The Social Significance of Health Promotion

"The Social Significance of Health Promotion" explores the potential of health promotion to impact on our social values and sense of community. Beginning with the historical context of health promotion addressed in terms of advocacy issues, this book moves on to present analyses of specific health promotion programs in which the contributors are actively engaged. These chapters take a practitioner's perspective and cover a wide range of issues such as social exclusion, children's mental health professional competency, the role of alternative health promotion in the workplace.