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Health Education Research, Vol. 17, No. 5, 680-682, October 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

BOOK REVIEW

Promoting Health through Organizational Change

Harvey A. Skinner Benjamin Cummings (Pearson Education Inc.), San Francisco, 2002 344 pp. ISBN 0-205-34159-4 (pb)

William R. Brieger

African Regional Health Education Centre College of Medicine, University of Ibadan Ibadan, Nigeria

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Promoting Health is built on two major themes developed and reiterated in 19 chapters that are divided into three major parts. The first theme is that the changes needed to bring about health promotion should not only focus on the behavior of individual health care consumers, but also on the behavior of health care professionals and health care organizations. The second theme stresses the need to go beyond incremental change to the fundamental integration of public health and clinical services. Promoting Health is actually three books in one, each corresponding with the three major sections of the book. Part 1, entitled `Re-orienting Health Care Organizations', is an overview of the present `health status' of health systems in industrialized countries. Part 2 is a workbook and toolbox that . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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