Health Promotion International, Vol. 14, No. 2, 191-192,
June 1999
© Oxford University Press 1999
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People-Centred Health Promotion
John Raeburn and Irving Rootman, John Wiley, Chichester, ISBN 0 471 97137 5 (paper)
Bath Spa University College
So how about it, dear reader?' is the rather unconventional final sentence to a book which offers a spirited and ardently written account of People-Centred Health Promotion (PCHP). Raeburn and Rootman are clearly on a crusade, with their final entreaty to the reader acting as a rallying call. Their ultimate goal is to persuade and empower their targeted audience, whom they refer to as doers' of health promotion or wanting to be doers' (students), to go out and engage in PCHP. In order to achieve this goal, they have put together a text which is
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