Debates and dilemmas in promoting health : a reader / edited by Moyra Sidell ... [et al.].
Material type: TextPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xii, 440 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781403902283 (pbk.) :
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- RA427.8
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Previous ed.: Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
Published in association with The Open University.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
SECTION 1: Key issues in health and health promotion:- Introduction -- 1.The cycle of conflict: the history of the public health and health promotion movements-- 2.The challenges of health inequalities-- 3.Older people\'s health: applying Antonovsky\'s salutogenic paradigm-- 4. Social capital and health promotion-- 5.The importance of social theory for health promtion: from descriptioin to reflexivity-- 6.Models of health: pervasive, persuasive and politically charged-- 7. Planning and delivering health promotion: integration challenges -- 8.The limits of lifestyle: re-assessing \'fatalism\' in the popular culture of illness prevention -- 9. An empowerment model for health promotion-- 10. Counselling people living with HIV/AIDS-- 11. More than words: dialogue across difference-- 12. The social marketing imbroglio in health promotion-- SECTION 2: Questioning the evidence base of health promotion: introduction -- 13.Epidemiology: to be taken with care -- 14. Explaining the French paradox -- 15. Job-loss and family morbidity: a study of a factory closure -- 16. What counts as evidence: issues and debates-- 17. Is prevention better than cure?-- 18. The efficacy of health promotion, health economics and late modernism -- 19. Towards a critical approach to evaluation -- 20. A case study of ethical issues in health promotion - mammography screening: the nurse\'s position -- SECTION 3: Promoting health in a wider context. Introduction -- 21.The changing global context of public health -- 22. Pedagogy of the oppressed: an extract-- 23. Addressing the contradictions: health promotion and community health action in the United Kingdom -- 24. Dialogical evaluation and health projects: a discourse of change -- 25.User movements, community development and health promotion -- 26. Promoting health with black and minority ethnic communities: developing strategies to address social inequalities and social exclusion -- 27. Econology: integrating health and sustainable development. Guiding principles for decision-making -- 28. Using sponsorship to create health environments for sport, racing and arts venues in Western Australia-- 29. Can the health sector influence transport planning for better health? -- 30. Crime is a public health problem-- SECTION 4: Looking forward - dilemmas in health promotion: introduction -- 31.Lifestyle, public health and paternalism-- 32. Suveillance, health promotion and the formation of a risk identity -- 33. Consumer helath information-seeking on the Internet: the state of the art -- 34. Gendering health: men, women and wellbeing -- 35. The future of the health-promoting school -- 36. Think globally, act locally -- 37. From healthy cities to locality based initiatives: margin to mainstram -- 38. Health promotion as an investment strategy: a perspective for the twenty-first century.
This accessible edition addresses the fundamental debates surrounding health promotion as well as exploring new horizons and raising controversial issues.