Health Education Research Advance Access originally published online on July 7, 2006
Health Education Research 2006 21(4):598-599; doi:10.1093/her/cyl011
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Health Promotion: Evidence and Experience
Health Promotion: Evidence and ExperienceKevin Lucas and Barbara Lloyd
Sage Publications, London (2005)
168 pp. ISBN 0-7619-4006-5
Professor of Health Promotion, Department of Education & Health Promotion, University of Bergen
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This is a quite personal account of health promotion. It begins with four pages giving personal perspectives of the authors, a book feature that is rare. The personal view offered by Lloyd manages not to mention health promotion (!), while Lucas' reveals the book's theme better than the title does: He and Lloyd worked for years in different parts of the health and higher education establishments in England, yet they came to the same conclusion about the state of health promotion in England. The exposition of that point of view is the subject of the book.
So,