Rethinking Health Promotion: A Global Approach

by Théodore H. MacDonald

Book Overview

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415164753
• ISBN13: 9780415164757
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"