This book is the first full-length in-depth treatment of settings as a focal point for planning, organizing and implementing health promotion. The concept of 'setting' is fundamental to theory and practice in health promotion. Internationally renowned authors describe the state-of-the-art in the theory and practice of health promotion in settings such as the home, school, workplace, community, and state and offer insightful commentaries on each other's work.

The Settings Approach to Health Promotion - Lawrence W Green, Irving Rootman and Blake D Poland
Home and Families as Health Promotion Settings - Hassan Soubh and Louise Potvin
Commentary - Lawrence Fisher
Commentary - Ilze Kalnins
The School as a Setting for Health Promotion - Guy Parcel, Steven Kelder and Karen Basen-Enquist
Commentary - Cheryl Perry
Commentary - Peter McLaren, Zeus Leonardo, Xochitl Perez
Promoting the Determinates of Good Health in the Workplace - Michael Polanyi et al
Commentary - Robert Bertera
Commentary - Joan Eakin
The Health Care Institutions as Settings for Health Promotion - Joy Johnson
Commentary - Jane Lethbridge
Commentary - Patricia Mullen and L Kay Bartholomew
Health Promotion in Clinical Practice - Vivek Goel and Warren McIsaac
Commentary - David Butler-Jones
Commentary - Jane Zapka
Community as a Setting for Health Promotion - Marie Boutilier, Shelley Cleverly and Ronald Labonte
Commentary - John Raeburn
Commentary - Evelyn deLeeuw
The State as a Setting - John Lavis and Terrence Sullivan
Commentary - Marshal Kreuter
Reflections on Settings for Health Promotion - Blake D Poland, Lawrence W Green and Irving Rootman