Health and Modernity The Role of Theory in Health Promotion /

• Main Authors: McQueen, David V. (Author), Kickbusch, Ilona (Author), Potvin, Louise (Author), Pelikan, Jürgen M. (Author), Balbo, Laura (Author), Abel, Thomas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public health.; Health promotion.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Public Health.

Health and Modernity The Role of Theory in Health Promotion David V. McQueen, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia Ilona Kickbusch, Federal Office for Health, Bern, Switzerland and Louise Potvin, Université de Montréal, Canada Jürgen Pelikan, University of Vienna, Austria Lau...

Table of Contents:

• From a Theory Group to a Theory Book
• Modernity, Public Health, and Health Promotion
• Critical Issues in Theory for Health Promotion
• Cultural Capital in Health Promotion
• Understanding Differentiation of Health in Late Modernity by Use of Sociological Systems Theory
• Managing Uncertainty Through Participation
• Thinking Health Promotion Sociologically
• Health Governance: The Health Society.