Building Health Promotion Capacity - Action for Learning, Learning from Action

Explores the professional practice of health promotion and, in particular, how individuals and organizations can become more effective in undertaking and supporting such practice.

List of contents

Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

 

Part 1: Setting the Stage

1. Introduction: Action, Learning, and Capacity Building

2. Making the Building Health Promotion Capacity Project Happen

 

Part 2: Action for Learning

3. Understanding Health Promotion Capacity

4. Building Health Promotion Capacity

 

Part 3: Learning from Action

5. Building Health Promotion Capacity among Practitioners

6. Building Health Promotion Capacity in Organizations

7. The Environment and Health Promotion Capacity

 

Part 4: Conclusions

8. Reflections on Building Health Promotion Capacity

 

References

About the author

Scott McLean is Director of Continuing Education at the University of Calgary. Joan Feather recently retired as Coordinator of the Prairie Region Health Promotion Research Centre. David Butler-Jones is the first Chief Public Health Officer of Canada.

Summary

Explores the professional practice of health promotion and, in particular, how individuals and organizations can become more effective in undertaking and supporting such practice.

Product details

• Authors: David Butler-Jones, Joan Feather, Scott McLean
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2006
• EAN: 9780774811514
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-1151-4
• No. of pages: 152
• Weight: 210 g
• Illustrations: 11 b&w illustrations, 7 tables
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General