Measurement in Health Promotion and Protection

The book is in three parts. Part I clarifies the concepts of health and health promotion, discusses the main processes that lead to improved health and suggests the areas of health promotion and protection in which measurements is possible and relevant. Part II has more of a textbook function and includes chapters on how to measure the principal dimensions of health and processes of health promotion and protection. Researchers should view this part as a summary of measurement options in various fields of health promotion and protection, although inevitably it has not been possible to cover extensively some of the more complex measures currently being developed. In part III, specific examples of the application of measurements to achieved or potential improvements in health are presented, including discussions of successes and failures, and some recent developments, both theoretical and practical, are described.