Health Promotion
Professional Perspectives
2nd Edition

Edited By Angela Scriven & Judy Orme
August 2001
Palgrave
ISBN: 0333948343
272 pages, 6 ¼" x 9 ¼"
$64.50 Paper Original


Thoroughly revised and updated to take account of recent changes in health policy, this new edition offers an extensive insight into a wide variety of professional perspectives on health promotion. New chapters highlight recent significant changes in the NHS, the emerging role of primary care groups, the enhanced role of community nurses including policy initiatives such as health action zones, and health promotion in higher education.

Contents
Introduction; A.Scriven
SECTION ONE: ISSUES CONCERNED WITH THEORY AND PRACTICE
SECTION TWO: HEALTH SERVICE
SECTION THREE: LOCAL AUTHORITY
SECTION FOUR: EDUCATION AND YOUTH ORGANISATIONS
SECTION FIVE: VOLUNTARY SECTOR
SECTION SIX: WORKPLACE

Author Biographies: ANGELA SCRIVEN is Award Leader for Professional Health Programs and Principal Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Human Sciences at Bath Spa University College. JUDY ORME is Award Leader for Public Health and Principal Lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at the University of the West of England.

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