Researching Health Promotion

✍ Scribed by J. Watson

• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 296
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Providing a critical review of the current state of health promotion research. This book re-conceptualises the field of health promotion as collaborative and integrating enterprise, rather than as a battlefield for disciplinary and intellectual clashes. It makes a significant contribution to ongoing epistemological, theoretical and methodological debates in health promotion research. With contributors from Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland, the UK and the US, Researching Health Promotion will be of interest to students and professionals working in health promotion, public health, medicine and health policy.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 10
Notes on contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Connecting policy and practice: the challenge for health promotion research......Page 18
Fresh thinking......Page 38
Repositioning health promotion: research implications......Page 40
Think globally, act locally: what are the implications for health promotion and research?......Page 55
A critical approach to lifestyle and health......Page 71
Methodological challenges......Page 96
Postmodernism and health promotion: implications for the debate on effectiveness......Page 100
Evidence and the evaluation of a community-level intervention: researching the Gay Men's Task Force initiative......Page 119
Implementation of health promotion policy in Norwegian municipalities......Page 142
Does health economics do health promotion justice?......Page 159
Good practice......Page 174
The creation of gendered spaces as a medium for sexual health promotion among young people in Peru......Page 178
A theoretically based, cross-cultural study of infant feeding in new mothers and their partners......Page 200
Peer-led HIV prevention among gay men in London (the 4 gym project): intervention and evaluation......Page 224
Falling on deaf ears? Responses to health education messages from the Birmingham Untreated Heavy Drinkers Cohort......Page 248
Older people's perceptions about health behaviours overtime in Ireland: implications for health promotion......Page 271
Index......Page 287