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Product Description: Since the first edition of this book was published, in 1990, health promotion has been enjoying an increasingly high profile both nationally and internationally. For this new edition, many chapters have been extensively revised or rewritten to take account of recent developments; new issues about health education are discussed and, as a result, the book provides a more comprehensive and critical review of health promotion and its relationship with health education...read more

Product Description: It could be said with some justification that the task of education is to safe­ guard people's right to learn about important aspects of human culture and experience. Since health and illness occupy a prominent place in our everyday experience, it might reasonably be argued that everyone is entitled to share whatever insights we possess into the state of being healthy and to benefit from what might be done to prevent and treat disease and discomfort...read more