Promoting health in Aotearoa New Zealand / edited by Louise Signal and Mihi Ratima.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. The origins of health promotion -- 3. Māori health promotion -- 4. Pacific health promotion -- 5. Health promotion and immigrant communities: Lessons from a case study of Indian immigrant woment in New Zealand -- 6. Health promotion evaluation and intervention design -- 7. Ethics and health promotion -- 8. Promoting health quity -- 9. The politics of health promotion -- 10. Hauora, health and wellbeing: The right of every child and young person -- 11. Promoting health through the health care sector: Insights from primary care -- 12. Settings-based health promotion -- 13. The health promotion workforce: Challenges and opportunities -- 14. Critical reflections and future challenges. -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Index.

"The health of the planet - and all of us who live on it - is under dire threat from factors such as climate change, obesity and new infectious diseases. Progressive health promotion is an approach that can counterbalance these threats with practice, policy and advocacy for health, well-being and equity. Promoting Health in Aotearoa New Zealand provides a rich scan of the health promotion landscape in New Zealand. It explores ways in which Māori, and other, perspectives have been melded with Western ideas to produce distinctly New Zealand approaches. In doing so it addresses the need for locally written material for use in teaching and practice, and provides direction for all those wanting to solve complex public health problems"--www.otago.ac.nz/press/otago