The interplay of structure and agency in health promotion: Integrating a concept of structural change and the policy dimension into a multi-level model and applying it to health promotion principles and practice

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 953-959

  Rütten, Alfred ^a   Gelius, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Germany; Health promotion policy; Health promotion theory; Inequality paradox; Multi level model; Physical activity; Structure and agency

Indexed keywords

HEALTH POLICY; PUBLIC HEALTH; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; CAPACITY BUILDING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY CARE; GERMANY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EXERCISE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC POLICY;

GERMANY;

EID: 80052668494     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.07.010     Document Type: Article

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