Promoting Health: Knowledge and Practice Jeanne Samson Katz
This lively and accessible book explores the relationship between the theory and practice of health promotion. It addresses challenging questions about the nature of health and health promotion. There is detailed discussion of health education both in individual counselling relationships and through mass media. The book takes a critical look at health information and ways in which it is produced and used. Finally it considers various approaches to planning and evaluating health interventions. (A course text for Open University course K301).