Publisher's Synopsis
The current concerns of health educators reflect the fact that the tremendous strides made during the past decades to reduce smoking, uncontrolled high blood pressure, advanced stage uterine cancers, and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality are being offset by the logarithmic growth in the number of AIDS cases, the deaths and disabilities caused as a result of "crack" and the destruction of lives resulting from alcohol abuse - all problems having social influences as major components. For their solution such problems demand co-operation between health and social service provider agencies, and while they may represent the minority of health problems, they represent a rapidly growing percentage of health-related costs to society. The fields of health promotion and education are growing rapidly, and this "state-of-the-art" review covers policy, theory, research and evaluation.
