Health Promotion
Philosophy, Prejudice and Practice
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Beschreibung
Incisively written, this new edition of a popular guide firstpublished in 1996 slices through the rhetoric of health promotion.Its penetrating analysis quickly reveals health promotion'sconceptual roots, providing an enlightening map of their web oftheory and practice.
David Seedhouse proves that health promotion, a disciplineintended to improve the health of a population, isprejudiced--every plan and every project stems first fromhuman values--and argues that only by acknowledging this willa mature discipline emerge. To help speed progress the authorproposes a positive, practical theory of health promotion destinedto inspire anyone who wishes to create better health.
This new edition includes three new chapters on conventionalhealth promotion, radical and foundational health promotion andmental health promotion, providing examples of the use offoundational health promotion. This new edition also adds fivenew teaching exercises, incorporates and updates the guide forteachers and lecturers and includes a new topical case study. Thisbook is laced with entertaining dialogues and readers areencouraged to explore ten carefully presented exercises.
Educational, accessible and intelligent, Health Promotion:Philosophy, Prejudice and Practice, 2nd Edition is a seminalwork which heralds the beginning of the end of healthpromotion's long adolescence. It is nothing less thanessential reading for all practitioners and students of healthpromotion.
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David Seedhouse
Themen in »Health Promotion«
Heilkunde Medical Science Medizin