Developing Practice for Public Health and Health Promotion: with Pageburst online access (Public Health and Health Promotion Practice)

Naidoo BSc MSc PGDip PGCE, Jennie,Wills BA MA MSc PGCE, Jane

ISBN 10: 0702044547 / ISBN 13: 9780702044540

Published by Bailliere Tindall, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Developing Practice for Public Health and Health Promotion: with Pageburst online access (Public Health and Health Promotion Practice)
• Publisher: Bailliere Tindall
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0702044547
• ISBN 13: 9780702044540
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Acceptable

About this title

Synopsis

Printed book plus Pageburst™ access. You will receive a printed book and access to the complete book content electronically. Pageburst™ enhances learning not only by bringing world class content to your fingertips but also by letting you add to it, annotate it, and categorize it in a way that suits you. Pageburst™ frees you to spend more time learning and less time searching.

Developing Practice for Public Health and Health Promotion is the second title in the ‘Public Health and Health Promotion Practice’ series, expanding on the best-selling introductory textbook, Foundations for Health Promotion.

Developing Practice is an essential text for the many different practitioners, professionals and specialists who contribute to public health and health promotion, enabling them to develop their knowledge, skills and confidence.

• Case studies, activities and discussion points encourage interaction and reflection, and stimulate learning
• Unique, user-friendly approach makes learning easy
• Examines the forces that drive practice
• Focuses on the core strategies of:

• Tackling health inequalities
• User and public participation and involvement
• Working in partnerships
• Empowerment.
• Identifies current public health priorities and how to address these in practice.

• Fully updated to reflect the many changes in health promotion theory, practice and policy
• New chapter on empowerment as a key health promotion strategy

About the Authors

Dr Jennie Naidoo BSc, MSc, PGDip, PGCE is Principal Lecturer, Health Promotion and Public Health, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Jane Wills is Professor of Health Promotion in the School of Health and Social Care at South Bank University and is also Director of the Centre for Applied Research in Improvement and Innovation (CApRII).
She has over 25 years of experience of teaching public health and health promotion. Her research focuses on health education and health literacy and behavioural interventions particularly in relation to obesity. She is a trained counsellor and also teaches motivational interviewing and counselling skills to health care professionals. She has also held numerous external examiner and independent assessor posts, maintaining the discipline of health promotion.
Initially qualifying as a teacher, she has a strong interest in pedagogy and student development, regularly publishing with students.