Contributors from around the world share their experiences and expertise about diverse health promotion issues, pointing out areas needing adjustment in community implementation both on an international and domestic level.
Contributors from around the world share their experiences and expertise about diverse health promotion issues, pointing out areas needing adjustment in community implementation both on an international and domestic level.
Contributors from around the world share their experiences and expertise about diverse health promotion issues, pointing out areas needing adjustment in community implementation both on an international and domestic level.
Containing the necessary guidance and tools for a career in health promotion, this text combines an introduction to the practice of health promotion with an overview of the practice in its varied settings such as schools, medical facilities, workplace and community.
1. School based health promotion as a complex assemblage -- 2. Rationality and risk : limits and possibilities -- 3. Engaging emotions, exploring values, mobilising rationality -- 4. 'Do, then talk' : young people, group work and the making of meaning -- 5. 'What happened was th…
Health promotion with young people has largely been framed by theories of behaviour change to target 'unsafe', 'unhealthy' and/or 'risky' behaviours. These theories and models seek to encourage the development in young people of reasoned, rational and risk-aware personal strateg…
Health promotion with young people has largely been framed by theories of behaviour change to target ùnsafe', ùnhealthy' and/or r̀isky' behaviours. These theories and models seek to encourage the development in young people of reasoned, rational and risk-aware personal strategies…
How eliminating "risk illiteracy" among doctors and patients will lead to better health care decision making.
« Weight stigma is so pervasive in our culture that it is often unnoticed, along with the harm that it causes. Health care is rife with anti-fat bias and discrimination against fat people, which compromises care and influences the training of new practitioners. This book explore…
"Weight stigma is so pervasive in our culture that it is often unnoticed, along with the harm that it causes. Health care is rife with anti-fat bias and discrimination against fat people, which compromises care and influences the training of new practitioners. This book explores…
Gender and qualitative research
by Pilcher, Jane, Coffey, Amanda
fromCardiff papers in qualitative research
This work draws together contributions on the theme of gender. They all call on qualitative research methods and offer a variety of perspectives on masculinity and femininity. The book also provides a sociological picture of how research on gender contributes to understanding ge…
Health and Other Unassailable Values sets out to examine health as a core cultural value. Taking 'health', 'evidence' and 'ethics' as her primary themes, Bell explores the edifice that underpins contemporary conceptions of health and the transformations in how we understand it, …
Health and Other Unassailable Values sets out to examine health as a core cultural value. Taking h̀ealth', èvidence' and èthics' as her primary themes, Bell explores the edifice that underpins contemporary conceptions of health and the transformations in how we understand it, ass…
Examining health as a core cultural value, and taking 'health', 'evidence' and 'ethics' as her primary themes, Bell explores the edifice that underpins contemporary conceptions of health and the transformations in how we understand it, assess it and enact it. Although health, ev…