The social significance of health promotion / edited by Théodore H. MacDonald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

MacDonald, Theodore H. (Theodore Harney), 1933-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health promotion.

Health promotion--Social aspects.

Health planning--Social aspects.

Health planning.

Physical Description:

xvii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

"The Social Significance of Health Promotion" explores the potential of health promotion to impact on our social values and sense of community. Beginning with the historical context of health promotion addressed in terms of advocacy issues, this book moves on to present analyses of specific health promotion programs in which the contributors are actively engaged. These chapters take a practitioner's perspective and cover a wide range of issues such as social exclusion, children's mental health professional competency, the role of alternative health promotion in the workplace.

Contents:

1 Ancient epistemological bases for health promotion / Theodore H. Macdonald 1

2 The development of modern health promotion / Steven Bell 18

3 The idea of 'participation' in health research and evaluation / Conan Leavey 29

4 Participation and empowerment in community care / Rowena Vickridge, Rosie Ayub 43

5 Social inclusion and inequalities in health / Grahame D. Wright 66

6 Promoting children's mental health: developmental and ecological approaches to intervention / Karen Baistow 88

7 Zimbabweans in England: building capacity for culturally competent health promotion / Martha Chinouya 111

8 Contested macroeconomic policy as health policy: the World Bank in Ukraine / Eileen O'Keefe 122

9 Understanding workplace health promotion: programme development and evaluation for the small business sector / Lindsey Dugdill 139

10 Health promotion and alternative medicine / Linda Gibson 162

11 The growing social significance of health promotion in twentieth-century Scotland / David Player, Peter Murray 183

12 Valuing 'lay' and practitioner knowledge in evaluation: the role of participatory evaluation in health promotion / Jane Springett 204.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415301963

0415301971

OCLC:

50725209