UID:
almafu_9958110740802883
Format:
1 online resource (238 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-68141-0
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1-134-68142-9
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0-203-26604-8
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1-280-33057-0
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0-203-06895-5
Content:
Quality, Evidence and Effectiveness is unique in bringing together, for the first time, the critical concepts of quality assurance and effectiveness in relation to health promotion and research.Contributions from leading health promotion specialists around the world discuss how best to push forward evidence of the value of health promotion as an effective investment strategy. They examine particular examples of health promotion interventions, focusing on both practical suggestions and the concepts underlying them.Contributions are divided into three core sections:* the exa
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Foreword ILONA KICKBUSCH; Preface JOHN KENNETH DAVIES AND GORDON MACDONALD; Introduction GORDON MACDONALD AND JOHN KENNETH DAVIES; Reflection and vision: proving and improving the promotion of health GORDON MACDONALD AND JOHN KENNETH DAVIES; Methods for assessing evidence and effectiveness; Reviewing the evidence for health promotion in the United States NOREEN M.CLARK AND KENNETH R.MCLEROY; Evaluating health promotion in four key settings CECILY KELLEHER
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Measuring effectiveness in community-based health promotion FRANCES BAUMMethods for assessing quality; A quality assurance instrument for practitioners: an example from Sweden BO J.A.HAGLUND, BJARNE JANSSON, BOSSE PETTERSSON AND PER TILLGREN; The development of two instruments to measure the quality of health promotion interventions JOLANDA F.E.M.KEIJSERS AND J.A.M.SAAN; Quality assessment in health promotion settings VIV SPELLER, LIZ ROGERS AND ANNETTE RUSHMERE; Approaches to synergism
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Paradigms, values and quality criteria in health promotion: an application to primary health care ALAIN DECCACHE AND JEAN LAPERCHEQuality measures and evaluation of Healthy City policy initiatives: the Liverpool experience JANE SPRINGETT; Quality and effectiveness: international perspectives IRVING ROOTMAN AND ERIO ZIGLIO; Beyond uncertainty: leading health promotion into the twenty-first century JOHN KENNETH DAVIES AND GORDON MACDONALD; Author index; Subject index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-17967-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-17966-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203068953
