A sociology of health promotion

Title: A sociology of health promotion
Creator: Germov, John; Freij, Maria; Richmond, Katy
Relation: Second Opinion: An Introduction to Health Sociology p. 464-484
Relation: http://www.oup.com.au/titles/higher_ed/health_sciences/9780195520149
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2014
Description: Health promotion aims to improve the health of whole populations. Before the 1970s there was a three-pronged approach to addressing health and illness: providing communities with basic public health facilities (such as clean water and sewerage); providing hospital-based services; and providing health education.The philosophy of health promotion has developed since the 1970s and now reflects a social model of health, or what has commonly come to be known as the new public health approach. This approach was intended to change the health agenda towards community participation and empowerment, and wider social and environmental change. In Australia and elsewhere, though, health promotion in practice has essentially remained committed to old-style health educationm despite much rhetoric to the contary. This chapter provides a critique of this approach and offers some examples and suggestions for the future.
Subject: health promotion; social class; new public health; social construction
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1067096
Identifier: uon:18313
Identifier: ISBN:9780195520149
Language: eng