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Foreword | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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How to use this book | |
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Checklist for public health and health promotion practice | |
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The Theory of Health Promotion | |
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Concepts of health | |
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Defining health | |
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Western scientific medical model | |
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Critique of the medical model | |
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The role of medicine | |
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Lay health beliefs | |
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Cultural health beliefs | |
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Influences on health | |
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Factors influencing health | |
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Social class and health | |
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Gender and health | |
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Ethnicity and health | |
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Effects of income, housing and employment on health | |
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Social cohesion | |
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Explanations for health inequalities | |
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Measuring health | |
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Sources of health information | |
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Mortality rates | |
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Morbidity rates | |
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Objective health measures | |
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Measuring deprivation | |
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Subjective health measures | |
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Epidemiology and health promotion | |
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Defining health promotion | |
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The development of health promotion | |
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Definitions of health education and health promotion | |
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Definition of public health | |
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The role of the World Health Organization | |
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Models and approaches to health promotion | |
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Different approaches to health promotion | |
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Aspects of these approaches | |
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The importance of theory in health promotion | |
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Different models of health promotion | |
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Ethical issues in health promotion | |
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The philosophy of health promotion | |
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Duties in health promotion | |
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The individual and the common good | |
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Ethical principles | |
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The politics of health promotion | |
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Political ideologies | |
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Politics and globalization | |
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Politics of health promotion structures | |
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Politics of health promotion methods | |
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Politics of health promotion content | |
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Radical health promotion | |
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Strategies & Methods | |
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Developing personal skills | |
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The role of beliefs, attitudes and values in health-related decisions | |
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The influence of social norms on health behaviour | |
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The concept of locus of control | |
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Health promotion strategies to change attitudes or behaviour | |
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Strengthening community action | |
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Defining community development | |
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Community development in health promotion | |
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Working with a community development approach | |
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Community development activities | |
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Dilemmas for practice | |
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Using media in health promotion | |
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Nature of media effects | |
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Role of mass media | |
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Using mass media | |
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Planned campaigns | |
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Unpaid coverage | |
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Media advocacy | |
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Social marketing | |
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Effectiveness of mass media | |
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Communication tools | |
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Re-orienting health services | |
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Reasons for reorienting health services | |
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Principles | |
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Strategies | |
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Service provision | |
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Who promotes health | |
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Developing healthy public policy | |
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Defining healthy public policy (HPP) | |
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Advantages and drawbacks to using a HPP approach | |
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The history of HPP | |
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HPP at different levels - global, national and organisational | |
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The potential of HPP to promote health | |
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Resources and skills required for HPP | |
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The practitioner's role | |
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Evaluating the effectiveness of HPP | |
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Settings for Health Promotion | |
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Health promotion in schools | |
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The school setting | |
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Relationship between schools, education and health | |
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The context for health promotion in schools | |
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The health-promoting school | |
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Effectiveness of health promotion in schools | |
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Health promotion in the workplace | |
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The workplace setting | |
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Relationship between work and health | |
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Responsibility for workplace health | |
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Health promotion in the workplace | |
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Health promotion in neighbourhoods | |
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Definitions of neighbourhood | |
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Neighbourhoods as settings for health promotion | |
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Different aspects of neighbourhoods | |
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Evaluation of neighbourhood health promotion | |
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Health promotion in primary health care and hospitals | |
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The concept of a Health Promoting Hospital | |
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Promoting the health of patients | |
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Promoting the health of staff | |
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Hospitals and their community | |
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Hospitals as a health promoting organisation | |
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Health Promoting Hospital Movement | |
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Health promotion in prisons | |
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Prisons as a healthy setting | |
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Reasons for prioritising health promotion in prisons | |
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Barriers to using prisons as health promoting settings | |
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Interventions and evidence of their effectiveness | |
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Implementing Health Promotion | |
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Assessing health needs | |
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Concepts of need | |
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Needs assessment strategies | |
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Relating needs to strategic planning | |
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Problems in assessing needs | |
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Planning health promotion interventions | |
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Systematic planning and its advantages | |
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Different planning models | |
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Quality and audit | |
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Evaluating health promotion | |
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Defining evaluation | |
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Why evaluate | |
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What to evaluate | |
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How to evaluate | |
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Cost-effectiveness | |
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Using evaluation to build an evidence base for health promotion | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |