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Health Promotion Author: Christine Stephens

ISBN: 9780335222087 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 256 Published: 13 November 2008 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 23.0 x 15.3 x 1.7 Description: ""Stephens' important and timely book provides an urgently needed and insightful synthesis of the previously fragmented field of community health psychology. A wide range of case material from both rich and poor countries is framed within a skilfully articulated set of debates around core issues of theory, practice, research and ethics. This text should be compulsory reading for all practitioners and students of health promotion." Professor Catherine Campbell, Health, Community and Development Group, London School of Economics"

Can the health of individuals be improved through community health programmes? How can community health promotion programmes be more effective? How is health awareness measured and evaluated? In recent years, health promoters have focused their attention not just on individual lifestyle change, but on daily social and physical conditions that surround the individual. They are now looking towards lifestyle change based on community or socially-based interventions.

This book argues for the importance of theoretical explanations that inform investigations of the social context of daily life, the socia...

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