Health Promotion and Health Services: Management for Change provides an innovative new framework for reorientating health services to become more health promoting.Pressure on health services to become more responsive to the health needs of the broader population has led to greater demand for effective change management within the health sector. The authors integrate health promotion and change management theory into a framework designed to reorient health servcices to become more health promoting, and then link this knowledge to practical tools to effect change.
Anne Johnson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public Health Services at Flinders University. She teaches in the Master of Primary Health Care and the Doctorate of Public Health, and has worked as a Health Promotion Consultant at the Women's and Children's Hospital (Adelaide), and Flinders Medical Centre. Anne was awarded the '2005 Leadership Award for Health Promotion' by the Australian Health Promotion Association, SA branch.
Kevin Paton is Principal Lecturer in Organisation Development at Sunderland Business School. He is Programme Leader for the Postgraduate Diploma in Organisation Development and Change in Health and Social Care, and has worked with the World Health Organisation's European Network of Health Promoting Hospitals to create an education programme on Organisation Development and Change.