Health Promotion : Foundations for Practice Book

Introduction; Section 1; the theory of Health Promotion; concepts of Health; Influences on health; Measuring health; Defining health promotion; Models and approaches to health promotion; Ethical Issues in health promotion; the politics of health promotion. Section 2: Strategies and Methods; Partnerships for health-working together; Public health work; working with communities and community development; Helping people to change using the mass media in health promotion. Sections 3: Settings for Health Promotion: Health promotion in the workplace; Helath promotion in schools; Health promotion in primary healthcare and hospitals. Section 4: Working for Health Promotion: Assessing health needs; Planning health promotion interventions; Evaluation in health promotion.