Naidoo, Jennie.

Health promotion : foundations for practice / Jennie Naidoo and Jane Wills. - London : Baillière Tindall, 1994. - xii, 304p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

Section 1:The theory of health promotion:- 1. Concepts of health -- 2. Influences on health -- 3.Measuring health -- 4. The development of health education and health promotion -- 5. Models and approaches to health promotion -- Section 2: Dilemmas in practice:- 6. Ethical issues in health promotion -- 7.The politics of health promotion -- 8. Healthy alliances - working together -- 9.Working with communities and community development -- 10. Helping people to change -- Section 3: Working for health promotion :- 11. Assessing needs -- 12. Planning health promotion interventions -- 13. Implementing health promotion -- Part I. Health promotion in schools -- Part 2.Health promotion in the workplace -- Part 3. Health promotion in primary health care -- Part 4. Using the mass media in health promotion -- 14. Evaluation in health promotion.

Relevant to the range of professional roles and settings in which health promotion takes place, this book reflects current policy context within the health service, and encourages critical evaluation and debate of issues and dilemmas through use of activities, examples and discussions questions.

9780702016806 (pbk) : £13.95 0702016802 (alk. paper)


Primary health care--Great Britain
Public health--Great Britain
Medical care--Great Britain
Health education--Great Britain
Community nursing
Health systems & services
Personal & public health
Health Promotion--methods

Health Great Britain

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