ABSTRACT

Providing a critical review of the current state of health promotion research. This book re-conceptualises the field of health promotion as collaborative and integrating enterprise, rather than as a battlefield for disciplinary and intellectual clashes.
It makes a significant contribution to ongoing epistemological, theoretical and methodological debates in health promotion research. With contributors from Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland, the UK and the US, Researching Health Promotion will be of interest to students and professionals working in health promotion, public health, medicine and health policy.

chapter 1|22 pages

Connecting policy and practice

Jonathan Watson and Stephen Platt

chapter 2|15 pages

Repositioning health promotion

Erio Ziglio

chapter 5|19 pages

Postmodernism and health promotion

Dale Webb and David Wright

chapter 11|24 pages

Peer-led HIV prevention among gay men in London (the 4 gym project)

Jonathan Elford, Lorraine Sherr, Graham Bolding, Mark Maguire and Fraser Serle

chapter 12|23 pages

Falling on deaf ears?

Cicely Kerr, Jenny Maslin, Jim Orford, Sue Dalton, Maria Ferrins-Brown and