Essentials of Health Promotion

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. Ruth Cross is the Course Director for Health Promotion at Leeds Beckett University. She teaches on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules within health promotion on subjects such as health communication, health psychology, critical public health and global health. Ruth worked as a Registered General Nurse for many years in England and overseas before moving into academia after completing an MSc in Health Promotion and Education. Ruth also has a PhD in Critical Health Psychology and was editor of the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education for six years. She has published widely in the health-promotion field including peer-viewed papers and several co-authored textbooks such as The Essentials of Health Promotion (2022), Health Promotion: Global Principles and Practice (2021), and Health Promotion: Planning and Strategies (2019).

Chapter 1 - What is 'health'? Chapter 2 - Health promotion: an historical overview Chapter 3 - Health Promotion Approaches Chapter 4 - The role of health promotion in tackling contemporary health challenges Chapter 5 - Inequalities in health Chapter 6 - The importance of health promotion values Chapter 7 - Assessing Health Needs: Principles and Practice Chapter 8 - Valuing Lay Perspectives Chapter 9 - Understanding epidemiology and health profiling Chapter 10 - The role of the individual Chapter 11 - The role of the state Chapter 12 - Partnership working Chapter 13 - Settings approach: overarching theory Chapter 14 - Healthy settings in action Chapter 15 - Virtual settings for health Chapter 16 - Professional competencies and core skills Chapter 17 - Searching and appraising the evidence Chapter 18 - Planning and designing health promotion programmes Chapter 19 - Health promotion research and evaluation Chapter 20 - Communicating effectively

An invaluable text for pre-registration or undergraduate students. It includes key health promotion theory, roles and excellent case studies. Very accessible and easy to read. Written by international experts. -- Dr Michael C Watson