Researching health promotion / edited by Jonathan Watson and Stephen Platt.

Annotation 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...

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Contributors: Watson, Jonathan, 1960- (Editor), Platt, Stephen (Editor)
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • Connecting policy and practice : the challenge for health promotion research / Jonathan Watson and Stephen Platt. pt. 1. Fresh thinking. Repositioning health promotion : research implications / Erio Ziglio
  • Think globally, act locally : what are the implications for health promotion and research? / Hilary Whent
  • Critical approach to lifestyle and health / Thomas Abel, William C. Cockerham, and Steffen Niemann. pt. 2. Methodological challenges. Postmodernism and health promotion : implications for the debate on effectiveness / Dale Webb and David Wright
  • Evidence and the evaluation of a community-level intervention : researching the Gay Men's Task Force initiative / Paul Flowers, Jamie Frankis, and Graham Hart
  • Implementation of health promotion policy in Norwegian municipalities / Elisabeth Fosse
  • Does health economics do health promotion justice? / Janine Hale. pt. 3. Good practice. Creation of gendered spaces as a medium for sexual health promotion among young people in Peru / Marcelo Ramella and Jennifer Attride-Stirling
  • Theoretically based, cross-cultural study of infant feeding in new mothers and their partners / Vivien Swanson and Kevin Power
  • Peer-led HIV prevention among gay men in London (the 4 gym project) : intervention and evaluation / Jonathan Elford [and others]
  • Falling on deaf ears? responses to health education messages from the Birmingham Untreated Heavy Drinkers Cohort / Cicely Kerr [and others]
  • Older people's perceptions about health behaviours over time in Ireland : implications for health promotion / Anne MacFarlane and Cecily Kelleher.