Health Promotion Settings: Principles and Practice
Angela Scriven
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Description for Health Promotion Settings: Principles and Practice
Paperback. Working with an international team of academics, professionals and experts, Angela Scriven and Margaret Hodgins have edited this up to date, unique book on the increasingly important settings approach to health promotion. Editor(s): Scriven, Angela; Hodgins, Margaret. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: MBNH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 171 x 16. Weight in Grams: 528.
Health Promotion Settings combines the theoretical discourse of the settings approach, covering a wide range of fundamental principles, concepts and policy issues, with real life examples of settings, including workplaces, schools, neighbourhood, cities and prisons. Frameworks and processes that are actively shaping health promotion in settings in the 21st Century are documented and the ideas and research covered will provide a vital set of indicators for those who promote health in settings. Combining theory with practical examples and case studies, the authors show how a settings approach can work in practice, drawing on a range of local, national and international ... Read more
Health Promotion Settings combines the theoretical discourse of the settings approach, covering a wide range of fundamental principles, concepts and policy issues, with real life examples of settings, including workplaces, schools, neighbourhood, cities and prisons. Frameworks and processes that are actively shaping health promotion in settings in the 21st Century are documented and the ideas and research covered will provide a vital set of indicators for those who promote health in settings. Combining theory with practical examples and case studies, the authors show how a settings approach can work in practice, drawing on a range of local, national and international ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
506g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857025463
SKU
V9780857025463
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Reviews for Health Promotion Settings: Principles and Practice
′This text provides a comprehensive overview of current thinking on the theory and practice of a settings approach to health promotion. This book will be a valuable resource for practitioners and students of health promotion and public health′ - Margaret Barry, Professor of Health Promotion and Public Health, National University of Ireland Galway