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A complete one-stop-shop for any student of health promotion.
How to improve and protect public health is one of the biggest questions facing the 21st century and this book exists to help tackle it head on. Setting out the What, Why, When, Who, Where and How of health promotion across 20 bite-sized chapters. It explores the full range of theories, context and strategies that influence contemporary health promotion.
Key features:
Comprehensive coverage: all facets of health promotion introduced and explained
Combines the theoretical with the practical: knowledge blended with the key skills and attributes needed for effective health promotion
Extensive range of global case studies: read about the enormous range of possibilities and creative ways health promotion can be achieved
This is the ideal textbook for any undergraduate or pre-registration student starting their health promotion or public health journey. It provides a complete package of information that will lay the groundwork for your learning and future practice and will help you succeed with assignments, essays and exams.
List of contents
Chapter 1 - What is 'health'?
Chapter 2 - Health promotion: an historical overview
Chapter 3 - Health Promotion Approaches
Chapter 4 - The role of health promotion in tackling contemporary health challenges
Chapter 5 - Inequalities in health
Chapter 6 - The importance of health promotion values
Chapter 7 - Assessing Health Needs: Principles and Practice
Chapter 8 - Valuing Lay Perspectives
Chapter 9 - Understanding epidemiology and health profiling
Chapter 10 - The role of the individual
Chapter 11 - The role of the state
Chapter 12 - Partnership working
Chapter 13 - Settings approach: overarching theory
Chapter 14 - Healthy settings in action
Chapter 15 - Virtual settings for health
Chapter 16 - Professional competencies and core skills
Chapter 17 - Searching and appraising the evidence
Chapter 18 - Planning and designing health promotion programmes
Chapter 19 - Health promotion research and evaluation
Chapter 20 - Communicating effectively
About the author
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.
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 5th Ed; Health Promotion Ethics: A Framework for Social Justice; and Health Promotion & Health Education in Nursing and the monograph ‘What is Health?’.
Summary
A complete overview of the subject setting out the what, why, when, who, where and how of health promotion containing 20 bite-sized chapters that answer all the common questions.
Report
An invaluable text for pre-registration or undergraduate students. It includes key health promotion theory, roles and excellent case studies. Very accessible and easy to read. Written by international experts. Dr Michael C Watson 20220224
