UID:
almafu_9958114594302883
Format:
1 online resource (296 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-60728-8
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9786610317684
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1-134-60729-6
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0-203-46194-0
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1-280-31768-X
Content:
Providing a critical review of the current state of health promotion research. This book re-conceptualises the field of health promotion as collaborative and integrating enterprise, rather than as a battlefield for disciplinary and intellectual clashes. It makes a significant contribution to ongoing epistemological, theoretical and methodological debates in health promotion research. With contributors from Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland, the UK and the US, Researching Health Promotion will be of interest to students and professionals working in health promotion, public heal
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Connecting policy and practice: the challenge for health promotion research; Fresh thinking; Repositioning health promotion: research implications; Think globally, act locally: what are the implications for health promotion and research?; A critical approach to lifestyle and health; Methodological challenges; Postmodernism and health promotion: implications for the debate on effectiveness; Evidence and the evaluation of a community-level intervention: researching the Gay Men's Task Force initiative
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Implementation of health promotion policy in Norwegian municipalitiesDoes health economics do health promotion justice?; Good practice; The creation of gendered spaces as a medium for sexual health promotion among young people in Peru; A theoretically based, cross-cultural study of infant feeding in new mothers and their partners; Peer-led HIV prevention among gay men in London (the 4 gym project): intervention and evaluation; Falling on deaf ears? Responses to health education messages from the Birmingham Untreated Heavy Drinkers Cohort
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Older people's perceptions about health behaviours overtime in Ireland: implications for health promotionIndex
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-21590-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-21591-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203461945
