Rethinking Health Promotion: A Global Approach

by Theod MacDonald and Théodore H. MacDonald

In today's world 'health' means far more than merely the absence of illness. In Rethinking Health Promotion Theodore H. MacDonald sweeps away the confusion surrounding the function and position of health promotion. He argues that, far from being a modern innovation, health promotion has existed as a distinct and separate enterprise for as long as biomedicine and cautions against health promotion becoming organized merely an off-shoot of medical care.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415164745
• ISBN13: 9780415164740
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"