Health Promotion and Professional Ethics
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Health Promotion and Professional Ethics

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Health Promotion and Professional Ethics

About this book

Health promotion is an increasingly important part of the work of most health professionals. Yet health promotion is qualitatively different from traditional health care activities.

This book will be a focused introduction to, and exploration of, ethical issues in health promotion. It aims to provide a rationale for the underlying value of health promotion and for resolving value conflicts. To what extent should an individual be obliged to contribute to the collective health of a society? Should a society be more concerned to promote health than to treat existing disease and illness? Indeed can a society be said to have a responsibility for the health of its members?

The first part of the book addresses the theoretical context of ethics and health promotion. The second part focuses on examples relating to nursing and other health professionals, using a case study approach. The book will be invaluable in helping professionals understand and respond to ethical challenges in practical ways.

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Yes, you can access Health Promotion and Professional Ethics by Alan Cribb, Peter Duncan, Alan Cribb,Peter Duncan in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Public Health, Administration & Care. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780632056033
eBook ISBN
9781405172523
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Public Health, Administration & Care

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Chapter 1 Values and Health Promotion: Some Fundamentals
  4. Chapter 2 The Challenge to Professional Ethics
  5. Chapter 3 Empowerment or Control? Behavioural Counselling and Face-to-Face Education
  6. Chapter 4 Individual or Community Interest? Considering Teenage Pregnancy
  7. Chapter 5 Do We Know What We're Doing? Evidence and the Ethics of Lifestyle Change
  8. Chapter 6 Who Decides What To Do? A Food Policy Case
  9. Chapter 7 Codes and Guidelines: Can They Help Heath Promoters?
  10. Chapter 8 Lessons From Applied Ethics
  11. Chapter 9 Some Resources for the Reflective Health Promoter
  12. References
  13. Index