Robin Bunton / Gordon Macdonald (eds.)

Health Promotion

Disciplines and Diversity
Herausgeber: Bunton, Robin; Macdonald, Gordon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive introduction to the interdisciplinary nature of the field of health promotion has been completely updated to reflect national and international developments. As in the original collection, each chapter outlines and illustrates examples of each disciplinary contribution to the field. In addition, four new chapters cover community development, politics and advocacy, ethics, and the new genetics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 160mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9780415235693
• ISBN-10: 0415235693
• Artikelnr.: 21052341

Autorenporträt

Robin Bunton (University of Teesside, UK) (Edited by) , Gordon MacDonald (University of Glamorgan, UK) (Edited by)

Inhaltsangabe

1. Disciplinary and Discourse Developments for the New Millennium Section
One; Primary Disciplines 2. Psychology and Health Promotion 3. What is the
Relevance of Sociology for Health Promotion? 4. Epidemiology and Health
Promotion 5. The Contribution of Education to Health Promotion Section Two;
Other Disciplinary Contributions 6. Politics, Advocacy and Health Promotion
7. Health Promotion as Social Policy 8. Community Development for Health
and Health Promotion 9. Using Economics in Health Promotion 10.
Communication Theory and Health Promotion 11. Social Marketing and Health
Promotion Section Three; Reflections and Developments 12. The Growth of
Health Promotion Theory and its Rational Reconstruction: Lessons from the
Philosophy of Science 13. The New Genetics and the Implication for Health
Promotion 14. Ethics as a Science to Aid Decision Making in Health
Promotion