Health promotion : ideology, discipline, and specialism / John Kemm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kemm, J. R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health promotion--Great Britain.

Health promotion.

Health promotion--Government policy--Great Britain.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text is an exploration of the theoretical and practical difficulties that the field of health promotion faces and how it might develop in the future. It argues that health promotion has a vital contribution to make to the health of populations.

Contents:

Cover

Preface

Contents

1 Introduction: mapping the issues

2 A history of health promotion

3 Evidence for health promotion

4 The determinants of health

5 Assessing need and planning

6 What governments can do

7 Supporting individual behaviour change

8 Health education

9 Ethics of health promotion

10 The wider public health workforce

11 Health promotion specialists

12 Settings

13 Community development

14 Social marketing

15 Changing lifestyles with health promotion: some examples

16 Evaluation

17 Partnership and influencing people and organizations

18 The way forward

Author index

Subject index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-178227-0

0-19-102334-5

OCLC:

953456560