Summary
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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.
Introduction
Introduction
This book is about improving people's health, though that might not appear obvious from the Contents pages. Unlike many books on promoting health, we start from the belief that health and illness are not primarily the result of individual choices or a genetic lottery, but of the social structures and economic interests which surround us. We also take the view that the health of each of us is intimately related to the health of all of us. Promoting public health, for us, therefore goes beyond encouraging ‘healthy lifestyles’, improving health care services or developing ‘healthy partnerships’ between different organizations, important though these may be. Fundamentally, we believe that the job of securing health for all must involve us in encouraging social changes which lead ...
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