Debates and Dilemmas in Promoting Health: A Reader

✍ Scribed by Moyra Sidell, Linda Jones, Jeanne Katz, Alyson Peberdy (eds.)

Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Leaves: 387
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-7
Older people’s health: applying Antonovsky’s salutogenic paradigm....Pages 9-15
Tackling inequalities in health: extracts from the summary....Pages 16-23
The limits of lifestyle: re-assessing ‘fatalism’ in the popular culture of illness prevention....Pages 24-32
Health education as empowerment....Pages 33-42
The importance of social theory for health promotion: from description to reflexivity....Pages 43-53
Models of health: pervasive, persuasive and politically charged....Pages 54-63
Practice nursing and health promotion: a case study....Pages 64-73
Innovation diffusion and health education in schools....Pages 74-86
Counselling people affected by HIV and AIDS....Pages 87-98
Communicating across cultural boundaries....Pages 99-107
The social marketing imbroglio in health promotion....Pages 108-113
A case study of ethical issues in health promotion — mammography screening: the nurse’s position....Pages 114-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-125
Explaining the French paradox....Pages 127-132
Large outbreak of Salmonella enterica serotype paratyphi B infection caused by goats’ milk cheese, France, 1993: a case finding epidemiological study....Pages 133-142
Epidemiology — to be taken with care....Pages 143-155
Job-loss and family morbidity: a study of a factory closure....Pages 156-168
Health education and health promotion: planning for the 1990s....Pages 169-176
Randomised controlled trial assessing effectiveness of health education leaflets in reducing incidence of sunburn....Pages 177-180
Is prevention better than cure?....Pages 181-189
Front Matter....Pages 123-125
The efficacy of health promotion, health economics and late modernism....Pages 190-199
Towards a critical approach to evaluation....Pages 200-205
Front Matter....Pages 207-208
An international perspective on primary health care....Pages 209-216
Addressing the contradictions: health promotion and community health action on the United Kingdom....Pages 217-226
Pedagogy of the oppressed: an extract....Pages 227-233
Evaluation in community development for health: an opportunity for dialogue....Pages 234-241
How community preferences can more effectively shape equity policy....Pages 242-248
Developing health promotion strategies with Black and minority ethnic communities which address social inequalities....Pages 249-259
Econology: integrating health and sustainable development. Guiding principles for decision-making....Pages 260-270
Using sponsorship to create healthy environments for sport, racing and arts venues in Western Australia....Pages 271-283
An ‘insider’ looking out: the politics of physical activity in England....Pages 284-293
Front Matter....Pages 295-296
Lifestyle, public health and paternalism....Pages 297-305
The at-risk health status and technology: a diagnostic invitation and the ‘gift’ of knowing....Pages 306-313
Surveillance, health promotion and the formation of a risk identity....Pages 314-324
The mass media is dead: long live multimedia....Pages 325-332
Gendering health: men, women and wellbeing....Pages 333-343
Think globally, act locally....Pages 344-352
Healthy cities: a modern problem or a post-modern solution....Pages 353-362
Health promotion as an investment strategy: a perspective for the 21st century....Pages 363-369
Back Matter....Pages 371-382

✦ Subjects

Public Health; Medicine/Public Health, general

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