Debates and Dilemmas in Promoting Health [Paperback]

This accessible and engaging book addresses the fundamental debates surrounding health promotion as well as exploring new horizons and raising controversial issues. Containing analysis from practitioners, policy-makers and academics, it teases out the exciting and sometimes difficult dilemmas facing those promoting health. Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect changes in health promotion practice, policy and research, this book is the reader will be of continued interest to all those committed to promoting health, especially those working in the health and social care fields.

MOYRA SIDDELL, LINDA JONES, JEANNE KATZ, ALYSON PEBERDY and JENNY DOUGLAS are all at the School of Health & Social Welfare, Open University, Milton Keynes.
MOYRA SIDDELL, LINDA JONES, JEANNE KATZ, ALYSON PEBERDY and JENNY DOUGLAS are all at the School of Health & Social Welfare, Open University, Milton Keynes.

Introduction
SECTION 1: KEY ISSUES IN HEALTH AND HEALTH PROMOTION
Introduction
The Cycle of Conflict: The History of the Public Health and Health Promotion Movements;C.Webster and J.French
The Challenge of Health Inequalities; H.Graham
Older People's Health: Applying Antonovsky's Salutogenic Paradigm; M.Sidell
Social Capital and Health Promotion: A Review; P.Hawe and A.Shiell
The Importance of Social Theory for Health Promotion: From Description to Reflexivity; R.Caplan
Models of Health:Pervasive, Persuasive, and Politically Charged; T.Collins
Planning and Delivering Health Promotion: Intergration Challenges; A.Tannerhill
The Limits of Lifestyle: Re-assessing 'Fatalism' in the Popular Culture of Illness Prevention; C.Davison, S.Frankel and G.Davey-Smith
An Empowerment Model of Health Promotion; K.Tones and S.Tilford
Counselling People Living with HIV/AIDS; P.Connor
More than Words: Dialogue across Difference; Y.Gunaratnum
The Social Marketing Imbroglio in Health Promotion; R.Craig Lefebvre
SECTION 2 : QUESTIONING THE EVIDENCElÃ4