Linking Schools, Health Organizations, and Community
This book demonstrates how some of the most serious problems and dangers confronting teenagers today - tobacco, alcohol, substance abuse, pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, mental health problems and youth violence - can be addressed through health promotion and education.
Promoting Health for All provides an up-to-date and accessible introduction to current health promotion and public health developments in the UK. The text provides both an outline of health promotion theory and draws on the experience of practitioners to demonstrate health promotion practice and provide students, policymakers and practitioners ......
Aims to give both the professional and patient a tool for finding reliable health information on the Internet. This book includes sites that have been selected and reviewed by expert nurses in over 40 specialties. Sites have been reviewed for ease of use by the general public, accuracy, currency, sponsorship, and availability in languages.
The government, the media, and individual Americans have all embraced programs to promote disease prevention. Yet obesity is up, exercise is down, teenagers continue to smoke, and sexually transmitted disease is rampant. Why? This title examines the ethical and social problems that create subtle obstacles to changing Americans' unhealthy behavior.
`It is a timely, thought-provoking thesis, whose analytical framework has the potential to reduce well-intentioned naivete and encourage us all to critically examine the inherently political and controversial nature of the public health promotion endeavour' - Critical Public Health Examining the efforts to affect behaviour change, the author ......
This book is the first full-length in-depth treatment of settings as a focal point for planning, organizing and implementing health promotion. The concept of `setting' is fundamental to theory and practice in health promotion. Internationally renowned authors describe the state of the art in the theory and practice of health promotion in settings such as the home, school, workplace, community, and the state and offer insightful commentaries on each others work.
Qigong (CHEE-GUNG) has swept America as the newest approach to healing and was on the rise in China until the recent Falun gong crackdowns. This book discusses the nature and practice of Qigong and its various manifestations. It exposes such alleged Qigong practices as: clairvoyance, telepathy, weightlessness, and energy discharge.
Born in Venezuela in 1920, Benacerraf's childhood was spent in Paris, until fear of war with Nazi Germany compelled his family to flee to Venezuela in 1939. By the time he received a Nobel prize in 1980 for his discovery of immune response genes, he had travelled a long way on the road to success. This book presents the story of his life.
'Aboud's book is the second volume of a cross-cultural series edited by Lonner and Berry. The laudable aim of the series is to critically evaluate Western paradigms through anexploration of the realtionship between culture and behaviour. This book's contribution to a more 'inclusive psychology' is through an examination of the health issues and ......
