Addressing the fundamental debates surrounding health promotion, this study explores new horizons and raises controversial issues. Containing analysis from practitioners, policy makers and academics, it teases out the exciting and sometimes difficult dilemmas facing those promoting health. Revised and updated to reflect changes in health promotion practice, policy and research, this book is the reader for the Open University course K301: Promoting Health: Skills, Perspectives and Practice. It should be of continued interest to all those committed to promoting health, especially those working in the health and social care fields.

This accessible edition addresses the fundamental debates surrounding health promotion as well as exploring new horizons and raising controversial issues.

Part. A. Theoretical background: Evolution and mutation in medical ethics - Mere words? problems of definition in medical ethics - From ethics to medical ethics - Origin of modern public health and preventive medicine - Why prevent disease? - Part. B. Policies and general problems: Personal and public health care: conflict, congruence or accomodation? - Life-style, public health and paternalism - Health lgislation, preventive and ethics - Value conflicts in social policies for promoting health - Health economics and ethics - Estimation of occupational risk. - Part C. Specific issues: Ethicals aspects of reproductive medicine - Promotion of child health - Mass screening procedures and programmes - Ethicals aspects of prevention trials - Organization of ethical control / Jean Martin - Mass communication media in health education.

The second edition of A Reader in Promoting Public Health brings together a selection of readings that explore and challenge current thinking in the field of multidisciplinary public health. This thoroughly updated and revised new edition addresses contemporary issues that are high on the agenda of public health, and enables the reader to understand and negotiate this broad and dynamic field of study. The book is organised into five sections, each with an accessible and student-friendly introduction that pulls together the key themes and issues: - Back to the future? Reflections on multidisciplinary public health takes stock of the scope and ambition of contemporary public health; - Research for evidence-based practice explores research methods, tools and techniques for developing effective public health practice; - Promoting health through public policy examines policy challenges, responses and key debates at national, international and global level : - Promoting public health at a local level explores public health and health promotion in a participatory and community context; - Public health for the 21st century: whose voices? whose values? examines debates which expose alternative futures, priorities and boundaries for public health work. This second edition includes new material on health inequalities, health protection, social marketing and health promotion, as well as highlighting the practical requirements of public health work through ′grass roots′ accounts of practice. It will be essential reading for all students of public health and health promotion, as well as for health and social care professionals.

This work is a critical reflection on the state of health promotion effectiveness in practice around the world. It examines the meaning of health promotion from regional perspectives, and explores regional strengths and weaknesses in demonstrating effectiveness. The book goes on to consider issues in public health such as tobacco, mental health, obesity, urbanization, war, and social determinants in order to assess the role of effectiveness, and to examine methodologies for demonstrating effectiveness. Finally, the book looks at questions over the effectiveness of health promotion – the debate about the relationship between evidence, impact, and outcomes.

Theory and Research in Promoting Public Health is an important text that addresses these questions, exploring the key concepts, debates, and issues involved in multi-disciplinary public health. The book considers the complex and diverse nature of public health and helps readers critically appraise the theories, research, and policies that inform multidisciplinary public health practice.

Produced for unit HNH649 (Health education and promotion) offered by the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences' School of Nursing in Deakin University's postgraduate Open Campus Program.

'Health Promotion' provides a critical and theoretical basis for practice in social and community approaches to health promotion.

This international handbook brings together researchers and teachers from 25 countries of the five continents to share their experiences of teaching health promotion in undergraduate and graduate courses related to different health professions. Chapter authors share teaching methodologies used in classes, discuss the competencies students need to learn and indicate research opportunities. Readers will be provided with real-world examples of empowering, participatory, holistic, intersectoral, equitable and sustainable teaching/learning strategies that aim to improve health and reduce health inequities. This handbook was edited by an editorial board formed by 12 members of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) from seven countries – Brazil, Belgium, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, Taiwan and UK –, and includes 45 chapters organized in seven thematic sections, each one dedicated to a different aspect of the process of teaching and learning health promotion: The health promotion curriculum Making health promotion relevant to practice Pedagogies for health promotion Special topics for health promotion Health promotion assessment and quality assurance Health promotion as a transformational practice Students’ reflections The International Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Health Promotion: Practices and Reflections from Around the World aims to encourage a dialogue between teaching and learning practices carried out locally and the possibilities of replicating these experiences globally, recognizing cultural differences and similarities. This handbook is intended for a wide range of readers, including education and training providers, health professionals and health care students. Due to its intersectoral and interdisciplinary approach, it will also be of interest to teachers and students in other fields of the Social Sciences, such as Urban Planning, Social Work, Public Policy, International Relations and Population Studies.