Green & Tones' Health Promotion

"A comprehensive text which addresses the topic in a way that will be accessible to those newly introduced to health promotion as well as those who are looking for a more in depth understanding."

Lara Matthews, School of Health, Nursing & Midwifery (Dumfries), University of the West of Scotland

This is essential reading for students in health promotion and public health around the world. Updated and edited by Ruth Cross and James Woodall, who are experts in Health Promotion at Leeds Beckett University, this edition features:

- International and multi-professional examples, giving you access to health promotion and public health challenges in different countries - Planning, implementing and evaluating successful health promotion programmes, so you understand the importance of what you're studying

- The impact of Covid-19 on health strategy, including both short-term and long-term consequences

Online resources include:

- 9 international case studies from countries such as Jamaica, Norway and Zambia

- Further reading for each chapter, encouraging greater depth of knowledge

- Seminar questions and activities for lecturers to use in teaching

Author: Ruth Cross
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 01/27/2024
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.34lbs
Size: 9.25h x 7.50w x 1.26d
ISBN: 9781529770599

About the Author
Woodall, James: - "James Woodall is a Senior Lecturer and the Co-Director of the Centre for Health Promotion Research. He is also the Course Leader for the MSc Public Health - Health Promotion programme (UK course). His research interest is offender health, particularly health promotion in prison settings. He completed his PhD in 2010, which examined the health promoting prison and how values central to the health promotion discourse are applied to the context of imprisonment. He has since published a number of peer-reviewed articles based on his PhD. He has also published work on young offenders and mental health, the role of prison visitors′ centres for supporting prisoners′ families and research exploring prisoners′ lay views on health. He continues to focus his research attention on the health of the prison population. As Co-Director of the Centre for Health Promotion Research, he is also involved in broader health promotion research projects such as oral health promotion and men′s health research. He currently teaches on the MSc Public Health - Health Promotion programme and contributes to other undergraduate and postgraduate areas in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences."Cross, Ruth: - Ruth is Course Director for Health Promotion at Leeds Beckett University. Ruth teaches on a range of modules including health communication, global health and health promotion as well as supervising post-graduate and doctoral research.

She has been involved in many projects with the Centre for Health Promotion Research including research into health and wellbeing with vulnerable groups and has led several pedagogical research projects into teaching and learning practice.Ruth has written many papers for peer-reviewed journal and published twelve textbooks with colleagues including, in 2024, Health Promotion: Planning and Strategies 5^th Ed; Health Promotion Ethics: A Framework for Social Justice; and Health Promotion & Health Education in Nursing and the monograph 'What is Health?'.

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