Health Promotion by Jackie Green
Focuses on health promotion. This book covers both the knowledge-base and the process of health promotion at a level that lecturers say is perfect for specialist Health Promotion and Public Health courses.This essential text covers all the fundamental elements needed for any student undertaking a health promotion degreeIt will no doubt become a required resource for our health promotion teaching.
-- Dr Francine Watkins, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, University of Liverpool, UK
This is a well written, comprehensive health promotion textbook. It will support practitioners and students to underpin their practice with relevant theory.
-- Jane Goodman-Brown, Programme Lead for Public Health, Oxford Brookes University, UK
A wonderfully rich and accessible textbook on the key aspects of health promotion. Green, Tones, Cross and Woodall should be commended for their impressive contribution to the art and science of health promotion in contemporary society.
-- Jacqueline Gahagan, Professor of Health Promotion, Dalhousie University, Canada
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?’. 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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781446294000 |
| ISBN 10 | 1446294005 |
| Title | Health Promotion |
| Author | Jackie Green |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Sage Publications Ltd |
| Year published | 2015-01-22 |
| Number of pages | 640 |
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