Table of Contents

Promoting Health: A Global Context and Rationale; A.Scriven PART ONE: GLOBAL ISSUES IN PROMOTING HEALTH Key Global Health Concerns for the 21st Century; B.Davey Inequalities in Health: International Patterns and Trends; D.McDaid & A.Oliver Global Health Promotion: Challenges and Opportunities; M.Mittelmark The Social Context of Health Promotion in a Globalising World; S.Garman PART TWO: GLOBAL CHALLENGES IN PROMOTING HEALTH Globalisation and Noncommunicable Diseases; D.Yach, R.Beaglehole & C.Hawkes Food, Health and Globalisation: Is Health Promotion Still Relevant?; M.Caraher, J.Coveney & T.Lang Tobacco: The Global Challenge for Health Promotion; S.Asma, P.Gupta & C.Warren HIV/AIDS: Lessons For and From Health Promotion; P.Aggleton Global Environment Change and Health; P.Wilkinson PART THREE: STRATEGIES FOR PROMOTING HEALTH IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT: NATIONAL AND REGIONAL CASE STUDIES Promoting Health in Low and Middle Income Countries: Achievements and Challenges; J.Hubley Trends and Factors in the Development of Health Promotion in Africa, 1973-2003; D.Nyamwaya Health Promotion in Latin America; H.Arroyo A Public Health and System Approach To Health Protection and Health Promotion in Hong Kong; S.Chan & G.Leung Public Health in the Former Soviet Union; J.Godinho Health Promotion Development in Europe: Barriers and New Opportunities; E.Ziglio, S.Haggard & C.Brown Health Promotion in Australia and New Zealand: The Struggle for Equity; S.Hearn, H.Martin, L.Signal & M.Wise Health Promotion in Canada: Back to the Past or Towards a Promising Future?; A.Pederson, I.Rootman & M.O'Neill Health Promotion in the USA: Building a Science Based Health Promotion Policy; D.Lightsey, D.McQueen & L.Anderson.

About the Author

ANGELA SCRIVEN is Course Leader for the MSc in Health Promotion and Public Health at Brunel University, UK. SEBASTIAN GARMAN is Senior Tutor in the Department of Health and Social Care at Brunel University, UK.