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Title Health promotion settings : principles and practice / edited by Angela Scriven and Margaret Hodgins
Published London : SAGE Publications, 2012
London : Sage Publications, 2012

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Description xxi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Contents note continued: ch. 9 How effective are schools as a setting for health promotion? / Marilyn Toft -- ch. 10 The Healthy Universities approach: adding value to the higher education sector / Sue Powell -- ch. 11 Health promoting prisons: dilemmas and challenges / Jane South -- pt. III The workplace setting -- Introduction to Part III Workplaces as a setting for health promotion / Margaret Hodgins -- ch. 12 Healthy workplaces: balancing employee health and economic expediency / Paul Fleming -- ch. 13 Volkswagen: a comprehensive approach to health promotion in the workplace / Uwe Brandenburg -- ch. 14 Promoting health and wellbeing at the Royal Mail Group, UK / Steven Boorman -- ch. 15 Workplace health promotion in SMEs: an example of good practice / Rob Whiting
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Health promotion settings: an overview / Angela Scriven -- pt. I Health promotion principles and the settings approach -- Introduction to Part I Principles and practice in a settings approach / Angela Scriven -- ch. 2 The settings approach: looking back, looking forward / Mark Dooris -- ch. 3 A whole systems approach to working in settings / John Griffiths -- ch. 4 Partnership, collaboration and participation: fundamental principles in a settings approach to health promotion / Angela Scriven -- ch. 5 Planning and evaluating health promotion in settings / James Woodall -- pt. II Health promoting settings -- Introduction to Part II Healthy settings / Angela Scriven -- ch. 6 Healthy neighbourhoods and communities: policy and practice / Martin Seymour -- ch. 7 Healthy cities: comprehensive solutions to urban health improvement / Katrin Engelhardt -- ch. 8 The healthy hospital: a contradiction in terms? / Trevor Hancock --
Summary Health Promotion Settings combines the theoretical discourse of the settings approach, covering a wide range of fundamental principles, concepts and policy issues, with real life examples of settings, including workplaces, schools, neighborhood, cities and prisons. Combining More...theory with practical examples and case studies, Angela Scriven and Margaret Hodgins show how a settings approach can work in practice, drawing on a range of local, national and international initiatives and coordinated projects
Analysis GHS3102
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 253-258)
Subject Health promotion.
Health Promotion -- methods.
Public Health.
Author Hodgins, Margaret.
Scriven, Angela.
ISBN 0857025465
9780857025463