Main description:

While research teams are producing relevant and valid knowledge for health promotion, there is not yet a structured manual and distinct field of health promotion research. This timely "state-of-the-art" handbook contributes to structuring the field of health promotion research.

This collection presents introductory-level methodological solutions to the major epistemological, methodological, and ethical challenges facing health promotion research. It brings together experts from different "research traditions" that coexist in the field. The handbook covers the existing knowledge production and sharing practices to delineate the "discipline" and its agenda for future research. Ultimately, it contributes to creating a global community of health promotion researchers.

This volume concerns research practices relevant to the production and sharing of knowledge about health promotion practices. It is organized as follows:

Part I presents some paradigms and approaches to knowledge production relevant to health promotion research.
Parts II to V describe research designs and methods that specifically address health promotion research.
Part VI includes an overview of the challenges facing health promotion research and suggests ways forward.

Global Handbook of Health Promotion Research, Vol. 3: Doing Health Promotion Research is a highly relevant reference tool for researchers and graduate students in health promotion, public health, education, and socio-health sciences; practitioners in health, medical, and social sectors; policy-makers; and health research administrators.

Contents:

Chapter 1 A global participatory process to structuring the field of health promotion research: An introduction

Louise Potvin

Didier Jourdan

Chapter 2 Doing health promotion research: paradigms, approaches and strategies of inquiries to produce knowledge

Didier Jourdan

Louise Potvin

Part I - Approaches to knowledge production in health promotion research
Chapter 3 Health Promotion Political Research as Policy Practice

Evelyne de Leeuw

Chapter 4 Underlying Principles of Different Schools of Economic Thought: Consequences for Health Promotion

Alan Shiell, Hannah Jackson, Penelope Hawe

Chapter 5 Critical Realism for Health Promotion Evaluation

Sarah Louart, Valery Ridde

Chapter 6 Empowerment in Health Promotion of Marginalised Groups: The Use of Paulo Freire's Theoretical Approach and Community-based Participatory Research for Health Equity

Andrea Rodriguez, Nilza Rogeria de Andrade Nunes

Chapter 7 Health Promotion in Primary Care: Michel Foucault's Genealogy to Analyse Changes in Practices

Fernanda Carlise Mattioni, Cristianne Maria Famer Rocha

Chapter 8 Health Promotion as a Complex Assemblage: Science and Technology Studies as Method

Peter Kelly, Kerry Montero

Chapter 9
The Contribution of Feminist Approaches to Health Promotion Research: Supporting Social Change and Health Improvement for Vulnerable Women in England

Louise Warwick-Booth, Ruth Cross, Susan Coan

Part II - Methodological responses to enabling interactions among all relevant knowledge

Chapter 10 Etuaptmumk/Two-eyed Seeing: A Guiding Principle to Respectfully Embrace Indigenous and Western Systems of Knowledge

Marie-Claude Tremblay, Debbie H. Martin

Chapter 11 Capturing the Lived Experience of Place in Health Promotion Research: In-Situ Methodologies

Stephanie A. Alexander, Martine Shareck, Nicole M. Glenn

Chapter 12 Using Salutogenesis to Understand People-Environment Interactions that Shape Health in a Context of Poverty

Valerie Makoge, Harro Maat

Part III - Methodological responses to unpacking the complex context/practice interactions

Chapter 13 Interventions Tested in Randomised Controlled Trials Can and Should Adapt to Context: Here's How

Penelope Hawe

Chapter 14 The Ongoing Contribution of Health Impact Assessment to Health Promotion Research

Jean Simos, Derek Christie, Francoise Jabot, Anne Roue Le Gall, Nicola Cantoreggi

Chapter 15 A Theory-driven Approach to Unpack the Black Box of Complex Interventions: Assessing Interventional Systems

Linda Cambon, Francois Alla

Chapter 16 Using a Realist Approach in Qualitative Research to Analyze Connections Among Context, Intervention and Outcome

Suzanne F. Jackson

Chapter 17 Using Mixed Methods to Evaluate Complex Interventions: From Research Questions to Knowledge Transferability

Marie-Renee Guevel, Gaetan Absil

Part IV - Methodological responses to regulating stakeholders' collaborations

Chapter 18 Participatory Action Research as a Core Research Approach to Health Promotion

Jane Springett, Tina Cook , Krystyna Kongats

Chapter 19 Participative Research Processes: Working with Children for Children

Saoirse Nic Gabhainn, Colette Kelly, Jane Sixsmith

Chapter 20 Promoting Health Equity with Community-based Participatory Research: The Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments (CAPHE) Partnership

Amy J. Schulz, Barbara A. Israel, Angela G. Reyes, Donele Wilkins, Stuart Batterman

Chapter 21 Health Promotion Research in International Settings: A Shared Ownership Approach for North-South Partnerships

Linda Gibson, Deborah Ikhile, Mathew Nyashanu, David Musoke

Part V - Methodological responses to bridging the knowledge/practice gap

Chapter 22 Citizen Science for Health Promotion Research: Emerging Best Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities for Advancing Health Equity

Benjamin W. Chrisinger, Patricia Rodriguez Espinosa, Praveena K. Fernes, Lisa G. Rosas, Ann W. Banchoff, Abby C. King

Chapter 23 Principled Health Promotion Research: A Comprehensive and Action-oriented Approach

Dan Grabowski, Jens Aagaard-Hansen, Bjarne Bruun Jensen

Chapter 24 Health Promotion Research in the School Setting

Lawrence St.Leger

Chapter 25 Health Promotion Intervention Research in Complex Adaptive Systems: The Contextual Action-oriented Research Approach (CARA)

Nina Bartelink, Patricia van Assema, Maria Jansen, Hans Savelberg, Stef Kremers

Chapter 26 Conclusion: Addressing the Challenges of Doing Health Promotion Research

Louise Potvin and Didier Jourdan

Appendix: Overview of the Chapters
Index