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Health Education Research, Vol. 16, No. 3, 383-384, June 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

BOOK REVIEW

Evaluating Health Promotion, Practice and Methods

Margaret Thorogood and Yolande Coombes (eds) Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000174 pp. ISBN 0-19-263 169-1 (pb)

Stephen Weeks

Primary Nurse, South Leeds Community Unit Day Hospital, Community & Mental Health Services,Leeds

Health promotion, as a `newly emerging discipline', is at the forefront of media attention and this book arrives at an opportune time. Morris' Foreword sets the tone for this highly interesting paperback—citing `a more rational comprehensive view of the potential for improving the people's health', Morris suggests that this shift in opinion has become evident since power in the UK moved from Major to Blair.

The promotion of health is viewed as being of paramount importance, and by adopting an honest approach this appraisal anticipates developments . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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