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• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Part One. The theory of health promotion
• Introduction
• Chapter One. Concepts of health
• Importance of the Topic
• Defining health, well-being, disease, illness and ill health
• Well-being
• The Western scientific medical model of health
• A critique of the medical model
• Lay concepts of health
• Cultural views of health
• A unified view of health
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Chapter Two. Influences on health
• Importance of the Topic
• Determinants of health
• Social class and health
• Income and health
• Housing and health
• Employment and health
• Gender and health
• Health of ethnic minorities
• Place and health
• Explaining health inequalities
• Tackling inequalities in health
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Chapter Three. Measuring health
• Importance of the Topic
• Why measure health?
• Ways of measuring health
• Measuring health as a negative variable (e.g. health is not being diseased or ill)
• Mortality statistics
• Morbidity statistics
• Measuring health and disease in populations
• Measures of health as an objective attribute
• Measuring deprivation
• Subjective health measures
• Physical well-being, functional ability and health status
• Psychological well-being
• Social capital and social cohesion
• Quality of life
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Chapter Four. Defining health promotion
• Importance of the Topic
• Foundations of health promotion
• Origins of health promotion in the UK
• Public health
• The World Health Organization and health promotion
• Defining health promotion
• Critiques of health promotion
• The argument for health promotion
• Advocacy
• Enablement
• Mediation
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Chapter Five. Models and approaches to health promotion
• Importance of the Topic
• The medical approach
• Behaviour change
• The educational approach
• Empowerment
• Social change
• Models of health promotion
• Theories in health promotion
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Chapter Six. Ethical issues in health promotion
• Importance of the Topic
• The need for a philosophy of health promotion
• Duty and codes of practice
• Consequentialism and utilitarianism: The individual and the common good
• Ethical principles
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Chapter Seven. The politics of health promotion
• Importance of the Topic
• What is politics?
• Political ideologies
• Globalization
• Health as political
• The politics of health promotion structures and organization
• The politics of health promotion methods
• Being political
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Part Two. Strategies and methods
• Introduction
• Chapter Eight. Reorienting health services
• Importance of the Topic
• Introduction
• Promoting health in and through the health sector
• Primary healthcare and health promotion
• Primary healthcare principles
• Primary healthcare: strategies
• Primary healthcare: service provision
• Participation
• Equity
• Collaboration
• Who promotes health?
• Public health and health promotion workforce
• Specialist community public health nurses
• Mental health nurses
• School nurses
• Midwives
• General practitioners
• Practice nurses
• Dentists
• Pharmacists
• Environmental health workers
• Allied health workers
• Care workers
• Specialists
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Chapter Nine. Developing personal skills
• Importance of the Topic
• Definitions
• The health belief model
• Theory of reasoned action and theory of planned behaviour
• The stages of change model
• The prerequisites of change
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Chapter Ten. Strengthening community action
• Importance of the Topic
• Defining community
• Why work with communities?
• Approaches to strengthening community action
• Defining community development
• Community development and health promotion
• Working with a community-centred approach
• Types of activities involved in strengthening community action
• Dilemmas and challenges in community-centred practice
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Chapter Eleven. Developing healthy public policy
• Importance of the Topic
• Defining HPP
• Health in all policies (HiAP)
• Health impact assessment (HIA)
• The history of HPP
• Key characteristics of HPP: advantages and barriers
• The practitioner’s role in HPP
• Evaluating an HPP approach
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Chapter Twelve. Using media in health promotion
• Importance of the Topic
• Introduction
• The nature of media effects
• The role of mass media
• Planned campaigns
• Unpaid media coverage
• Media advocacy
• Social marketing
• What the mass media can and cannot do
• Communication tools
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Part Three. Settings for health promotion
• Introduction
• Chapter Thirteen. Health promoting schools
• Importance of the Topic
• Why the school is a key setting for health promotion
• Health promotion in schools
• The health promoting school
• Policies and practices
• Links with the community
• Effective interventions
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Chapter Fourteen. Health promoting workplaces
• Importance of the Topic
• Why is the workplace a key setting for health promotion?
• The relationship between work and health
• Responsibility for workplace health
• Health promotion in the workplace
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Chapter Fifteen. Health promoting neighbourhoods
• Importance of the Topic
• Defining neighbourhoods
• Why neighbourhoods are a key setting for health promotion
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Chapter Sixteen. Health promoting health services
• Importance of the Topic
• Defining a health promoting hospital
• Why hospitals are a key setting for health promotion
• Promoting the health of patients
• Promoting the health of staff
• The hospital and the community
• Organizational health promotion
• The HPH movement
• Health promoting pharmacies
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Chapter Seventeen. Health promoting prisons
• Importance of the Topic
• Why prisons have been identified as a setting for health promotion
• Barriers to prisons as health promoting settings
• Health promoting prisons
• Examples of effective interventions
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Part Four. Implementing health promotion
• Introduction
• Chapter Eighteen. Assessing health needs
• Importance of the Topic
• Defining health needs
• The purpose of assessing health needs
• Health needs assessment
• Setting priorities
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Chapter Nineteen. Planning health promotion interventions
• Importance of the Topic
• Reasons for planning
• Health promotion planning cycle
• Strategic planning
• Project planning
• Planning models
• Stage 1: What is the nature of the problem?
• Stage 2: What needs to be done? Set aims and objectives
• Stage 3: Identify appropriate methods for achieving the objectives
• Stage 4: Identify resources and inputs
• Stage 5: Plan evaluation methods
• Stage 6: Set an action plan
• Stage 7: Action, or implementation of the plan
• Planning models
• PRECEDE-PROCEED model
• Quality and audit
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Chapter Twenty. Evaluating health promotion interventions
• Importance of the Topic
• Defining evaluation
• Why evaluate?
• What to evaluate
• Process, impact and outcome evaluation
• Evaluation research methodologies
• How to evaluate: The process of evaluation
• How to evaluate: Gathering and analysing data
• Building an evidence base for health promotion
• What to do with the evaluation: Putting the findings into practice
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Glossary
• Index