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The Pocket Guide To Health Promotion.

The 'Pocket Guide to Health Promotion' is a short, punchy and practical guide to health promotion aimed at students and practitioners.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Laverack, Glenn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Maidenhead : McGraw-Hill Education, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Pocket Guide toHealth Promotion; The Pocket Guideto Health Promotion; Dedication; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; Introduction; Part I Health promotion explained; 1 Health promotion in context; Health promotion defined; Declarations and statements of health promotion; Health promotion and public health; Health promotion and health education; Health promotion and the political context; Health promotion and the bureaucratic context; Health in All Policies; The role of the health promotion practitioner; Empowerment or behaviour change?; Key points of the chapter.
  • 2 Five useful concepts in health promotionAdvocacy ; Determinants of health; The social determinants of health; Empowerment; Power; Power-from-within ; Power-over; Power-with; Salutogenesis; 3 Five useful methods in health promotion; Asset-based community development ; Harm reduction ; Innovative communication technologies ; The Short Message Service; The World Wide Web; Lobbying; Counter-tactics by commercial and corporate interests; Moral suasion; The temperance movement ; Foot-binding in China ; Female genital mutilation ; Part II Health promotion programmes; 4 Programme management.
  • Programme management in health promotionLanguage and a reflexive practice ; The programme cycle; Budget considerations; Managers as enablers; Leadership skills in programme management; Professional competencies; Conflict resolution; The Aik Saath project ; Defining the issues of conflict ; Using an ethical approach in programme management; Programme sustainability; Key factors for programme sustainability; Engage communities to share priorities; Build community capacity; Mechanisms for flexible funding; Be creative to expand on successful initiatives; Key points of the chapter.
  • 5 Health promotion planningProgramme design considerations ; Programme time frame; Programme size ; Needs assessment ; Four categories of need; Mapping; Engaging large audiences; Whole-system planning ; Values summits ; Engaging smaller audiences; Asset mapping ; Six key community assets; Community asset mapping ; The Altogether Better project ; Grounded citizens' juries; PhotoVoice ; Top-down and bottom-up; Objective setting; Addressing obesity in the Polynesian population ; Parallel-tracking ; Key points of the chapter; 6 Strategy selection; The 'art and science' of health promotion.
  • Upstream and downstream Health promotion theory; Health promotion approaches; Choosing a strategic approach ; The medical approach; The educational approach; The behavioural/lifestyle approach; The lifespan approach ; The socio-environmental approach; The health inequalities agenda; The ecological approach; Identifying your partners; Paying attention to marginalisation; Health promotion settings; Health promoting hospitals; Health promoting schools; Health promoting workplaces; Healthy cities; Key points of the chapter; 7 Strategy implementation for individuals and groups.