The Social Significance of Health Promotion
by MacDonald, Theodore H.Pub. Date: 2004-04-02
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary
The Social Significance of Health Promotion sets out the long and fertile history of health promotion and delineates its contemporary role. It explores the potential of health promotion to impact on our social values and sense of community.
Table of Contents
| List of tables | p. ix |
| Notes on contributors | p. x |
| Preface | p. xv |
| Acknowledgements | p. xviii |
| Ancient epistemological bases for health promotion | p. 1 |
| The development of modern health promotion | p. 18 |
| The idea of 'participation' in health research and evaluation | p. 29 |
| Participation and empowerment in community care | p. 43 |
| Social inclusion and inequalities in health | p. 66 |
| Promoting children's mental health: developmental and ecological approaches to intervention | p. 88 |
| Zimbabweans in England: building capacity for culturally competent health promotion | p. 111 |
| Contested macroeconomic policy as health policy: the World Bank in Ukraine | p. 122 |
| Understanding workplace health promotion: programme development and evaluation for the small business sector | p. 139 |
| Health promotion and alternative medicine | p. 162 |
| The growing social significance of health promotion in twentieth-century Scotland | p. 183 |
| Valuing 'lay' and practitioner knowledge in evaluation: the role of participatory evaluation in health promotion | p. 204 |
| Index | p. 225 |
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