Description
It explores the wider significance of contemporary health promotion through its embrace of political ideas such as empowerment, participation, advocacy and social inclusion
It shows, through examples of contemporary projects, how health promotion can have an impact on civic society, social norms and values beyond its immediate health focus
Provides new perspective on the fundamental links between heath and social equality
Table of Contents
b1. Ancient Epistemological Bases for Health Promotion 2. The Development of Modern Health Promotion 3. The Idea of 'Participation' in Health Research and Evaluation 4. Participation and Empowerment in Community Care 5. Social Inclusion and Inequalities in Health 6. Promoting Children's Mental Health 7. Zimbabweans in England: Building Capacity for Culturally Competent Health Promotion 8. Contested Macroeconomic Policy as Health Policy: The World Bank in Ukraine 9. Understanding Workplace Health Promotion 10. Health Promotion and Alternative Medicine 11. The Growing Social Significance of Health Promotion in Twentieth Century Scotland 12. Valuing 'Lay' and Practitioner Knowledge in Evaluation: The Role of Participatory Evaluation in Health Promotion
