Health Promotion International Advance Access originally published online on January 28, 2005
Health Promotion International 2005 20(2):209-210; doi:10.1093/heapro/dah512
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Hands on Health Promotion
Rob Moodie and Alana Hulme (eds)
IP Communications, East Hawthorn, Victoria, April 2004, 418 pp., ISBN: 0 9578617 6 1
E-mail: bernie.marshall@deakin.edu.au
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Hands on Health Promotion is an interesting and unusual text in health promotion. Its focus is clearly on everyday practice, rather than theoretical or academic considerations and, in bringing together over 50 authors, it has succeeded in exploring areas of practice that have not traditionally appeared in health promotion texts. However, it is not simply a descriptive text telling stories of good practice, but strives to set such practice within developmental and