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Promotion of health has become a central feature of health policy at local, national and international levels, forming part of global health initiatives such as those endorsed by the World Health Organisation. The issues examined in The Sociology of Health Promotion include sociology of risk, the body, consumption, processes of surveillance and normalisation and considerations relating to race and gender in the implementation of health programmes. It will be invaluable reading for students, health promoters, public health doctors and academics. Author Information Sarah Nettleton is a professor in the Department of Sociology at University of York, Wentworth College. She earned her PhD for a sociological study of dentistry at King’s College School of Medicine and Dentistry in Camberwell, South London. Robin Bunton is a lecturer at the University of Sales College of Medicine, Cardiff. His research interests are sociology of public health, substance misuse policy, and mental health. Roger Burrows is Professor of Cities at Newcastle University. He is committed to interdisciplinary working across the arts, humanities and the social sciences but also has a keen interest in creative and social technologies. He has published extensively in the field of housing and urban studies, as well as on consumption; digital technologies; health, illness and the body; migration; the metricisation of higher education; social class and other inequalities; and work and employment.
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