Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Health and Health Promotion as Social Practice
Chapter 2. Issues in Health Promotion
Chapter 3. Social Inequalities and Health
Chapter 4. Psychological and Social Explanations for Health
Chapter 5. Conducting Community Health Research
Chapter 6. Theories and Models for Community Health Promotion
Chapter 7. Socially Based Interventions and Programmes
Chapter 8. Evaluation of Health Promotion Programmes

Conclusion

About the Author

Christine Stephens is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Massey University, New Zealand. Her research interests are in health psychology, health promotion, community health and critical social psychology. At present she is working in a multi-disciplinary research team to develop a longitudinal study of ageing and wellbeing in New Zealand.