Evaluating Health Promotion: Practice and Methods - Softcover

Thorogood, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199569290 ISBN 13: 9780199569298

Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA, 2010

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The fully revised and updated third edition of this popular book.

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Margaret Thorogood was appointed Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Warwick in 2003 and in 2007 she was appointed as an Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand. Following her PhD on the safety of oral contraceptives she was involved in a series of further studies of hormonal contraceptive safety. At the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine she headed the Health Gain Project which aimed to bridge the gap between policy makers and academics by providing policy relevant research findings in the area of cardiovascular disease, and was also head of the Health Promotion Sciences Unit. More recently she has headed the Southern Africa Stroke Prevention Initiative which aimed to address the emerging burden of stroke and other cardiovascular disease in rural sub-Saharan Africa. At Warwick University she has helped to set up Masters courses in Public Health and in Research Methods for the Health Sciences.

Following her PhD on the 'Geography of Public Health' whilst based at the Department of Public Health in Tower Hamlets Health Authority, Yolande Coombes moved to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1991 where she was course organiser for the Masters in Health Promotion Sciences as well as carrying out research on behaviour change, aging and evaluation. In 1998 she moved to Malawi as a consultant in behaviour change and communications. She joined the Medical College in Malawi as a Senior Lecturer and helped to set up and was Course Organiser for the MPH. In 2004 she moved to Kenya where she continued consulting for the World Health Organization, and Population Services International as a regional researcher for social marketing for East and Southern Africa. In 2007 she became a specialist consultant in sanitation marketing and hygiene with the Water and Sanitation Program of the World Bank and continues to work across East Africa.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0199569290
• ISBN 13: 9780199569298
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228
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