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`A very interesting melange of descriptive material - in the form of case studies - and more analytical and conceptual pieces covering the broad span of the health and well-being agenda' - Health Matters Promoting Health provides an up-to-date and accessible introduction to current health promotion and public health developments in the UK. The text provides both an outline of health promotion theory and draws on the experience of practitioners to demonstrate health promotion practice and provide students, policymakers and practitioners with practical and theoretical inspiration. Promoting Health: - shows clearly the links between health promotion theory and practice, by featuring a range of practical case studies - includes short papers on key issues within health promotion - provides a British focus on health promotion but within an international context This highly accessible volume seeks to present views of health promotion from a materialist perspective - a view widely shared in practice, but not previously explored fully within the literature.
The Cycle of Conflict: The History of the Public Health and Health Promotion Movements
The Cycle of Conflict: The History of the Public Health and Health Promotion Movements
Although the immediate sources of both health promotion and the ‘New Public Health’ are located in the 1970s, many of the ideas associated with these movements have much deeper roots. This short review sets the development of health promotion and the ‘New Public Health’ in a wider historical framework. Although we are concerned mainly with the UK, the key features are common to many other national contexts. Most histories of the development of public health, and more recently of health promotion, fail to acknowledge that while methods and motivations may vary, co-ordinated community action to ensure ...
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