The Sociology of Health Promotion: Critical Analyses of Consumption, Lifestyle and Risk - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415116473 ISBN 13: 9780415116473

Publisher: Routledge, 1995

Synopsis

Promotion of health has become a central feature of health policy at local, national and international levels, forming part of global health initiatives such as those endorsed by the World Health Organisation. The issues examined in The Sociology of Health Promotion include sociology of risk, the body, consumption, processes of surveillance and normalisation and considerations relating to race and gender in the implementation of health programmes. It will be invaluable reading for students, health promoters, public health doctors and academics.

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Review:

"The book makes fascinating reading--not because it offers a complete discourse on health promotion from a sociological perpsective, but more because it brings together all the facts and follies, all the reational arguments and the prejudices, and all of the inconsistencies of some of the policies advanced in the name of health promotion, together with the arguments used by those who have shaped the ideological debate on the health promotion movement.... Th is book offers a sound bais on whihc to reassess thge current position of health promotion.."
-"Lnacelot

Synopsis:

Health promotion and the new public health are now central to health policy at local, national and international levels, forming part of global health initiatives such as those endorsed by the World Health Organisation. Issues examined include sociology of risk, the body, consumption, processes of surveillance and normalization and considerations relating to race and gender in the implementation of health programmes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0415116473
• ISBN 13: 9780415116473
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 253
• Editor: Bunton Robin, Burrows Roger, Nettleton Sarah