Promoting health : politics and practice / edited by Lee Adams, Mary Amos, James Munro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adams, Lee, 1952-

Amos, Mary.

Munro, James F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health promotion--Great Britain.

Health promotion.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xiii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2002.

Summary:

Promoting Health provides an up-to-date and accessible introduction to current health promotion and public health developments in the United Kingdom. The text offers an outline of health promotion theory drawing on the experience of practitioners to demonstrate health promotion practice and provide students, policy makers and practitioners with practical and theoretical inspiration.

Contents:

1 The Cycle of Conflict: The history of the public health and health promotion movements / Charles Webster, Jeff French 5

1.1 Practising Health For All in the UK / Maddy Halliday 13

1.2 Building a UK Public Health Movement: A phoenix from the ashes? / Geof Rayner 20

1.3 Promoting Social and Community Development in Sheffield: A reflection of ten years' work / Lee Adams, Frances Cunning 26

2 Sustainable Development and Health / Charles Secrett, Simon Bullock 34

2.1 Food and Health: national and international policy perspectives / Martin Caraher 46

2.2 Local Communities and Sustainable Regeneration in the East End of Sheffield / Sue Greig, Neil Parry 52

2.3 Environmental Justice / Eurig Scandrett 58

3 Community Development / Mary Amos 63

3.1 Theory, Opportunity, Serendipity: Community development in Sheffield / Martine Standish 72

3.2 User Movements, Community Development and Health Promotion / Marian Barnes 79

3.3 Community Development and Health Work in Northern Ireland: Context, history and development / Ruth Sutherland 84

4 Social Exclusion, Discrimination and the Promotion of Health / Maria Duggan 92

4.1 Anti-poverty Strategies / Pete Alcock 102

4.2 Disability and Public Health / Lorraine Gradwell 108

4.3 Women and Public Health / Sue Laughlin 113

5 Regeneration and Health / Hilary Russell 119

5.1 The Wakefield Health Action Zone: A case study in area-focused working / Lee Adams 131

5.2 Opportunities for Improving Health through Regeneration / Debs Harkins, Melissa Stead 139

5.3 Health and Local Food Initiatives / James Petts 144

6 Public Services and Health / Dexter Whitfield, James Munro 149

6.1 Education for Systems Change: A key resource for radical action on health / Alan Beattie 157

6.2 Public Services, Public Health and Health Promotion: The role of local authorities / Fiona Campbell 166

6.3 Citizens Advice Bureaux in Primary Care: A tool for staff to address social and economic inequalities / Judith Emanuel 173.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-202) and index.

ISBN:

0761968334

0761968342

OCLC:

47983595