Title: Health and modernity :
Authors: McQueen, David V.; Kickbusch, Ilona,; Potvin, Louise.
Date: 2007
Publisher: Springer,
Physical description: xi, 170 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: R
Abstract: Pandemics, substance abuse, natural disasters, obesity, and warfare: the line that once separated health crisis from social crisis no longer exists. Yet while social theories are implied in today's public health arena, they are rarely acknowledged. A panel explore this vital but understudied aspect of health promotion.
Contents: Introduction : Health promotion the origins of the third public health revolution leading to a new public health / David V. McQueen and Ilona Kickbusch -- From a theory group to a theory book / Louise Potvin and Laura Balbo -- Modernity, public health, and health promotion: a reflexive discourse / Louise Potvin and David V. McQueen -- Critical issues in theory for health promotion / David V. McQueen -- Cultural capital in health promotion / Thomas Abel -- Understanding differentiation of health in late modernity by use of sociological systems theory / Jürgen M. Pelikan -- Managing uncertainty through participation / Louise Potvin -- Thinking health promotion seriously / Laura Balbo -- Health governance: the health society / Ilona Kickbusch -- Appendix: Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion.
Subject headings (LCSH): Health promotion--Social aspects.; Health promotion.; Social sciences--Philosophy