Health modernity : [publication] : the role of theory in health promotion /
by
McQueen, David V
; Kickbusch, Ilona; Potvin, Louise; Pelikan, Jürgen M; Balbo, Laura; Abel, Thomas.
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BookPublisher: New York : Springer, 2007Description: XI, 170 p. : Ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780387377575; 0387377573.SAPHIR theme(s): Promotion de la santé - PréventionMeSH subject(s): Health Promotion | Public Health | Philosophy, Medical | Social ChangeAddiction suisse subject(s): Gesundheitsförderung | Oeffentliches Gesundheitswesen | KonzeptPUBLICATION TYPE SAPHIR: MonographOnline resources: Date de consultation : 05.05.2009 Summary: Pandemics, substance abuse, natural disasters, obesity, and warfare: the line that once separated health crisis from social crisis no longer exists. Yet while social theories are implied in todays public health arena, they are rarely acknowledged. Now an international panel of leaders in world health explores this vital but understudied aspect of health promotion. [Contents] :1. Introduction: Health promotion: the origins of the third public health revolution leading to a new public health / David McQueen and Ilona Kickbusch. - 2. Health Promotion: the origins of the third public health revolution leading to a new public health / David McQueen and Ilona Kickbusch. - 3. Modernity, public health, and health promotion: a reflexive discourse / Louise Potvin and David McQueen. - Critical issues in theory for health promotion / David McQueen. - Cultural capital in health promotion / Thomas Abel. - Understanding differentiation of health in late modernity by use of sociological systems theory / Jürgen Pelikan. - Managing uncertainty through participation / Louise Potvin. - Thinking health promotion sociologically / Laura Balbo. - Health governance: the health society / Ilona Kickbusch.
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Pandemics, substance abuse, natural disasters, obesity, and warfare: the line that once separated health crisis from social crisis no longer exists. Yet while social theories are implied in todays public health arena, they are rarely acknowledged. Now an international panel of leaders in world health explores this vital but understudied aspect of health promotion. [Contents] :1. Introduction: Health promotion: the origins of the third public health revolution leading to a new public health / David McQueen and Ilona Kickbusch. - 2. Health Promotion: the origins of the third public health revolution leading to a new public health / David McQueen and Ilona Kickbusch. - 3. Modernity, public health, and health promotion: a reflexive discourse / Louise Potvin and David McQueen. - Critical issues in theory for health promotion / David McQueen. - Cultural capital in health promotion / Thomas Abel. - Understanding differentiation of health in late modernity by use of sociological systems theory / Jürgen Pelikan. - Managing uncertainty through participation / Louise Potvin. - Thinking health promotion sociologically / Laura Balbo. - Health governance: the health society / Ilona Kickbusch.