Health Promotion

by Bunton, Robin; MacDonald, Gordon

• ISBN13: 9780415059817
• ISBN10: 041505981X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-07-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
List of contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Health promotion: Disciplinary developments	p. 9
Primary disciplines	p. 29
Psychology and health promotion	p. 31
What is the relevance of sociology for health promotion?	p. 53
Epidemiology and health promotion: a common understanding	p. 80
The contribution of education to health promotion	p. 102
Secondary disciplines	p. 127
Health promotion as social policy	p. 129
Health promotion and the politics of integration	p. 158
Using economics in health promotion	p. 178
Communication theory and health promotion	p. 197
Social marketing and health promotion	p. 219
Reflections and developments	p. 247
Health promotion theory and its rational reconstruction: lessons from the philosophy of science	p. 249
Introducing ethics to health promotion	p. 271
The new genetics and health promotion	p. 284
Glossary of terms	p. 302
Index	p. 315
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