People-Centred Health Promotion

By Irving Rootman and John Raeburn

This inspiring and practical guide to people-centred health promotion focuses on: putting a people perspective at the centre of health promotion concerns; improvement of health-related quality of life, rather than just prevention of disease; empowering communities to develop and maintain their own self-determined action in health promotion; and taking a developmental approach to intervention and evaluation within communities.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471971375
• ISBN13: 9780471971375
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A refreshing approach to health promotion

This book is a good teaching tool. It covers the basic history and metamorphoses of the health promotion field, offering the reader a chance to critically examine the various approaches. It offers a refreshing look at health, utilizing a multi-dimensional approach in defining and evaluating individual and community health. It also offers many illustration of the ideas by describing health projects from around the world. One thing that could be discussed more are the counter arguments made by epidemiologists against such a broad approach...I would have loved to hear the authors' responses to this.