Public Health and Health Promotion: Developing Practice

by Jennie Naidoo BSc MSc PGDip PGCE (Author), Jane Wills BA MA MSc PGCE Professor (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $3.36

  The aim of this book is to identify the difficulties of working for health - a challenge which health service providers in the UK and elsewhere have to face and expect health care professionals to address. Professionals in this area are increasingly having to shift their attention from health promotion to the broader public health arena. To do this poses specific problems - linking theory and practice, identifying and evidence base and establishing guiding principles and values on which practice should be based. Since the publication of the first edition there has been a significant policy shift within the UK which makes this book even more important for an increasing number of health care professionals. In addition, the rise of evidence-based health care makes this book's focus on the dilemmas and challenges which underpin health promotion - where is the evidence and how is health promotion practice informed by it - even more timely. The new edition will continue the emphasis on examples from practitioners work which was popular in the first edition but will enhance this aspect by including a much wider range of case study material reflecting the diversity of health promotion practice. All the case studies will be accompanied by commentaries from the authors allowing the reader to see the relevance to their own practice.

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  Paperback
  1998

  $4.47

  Adopting the same readable and engaging style of their previous book, this text looks at the key challenges of health promotion practice and the problems practitioners face in translating theory and research into their practice. The text uses an innovative reflective approach, to encourage readers to use their own practice as a way of exploring HP theory and research. The book also includes contributions from practitioners exploring key areas of practice (Accidents, CHD, Mental Health, Sexual Health, Cancer) illustrating how theory and research can inform the development of evidence-based practice. Features: * Focuses on how theory and practice link in health promotion * Contributions from HP Practitioners illustrate practice issues * Reflection and discussion points, activities and case studies encourage critical response * Clearly written chapters explore and explain dilemmas and challenges in HP * Grounded in current practice while identifying how reader can work towards evidence-based Health Promotion practice