Health Education and Promotion

Critically engaging with the concept of power and opening up the debate about the relevance and effectiveness of contemporary understandings of empowerment to promote health, this book offers a new framework for understanding empowerment as it relates to young people’s own ideas of health...

Health promotion is an increasingly high profile aspect of a nurse’s role. This textbook explores how and why health promotion works in nursing, developing a new framework for understanding the nurse’s role and promoting evidence-based practice._x000D_..

The Psychology of Lifestyle reflects the current climate in health prevention by considering lifestyles and the inter-relationship of psychosocial concepts and theories that describe and explain people's often unhealthy behaviours. This unique book enables readers to develop a clear theoretical and ..

The Psychology of Lifestyle reflects the current climate in health prevention by considering lifestyles and the inter-relationship of psychosocial concepts and theories that describe and explain people's often unhealthy behaviours. This unique book enables readers to develop a clear theoretical and ..

Issues examined include: sociology of risk, the body, consumption, processes of surveillance and normalisation, race and gender in health programmes. Invaluable for students, health promotors, public health doctors and academics...

Issues examined include: sociology of risk, the body, consumption, processes of surveillance and normalisation, race and gender in health programmes. Invaluable for students, health promotors, public health doctors and academics...