Health Behaviour and Health Promotion in a Public Health Psychology: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Findings: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Findings - Couverture souple

Von Lengerke, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 363137464X ISBN 13 : 9783631374641

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, 2001

Synopsis

Health psychology is frequently described as behaviour-oriented, public health as system-oriented. This study examines how political participation and health behaviour of individuals on one hand and system behaviour in terms of healthy policy on the other may represent common issues to the two fields. Theoretically it refers to social ecology and health promotion approaches such as community psychology and WHO's Ottawa Charter. Empirically, data gathered within the EU-Biomed2-Project MAREPS in population and policymaker surveys in Belgium, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland are analysed. Besides political participation, results relate to breast cancer early detection, smoking prevention, and physical activity promotion. It is concluded that the co-production of health by policymakers and populations calls for analysis and evaluation of contextual factors for health behaviour and multilevel health promotion action within a public health psychology.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Author : Thomas von Lengerke was born in Herford/Westphalia (Germany) in 1966. After studying psychology at the University of Heidelberg and the Free University of Berlin, where he graduated in 1993, he worked as a graduate student and scientific associate in several health psychology and public health re-search projects, attaining his doctoral degree at the Chemnitz University of Technology in 2000.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang AG
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 363137464X
• ISBN 13: 9783631374641
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: GPSR Kontakt; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne