Settings for Health Promotion: Linking Theory and Practice

This book is the first full-length in-depth treatment of settings as a focal point for planning, organizing and implementing health promotion. The concept of `setting' is fundamental to theory and practice in health promotion. Internationally renowned authors describe the state of the art in the theory and practice of health promotion in settings such as the home, school, workplace, community, and the state and offer insightful commentaries on each others work. The Settings Approach to Health Promotion - Lawrence W Green, Irving Rootman and Blake D Poland Home and Families as Health Promotion Settings - Hassan Soubh and Louise Potvin Commentary - Lawrence Fisher Commentary - Ilze Kalnins The School as a Setting for Health Promotion - Guy Parcel, Steven Kelder and Karen Basen-Enquist Commentary - Cheryl Perry Commentary - Peter McLaren, Zeus Leonardo, Xochitl Perez Promoting the Determinates of Good Health in the Workplace - Michael Polanyi et al Commentary - Robert Bertera Commentary - Joan Eakin The Health Care Institutions as Settings for Health Promotion - Joy Johnson Commentary - Jane Lethbridge Commentary - Patricia Mullen and L Kay Bartholomew Health Promotion in Clinical Practice - Vivek Goel and Warren McIsaac Commentary - David Butler-Jones Commentary - Jane Zapka Community as a Setting for Health Promotion - Marie Boutilier, Shelley Cleverly and Ronald Labonte Commentary - John Raeburn Commentary - Evelyn deLeeuw The State as a Setting - John Lavis and Terrence Sullivan Commentary - Marshal Kreuter Reflections on Settings for Health Promotion - Blake D Poland, Lawrence W Green and Irving Rootman