Health promotion: A psycho-social approach

摘要

Stephens' book provides post-graduate students and public health practitioners with a wonderful resource. It pulls together insights from public health psychology and community health psychology, highlighting the social psychological dimensions of health inequalities and health promotion. Whilst this is definitely a textbook and not a polemic, it provides a useful synthesis of some of the existing and generally rather fragmented research into the social psychology of health inequalities - as well as highlights the value of a range of social theorists whose work is too often neglected within the field of health promotion.