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• About the authors
• Introduction
• Section 1: What is health promotion?
• 1 What is ‘health’?
• 2 Health promotion: a historical overview
• 3 Health promotion approaches
• Section 2: Why health promotion?
• 4 The role of health promotion in tackling contemporary health challenges
• 5 Inequalities in health
• 6 The importance of health promotion values
• Section 3: When is health promotion relevant?
• 7 Assessing health needs: principles and practice
• 8 Valuing lay perspectives
• 9 Understanding epidemiology and health profiling
• Section 4: Who is responsible for health promotion?
• 10 The role of the individual
• 11 The role of the state
• 12 Partnership working
• Section 5: Where is health promotion delivered?
• 13 Settings approach: overarching theory
• 14 Healthy settings in action
• 15 Virtual settings for health
• Section 6: How is health promotion practised?
• 16 Professional competencies and core skills
• 17 Searching and appraising the evidence
• 18 Planning and designing health promotion programmes
• 19 Health promotion research and evaluation
• 20 Communicating effectively
• References
• Index