Health promotion in action : from local to global empowerment / Ronald Labonté, Glenn Laverack ; with a foreword by Fran Baum.

By:

Labonte, Ronald N

Contributor(s):

Laverack, Glenn

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2008.Description: xvii, 215 p. : ill. ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780230007222 (hbk.) :

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DDC classification:

362.1 22

LOC classification:

RA427.8 .L28 2008

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Contents:

Health promotion : concepts and context -- Health promotion practice : power, empowerment and the social determinants of health -- Pathways to local empowerment -- Working to build empowerment : the local challenge -- Pathways from the local to the global -- Working to build empowerment : the global challenge -- Glocalisation : health promotion's next grand challenge?

Summary: Globalisation is reshaping the field of health promotion practice and this book explores how practitioners are responding to these new challenges.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-203) and index.

Globalisation is reshaping the field of health promotion practice and this book explores how practitioners are responding to these new challenges.

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