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Health Promotion: Foundations for Practice by Jennie Naidoo, Jane Wills (Paperback, 2000)

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Author:Wills, Jane. Health Promotion: Foundations for Practice (Public Health and Health Promotion). Publisher:Elsevier Health Sciences. The feel-good place to buy books. We may have grown, but our mission has never changed.

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This book aims to provide a theoretical framework which is vital if health promoters are to be clear about their intentions and desired outcomes when they embark on interventions designed to promote health. It offers a foundation for practice which encourages students and practitioners to see the potential for health promotion in their work. The first edition achieved enormous popularity with both students and lecturers for its stimulating style and innovative presentation. The second edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect changes in health promotion theories, practice and policy, and still retains the clear, user-friendly approach which made it a standard textbook for this important topic All students and health care practitioners who have health promotion as a significant feature of their work will continue to find this book an invaluable and stimulating guide to current theory and practice in health promotion. Features: * New fully revised edition of established and popular textbook * Multi-disciplinary and inter-agency context of health promotion * Extensively illustrated * Two colour design featuring extensive student activities, questions, examples from practice and annotated further reading New to this edition: * New chapter on Public Health reflects the government's commitment towards the new public health and its importance for a range of health care professionals * New Section 3 ; Settings for Health Promotion reflects the focus of the World Health Organisation. Chapters on key settings including: * Workplaces * Schools * Neighbourhoods * Health services * Expanded topics: * Epidemiology * Recent advances in health promotion theory * Strategic planning