Healthy Public Policy at the Local Level

Fülszöveg

Healthy Public Policy is a term used by the World Health Organization
to describe a promotive type of health policy which aims at putting the
issues of health on the agenda of a broader range of public policies. It
involves the development of alliances and partnerships which crosscut
sectoral boundaries of traditional public policy making and foster a bet-
ter interaction between personal, social and political arenas. The book
presents and discusses a selection of case studies on such a type of po-
licy emerging at the local level, which were given at the 2nd Internatio-
nal WHO-Conference on Health Promotion in April 1988 in Adelaide/
Australia.
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Adalbert Evers is Senior Research Fellow at the European Centre for
Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna, and Lecturer for Social Policy
at the University of Frankfurt/FRG. His teaching, research and publica-
tions concentrate on transformations in welfare policies, especially in the
field of personal social... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Healthy Public Policy is a term used by the World Health Organization
to describe a promotive type of health policy which aims at putting the
issues of health on the agenda of a broader range of public policies. It
involves the development of alliances and partnerships which crosscut
sectoral boundaries of traditional public policy making and foster a bet-
ter interaction between personal, social and political arenas. The book
presents and discusses a selection of case studies on such a type of po-
licy emerging at the local level, which were given at the 2nd Internatio-
nal WHO-Conference on Health Promotion in April 1988 in Adelaide/
Australia.
c
Adalbert Evers is Senior Research Fellow at the European Centre for
Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna, and Lecturer for Social Policy
at the University of Frankfurt/FRG. His teaching, research and publica-
tions concentrate on transformations in welfare policies, especially in the
field of personal social services, care and policies for the elderly.
Wendy Farrant is a Health Education Authority lecturer at the
Department of Community Medicine, St. Mary's Hospital Medical
School in London. Her special interests and publications include
community development in health, women's health, politics of health
and health promotion policy.
Alf Trojan is Professor and Head of the 2nd Department of the Institute
for Medical Sociology at the University of Hamburg, FRG. His areas of
teaching, publication and special interest concern policy and health pro-
motion, primary health care, self-help groups, social community organi-
sations. Vissza