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International Journal of Social Work and Human Services Practice(CEASE PUBLICATION) Vol. 2(6), pp. 283 - 290
DOI: 10.13189/ijrh.2014.020612
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Health Promotion: A Critical Salutogenic Science
Jane Taylor 1,*, Lily O' Hara 2, Margaret Barnes 3
1 University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs Drive, Sippy Downs QLD 4558 , Australia
2 College for Advanced Education, PO Box 126662, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
3 University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs Drive, Sippy Downs QLD 4558, Australia
ABSTRACT
Health promotion is a relatively new health science discipline focused on creating health and wellbeing at individual, group and population levels through health and health related policies and programs. Addressing inequities in the health of people via policies and programs that address the milieu of interrelated cultural, social, economic, and political determinants of health is at the heart of health promotion practice, and as such it is a political process. A critical and salutogenic approach characterises health promotion best-practice and is well established in the health promotion literature. However, the realisation of critical and salutogenic practice can be challenging for practitioners in an environment where biomedical and behavioural health paradigms dominate. Health promotion practitioners need to partner with and learn from other disciplines that have or share similar challenges. "Health promotion is everybody's business" is a catch cry in the field and conversations with others with similar ideals, values and principles about how to work together in the pursuit of health for all are needed.
KEYWORDS
Health Promotion, Salutogenic, Holistic, Ecological Science, Health Paradigms
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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Jane Taylor , Lily O' Hara , Margaret Barnes , "Health Promotion: A Critical Salutogenic Science," International Journal of Social Work and Human Services Practice(CEASE PUBLICATION), Vol. 2, No. 6, pp. 283 - 290, 2014. DOI: 10.13189/ijrh.2014.020612.
(b). APA Format:
Jane Taylor , Lily O' Hara , Margaret Barnes (2014). Health Promotion: A Critical Salutogenic Science. International Journal of Social Work and Human Services Practice(CEASE PUBLICATION), 2(6), 283 - 290. DOI: 10.13189/ijrh.2014.020612.