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Global Handbook of Health Promotion Research, Vol. 1: Mapping Health Promotion Research provides a foundational and structured overview of health promotion research as an emerging field. The book addresses the lack of a unified framework for generating and sharing evidence in health promotion, offering a comprehensive guide to the epistemological, methodological, and ethical challenges in the field. By bringing together contributions from experts across diverse research traditions, it maps the current landscape and sets an agenda for advancing global health promotion research.

Key Features

• Explores the major challenges in health promotion research, including methodology, ethics, and knowledge production.
• Highlights contributions from a variety of research traditions and perspectives, promoting interdisciplinary dialogue.
• Organized around four key areas of practice:
• Individual and population health behaviors and determinants
• Health professionals’ interventions and practices
• Policy-making and institutional roles in health promotion
• Research and innovation for evidence-based guidelines and global health promotion
• Offers insights into current practices in research production, dissemination, and application.
• Serves as a reference for researchers, graduate students, practitioners, policy-makers, and administrators in public health, social sciences, and health promotion.
• Contributes to the development of a global community of health promotion researchers and the formal structuring of the field.