Health Promotion: Planning & Strategies - Couverture souple

Green, Jackie; Tones, Keith; Cross, Ruth; Woodall, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1446294005 ISBN 13 : 9781446294000

Editeur : Sage Publications Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

The definitive text on health promotion, this book covers both the knowledge-base and the process of planning, implementing and evaluating successful health promotion programmes.

This new edition features a companion website developed with an international team of contributors to support teaching and enhance learning. The website provides:

· 14 new and original international case studies of health promotion in action

· Example discussion questions to encourage critical reflection in seminars and assessments

· Free SAGE journal articles which support evidence-based learning.

Recent developments are covered throughout this third edition on topics such as asset-based approaches, mental health promotion and the use of social media in promoting health.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Ruth is Course Director for Health Promotion at Leeds Beckett University.  Ruth teaches on a range of modules including health communication, global health and health promotion as well as supervising post-graduate and doctoral research. 

She has been involved in many projects with the Centre for Health Promotion Research including research into health and wellbeing with vulnerable groups and has led several pedagogical research projects into teaching and learning practice.

Ruth has written many papers for peer-reviewed journal and published twelve textbooks with colleagues including, in 2024, Health Promotion: Planning and Strategies 5^th Ed; Health Promotion Ethics: A Framework for Social Justice; and Health Promotion & Health Education in Nursing and the monograph ‘What is Health?’.

James Woodall is a Senior Lecturer and the Co-Director of the Centre for Health Promotion Research. He is also the Course Leader for the MSc Public Health – Health Promotion programme (UK course). His research interest is offender health, particularly health promotion in prison settings. He completed his PhD in 2010, which examined the health promoting prison and how values central to the health promotion discourse are applied to the context of imprisonment. He has since published a number of peer-reviewed articles based on his PhD. He has also published work on young offenders and mental health, the role of prison visitors′ centres for supporting prisoners′ families and research exploring prisoners′ lay views on health. He continues to focus his research attention on the health of the prison population. As Co-Director of the Centre for Health Promotion Research, he is also involved in broader health promotion research projects such as oral health promotion and men′s health research. He currently teaches on the MSc Public Health – Health Promotion programme and contributes to other undergraduate and postgraduate areas in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sage Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1446294005
• ISBN 13: 9781446294000
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 640
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible