Quality, evidence, and effectiveness in health promotion : striving for certainties / edited by John Kenneth Davies and Gordon Macdonald.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Reflection and vision : proving and improving the promotion of health -- pt. 1. Methods for assessing evidence and effectiveness. Reviewing the evidence for health promotion in the United States -- Evaluating health promotion in four key settings -- Measuring effectiveness in community-based health promotion -- pt. 2. Methods for assessing quality. A quality assurance instrument for practitioners : an example from Sweden -- The development of two instruments to measure the quality of health promotion interventions -- Quality assessment in health promotion settings -- pt. 3. Approaches to synergism. Paradigms, values and quality criteria in health promotion : an application to primary health care -- Quality measures and evaluation of Healthy City policy initiatives : the Liverpool experience -- Quality and effectiveness : international perspectives -- Beyond uncertainty : leading health promotion into the twenty-first century.