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Health Education Research, Vol. 17, No. 3, 376-377, June 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

BOOK REVIEW

Health Promotion: Effectiveness, Efficiency and Equity, 3rd edn

Keith Tones and Sylvia Tilford Nelson Thornes, Cheltenham, 2001 524 pp, ISBN 0-7487-4527-0 (pb)

Maurice Mittelmark, Professor

Research Centre for Health Promotion
University of Bergen
Norway

My starting point for this book review was to rummage my bookshelves for good old, tried and true Health Education: Effectiveness and Efficiency, by Tones, Tilford and Robinson (1990).

Right off, the physical contrast of the First and Third Editions is notable with regard to the thickness, width, length and density (the Third Edition has over 700 words on its densest pages!).

The result is a Third Edition that is easily twice as long as the First Edition and harder to read than the First Edition—harder not because the difficulty level has been raised, but simply because tired old eyes have difficulty jumping to the correct lines in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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