Handbook of Settings-Based Health Promotion

The Handbook of Settings-Based Health Promotion offers a comprehensive overview of settings-based health promotion, providing insights into different perspectives and applications. It emphasizes a salutogenic focus and explores how the creation of wellbeing and fostering of potential in settings enables individuals and populations to flourish. The book includes 15 chapters organized in three sections, covering the evolution, foundations, and key principles of the settings-based approach, as well as applying it to key settings and considering future challenges. It is a valuable resource for academics, students, policy-makers, and practitioners in the fields of health promotion and public health.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 289 pages
Publication date: 06 May 2023
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

The book's main goal is to give academics, students, policymakers, and practitioners a distinctive perspective on a wide range of viewpoints on settings-based health promotion. It clarifies the different interpretations and ideological understandings of what it means to take a settings-based approach. The emphasis is on a salutogenic focus, which explores how the creation of well-being and the fostering of potential in settings to best enable individuals and populations to flourish implies that the setting itself must be the entry point for health promotion. Building on this, the text explores how the settings approach to health promotion strives for changes in the structure and ethos of the setting, detailing how changes and developments in people's health and health behavior are easier to achieve if health promoters focus on settings rather than solely on individuals. The book comprises 15 chapters organized in three sections: In Part I, Evolution, Foundations, and Key Principles of the Settings-Based Approach, the first four chapters present the determinants, theoretical basis, and generic commonalities that are consistent over various settings initiatives and formulate the grounds for the settings-based health promotion approach. In Part II, Applying the Settings-Based Approach to Key Settings, Chapters 5-13 introduce the key settings initiatives – both traditional and non-traditional (new and contemporary) – with their developments and specific features. In Part III, Gaia – The Ultimate Setting for Health Promotion, the last two chapters consider the settings approach in the context of future challenges and explore possible directions for further development. The Handbook of Settings-Based Health Promotion offers novel information and perspectives on the topic.

Weight: 482g
Dimension: 155 x 234 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030958589
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022