Foundations for health promotion / Jennie Naidoo, Jane Wills.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Bailliere Tindall, 2009.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xiii, 314 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780702029653 (pbk.) :
- 0702029653 (pbk.) :
- At head of title: Public health and health promotion practice
- 613 22
- RA427.8 .N35 2009
Formerly CIP. Uk
Rev. ed. of: Health promotion / Jennie Naidoo, Jane Wills. 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Concepts of health -- Influences on health -- Measuring health -- Defining health promotion -- Models and approaches to health promotion -- Ethical issues in health promotion -- The politics of health promotion -- Reorienting health services -- Developing personal skills -- Strengthening community action -- Developing healthy public policy -- Using media in health promotion -- Health promotion in schools -- Health promotion in the workplace -- Health promotion in neighbourhoods -- Health promotion in primary care and hospitals -- Health promotion in prisons -- Assessing health needs -- Planning health promotion interventions -- Evaluation in health promotion.
Fully revised and updated, this book offers a foundation for practice that encourages students and practitioners to identify opportunities for health promotion in their area of work.
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