International Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Health Promotion: Practices and Reflections from Around the World

This international handbook brings together researchers and teachers from 25 countries of the five continents to share their experiences of teaching health promotion in undergraduate and graduate courses related to different health professions. Chapter authors share teaching methodologies used in classes, discuss the competencies students need to learn and indicate research opportunities. Readers will be provided with real-world examples of empowering, participatory, holistic, intersectoral, equitable and sustainable teaching/learning strategies that aim to improve health and reduce health inequities.

This handbook was edited by an editorial board formed by 12 members of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) from seven countries – Brazil, Belgium, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, Taiwan and UK –, and includes 45 chapters organized in seven thematic sections, each one dedicated to a different aspect of the process of teaching and learning health promotion:

• The health promotion curriculum
• Making health promotion relevant to practice
• Pedagogies for health promotion
• Special topics for health promotion
• Health promotion assessment and quality assurance
• Health promotion as a transformational practice
• Students’ reflections

The International Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Health Promotion: Practices and Reflections from Around the World aims to encourage a dialogue between teaching and learning practices carried out locally and the possibilities of replicating these experiences globally, recognizing cultural differences and similarities. This handbook is intended for a wide range of readers, including education and training providers, health professionals and health care students. Due to its intersectoral and interdisciplinary approach, it will also be of interest to teachers and students in other fields of the Social Sciences, such as Urban Planning, Social Work, Public Policy, International Relations and Population Studies.

Marco Akerman is a Full Professor at the Department of Politics, Management and Health in the School of Public Health – University of São Paulo, since 2014. MD (1981) and Specialist in Public Health and Social Medicine (1983) at the Federal University of Minas Gerais; Specialist in Hospital Management for the Public Sector, Fundação Getúlio Vargas (1986); Master in Planning and Financing of the Health Sector (1989) and PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health (1993), at the University of London. Researcher of CEPEDOC WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center on Healthy Cities and Health promotion since 2000; President of the São Paulo Public Health Association (2006-2007); PAHO Regional Consultant on Local Development and Health, Regional Focus Point of Social Determinants of Health (2006-2009); Regional Vice President for Latin America of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (mandate 2010-2016); Coordinator of the WG on Health Promotion and Sustainable Development inthe Brazilian Association of Collective Health - ABRASCO (2011-2016). Main research topics: policy, programs and services evaluation; social determination; intersectoriality; SDG and health promotion.

Ana Claudia Camargo Gonçalves Germani is graduated in Medicine at the ABC Region Medical School (2000). She did a Residency Course in Preventive Medicine at the University of São Paulo Medical School (FMUSP), where she also completed a Master's (2005) and doctorate (2010). She is currently a Professor at the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of São Paulo Medical School. She has experience in health promotion, with an emphasis on reorienting health services and medical education. Her main research interests are health promotion linked to the following themes: primary health care (PHC), competencies and interdisciplinary / interprofessional education (IPE). More recently, she has also started developing research about black health equity and complementary and alternative medicine.