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Health promotion : disciplines, diversity, and developments / edited by Robin Bunton and Gordon Macdonald.
Van Pelt Library RA427.8 .H497 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health promotion.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 325 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
- Summary:
- This comprehensive introduction to the interdisciplinary nature of the field of health promotion has been completely updated to reflect national and international developments. As in the original collection, each chapter outlines and illustrates examples of each disciplinary contribution to the field. In addition, four new chapters cover community development, politics and advocacy, ethics, and the new genetics.
- Contents:
- Health promotion, disciplinary developments / Gordon MacDonald and Robin Bunton
- Psychology and health promotion / Simon Murphy and Paul Bennett
- What is the relevance of sociology for health promotion / Nicky Thorogood
- Epidemiology and health promotion / Andrew Tannahill
- Contribution of eduction to health promotion / Katherine Weare
- Health promotion as social policy / Robin Bunton
- Health promotion and the politics of integration / Dominic Harrison
- Using economics in health promotion / David Cohen and Janine Hale
- Communication theory and health promotion / Gordon MacDonald
- Social marketing and health promotion / Craig Lefebvre
- Health promotion theory and its rational construction / Don Rawson
- Introducing ethics to health promotion / Alan Cribb and Peter Duncan
- New genetics and health promotion / Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Amanda Amos.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415235693
- 0415235707
- OCLC:
- 50403935
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