Health Promotion (PDF)

Incisively written, this new edition of a popular guide first
published in 1996 slices through the rhetoric of health promotion.
Its penetrating analysis quickly reveals health promotion's
conceptual roots, providing an enlightening map of their web of
theory and practice.

David Seedhouse proves that health promotion, a discipline
intended to improve the health of a population, is
prejudiced--every plan and every project stems first from
human values--and argues that only by acknowledging this will
a mature discipline emerge. To help speed progress the author
proposes a positive, practical theory of health promotion destined
to inspire anyone who wishes to create better health.

This new edition includes three new chapters on conventional
health promotion, radical and foundational health promotion and
mental health promotion, providing examples of the use of
foundational health promotion. This new edition also adds five
new teaching exercises, incorporates and updates the guide for
teachers and lecturers and includes a new topical case study. This
book is laced with entertaining dialogues and readers are
encouraged to explore ten carefully presented exercises.

Educational, accessible and intelligent, Health Promotion:
Philosophy, Prejudice and Practice, 2nd Edition is a seminal
work which heralds the beginning of the end of health
promotion's long adolescence. It is nothing less than
essential reading for all practitioners and students of health
promotion.