The definitive text on health promotion, this book covers both the knowledge-base and the process of health promotion at a level that lecturers say is perfect for specialist Health Promotion and Public Health courses. This edition comes with a brand new website for lecturers and students featuring case studies from around the world, questions for discussion and free access to relevant journal articles.

Beginning with a critical appraisal of the concept itself, this work outlines new models for defining health promotion and sets out the factors involved in planning health promotion programmes that work.

Written in the context of recent developments including the National Service Framework for Mental Health, this book provides evidence-based guidelines for care, focuses on the key concept of recovering in the care planning process, and provides practical case illustrations covering a range of issues.

'Planning Health Promotion Programs' presents a health promotion planning framework (called Intervention Mapping) as a series of steps, tasks, and processes to help health promotion and health education planners develop theory- and evidence-based programs. The book guides students and practitioners through the planning process and reviews the most common theoretical approaches.

[This book] will show you that you don't need a degree in marketing in order to create successful outreach events. Health science librarians can take what they already know about their patrons and their own libraries and apply that knowledge to every planning process with the help of the practical strategies found in this guide.