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Promoting Health

Promoting Health

Lyn Talbot | Glenda Verrinder

(2010)

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Abstract

The new edition will provide readily accessible material for public health educators and practitioners, in a number of professions, who are increasingly being required to address the challenges emerging from the inter-related impacts of the social and environmental factors impacting on health in an era of globalisation.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Front Cover\r Cover
Promoting Health iii
Copyright\r iv
Contents v
Preface vii
Introduction ix
Acknowledgments xv
Reviewers xvi
CHAPTER 1\rHealth promotion in context: Primary Health Care and the New Public Health movement 1
THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION RESPONDS T 2
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE 3
PRIMARY CARE 7
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE, THE OTTAWA CHARTER 7
DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS 12
GLOBAL HEALTH PATTERNS 20
CONCLUSION 33
CHAPTER 2\rConcepts and values in health promotion 35
DEFINING HEALTH 35
EQUITY, EQUALITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE 43
POWER AND EMPOWERMENT 54
DEFINING COMMUNITY 56
ECONOMIC, HUMAN AND SOCIAL CAPITAL 58
PROMOTING YOUR OWN HEALTH 70
CONCLUSION 71
CHAPTER\r 3 Ecological sustainability and human health 73
WHAT IS ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY? 73
WHY IS ACKNOWLEDGING ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINA 75
WHAT ARE THE PREDICTED CHANGES AND LIKEL 76
GLOBAL RESPONSES TO ECOLOGICAL DEGRADATI 78
VULNERABLE POPULATIONS, SOCIAL AND ENVIR 79
ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY AND AUSTRALIA 80
CULTURAL–ENVIRONMENTAL INTERFACE 83
LINKING ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY AND HE 83
CONCLUSION 90
CHAPTER 4\rHealthy public policy, settings and supportive environments 92
WHAT IS HEALTHY PUBLIC POLICY? 92
WHAT IS HEALTH POLICY? 93
THE PROCESS OF PUBLIC POLICY-MAKING 94
LEVELS OF POLICY: FROM GLOBAL TO LOCAL 97
HEALTHY PUBLIC POLICY — FROM INTERNATION 97
HEALTHY PUBLIC POLICY; SETTINGS AND SUPP 100
ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 105
USING POLICY IN HEALTH PROMOTION 115
HEALTH-PROMOTING PARTNERSHIPS 117
CONCLUSION 123
CHAPTER 5\rCommunity action for social and environmental change 125
CHANGE IN COMMUNITIES 125
GOALS OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 129
A CONTINUUM OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES OR PRACTICE MODES\r 131
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES — PROCESS AND OUTCOME\r 134
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORKER ROLES 141
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORKER SKILLS 144
GLOBAL CHALLENGES TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT\r 146
ENCOURAGING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: IN WHOSE INTERESTS?\r 147
EVALUATING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ACTION 148
CONCLUSION 149
CHAPTER 6\rBuilding capacity for health promotion:program development and evaluation 151
WHY DO WE NEED TO PLAN? 151
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS THAT GUIDE PROGRAGAM DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION\r 153
COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT 162
GATHERING INFORMATION FOR A COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT\r 167
FUNDING PROGRAMS 182
EVALUATING HEALTH PROMOTION 183
CONCLUSION 195
CHAPTER 7\rEducation for health 197
DEFINING HEALTH EDUCATION 197
RATIONALE FOR HEALTH EDUCATION 198
CRITIQUE OF HEALTH EDUCATION BEHAVIOUR CHANGE APPROACHES\r 199
VALUES IN HEALTH EDUCATION 199
EDUCATION APPROACHES TO ADDRESS THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH\r 200
TEACHING AND LEARNING EDUCATION THEORY 203
COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE AND PSYCHOMOTOR DOMAINS OF LEARNING\r 208
FORMULATING GOALS AND OBJECTIVES 211
TEACHING—LEARNING STRATEGIES 213
LEARNING ORGANISATIONS 217
COMMUNITY-LEVEL EDUCATION 217
WORKING WITH GROUPS 219
CONCLUSION 228
CHAPTER 8\rSocial marketing approaches to health promation 230
SOCIAL MARKETING 231
Benefits of social marketing\r 234
CONCLUSION 248
CHAPTER 9\rScreening, risk assessment, immunisation and surveillance 249
IMMUNISATION, SCREENING, INDIVIDUAL RISK FACTOR ASSESSMENT AND SURVEILLANCE\r 250
CHILD HEALTH SURVEILLANCE AND SCREENING 256
RISK ASSESSMENT OF THE LOCAL ENVIRONMENT 256
CONCLUSION 257
New directions\rWhere to from here? 259
KEY THEMES IN PROMOTING HEALTH 259
APPENDIX ONE 262
THE DECLARATION OF ALMA-ATA 262
APPENDIX TWO 265
THE OTTAWA CHARTER FOR HEALTH PROMOTION 265
HEALTH PROMOTION 265
PREREQUISITES FOR HEALTH 265
ADVOCATE 265
ENABLE 265
MEDIATE 266
HEALTH PROMOTION ACTION MEANS: 266
COMMITMENT TO HEALTH PROMOTION 268
CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL ACTION 268
APPENDIX THREE 270
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 270
PREAMBLE 270
APPENDIX FOUR 275
THE EARTH CHARTER 275
PREAMBLE 275
EARTH, OUR HOME 275
THE GLOBAL SITUATION 275
THE CHALLENGES AHEAD 275
UNIVERSAL RESPONSIBILITY 276
PRINCIPLES 276
REFERENCES 281
Index 301