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Health Promotion: A Psychosocial Approach

Health Promotion: A Psychosocial Approach

9780335222094
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Stephens important and timely book provides an urgently needed and insightful synthesis of the previously fragmented field of community health psychology. A wide range of case material from both rich and poor countries is framed within a skilfully articulated set of debates around core issues of theory, practice, research and ethics. This text should be compulsory reading for all practitioners and students of health promotion.
Professor Catherine Campbell, Health, Community and Development Group, London School of Economics

  • Can the health of individuals be improved through community health programmes?
  • How can community health promotion programmes be more effective?
  • How is health awareness measured and evaluated?
In recent years, health promoters have focused their attention not just on individual lifestyle change, but on daily social and physical conditions that surround the individual. They are now looking towards lifestyle change based on community or socially-based interventions.

This book argues for the importance of theoretical explanations that inform investigations of the social context of daily life, the social relations that affect opportunities for healthy lives, and the needs of communities. Examining theories from a critical and values oriented perspective, it looks at current theories of health and health promotion, and discusses why health inequalities exist.

The book includes a practical grounding, using examples of community health promotion practice, such as community arts and local community models, based on material and research from Britain, New Zealand, Canada, the USA and South America. The medias role in health promotion is also investigated, drawing on current media theory and examining media representation and the publics interpretative response. Issues surrounding the evaluation of health promotion programmes are also discussed.

Health Promotion:: A Psychosocial Approach provides a critical and theoretical basis for practice in social and community approaches to health promotion. It is key reading for postgraduate students of health psychology or community psychology, as well as qualified practitioners in public health areas who are developing theory based community programmes.

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Open University Press
49585
9780335222094
9780335222094

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Publication date
2008
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
256
Dimensions (mm)
155 x 236
Weight (g)
525

  • Introduction

    Chapter 1. Health and Health Promotion as Social Practice
    Chapter 2. Issues in Health Promotion
    Chapter 3. Social Inequalities and Health
    Chapter 4. Psychological and Social Explanations for Health
    Chapter 5. Conducting Community Health Research
    Chapter 6. Theories and Models for Community Health Promotion
    Chapter 7. Socially Based Interventions and Programmes
    Chapter 8. Evaluation of Health Promotion Programmes

    Conclusion
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