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Health Education Research, Vol. 17, No. 1, 133-134, February 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

BOOK REVIEW

Evidence-based Health Promotion

Elizabeth Perkins, Ina Simnett and Linda Wright (eds) John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1999 448 pp. ISBN 0 4719 7851 5

Gordon Macdonald

University of Glamorgan

The search for evidence of effectiveness of health promotion interventions has had a relatively short and concentrated history, but at least as long as the discipline itself, and continues unabated to this day. Articles on the subject have mushroomed in recent years, in all the appropriate periodicals and, in the last 5 years or so, whole text books on the subject have emerged.

The security of the evidence remains, however, a little illusory and so it is somewhat surprising that a book of some 430 pages has been . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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