Promoting health : global perspectives / edited by Angela Scriven and Sebastian Garman

Content includes

1. Promoting health : a global context and rationale

Pt. I. Global issues in promoting health : an overview
2. Key global health concerns for the twenty-first century
3. Inequalities in health : international patterns and trends
4. Global health promotion : challenges and opportunities
5. The social context of health promotion in a globalising world

Pt. II. Global health challenges : an overview
6. Globalisation and noncommunicable diseases
7. Food, health and globalisation : is health promotion still relevant?
8. Tobacco : the global challenge for health promotion
9. HIV/AIDS : lessons for and from health promotion
10. Global environmental change and health

Pt. III. Strategies for promoting health in the global context : an overview
11. Promoting health in low and middle income countries : achievements and challenges
12. Trends and factors in the development of health promotion in Africa, 1973-2003
13. Health promotion in Latin America
14. A public health and system approach to health protection and health promotion in Hong Kong
15. Public health in the former Soviet Union
16. Health promotion development in Europe : barriers and new opportunities
17. Health promotion in Australia and New Zealand : the struggle for equity
18. Health promotion in Canada : back to the past or towards a promising future?
19. Health promotion in the USA : building a science-based health promotion policy

Includes bibliographical references and index