DEAN WHITEHEAD is Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Services at Massey University, New Zealand. He is a prolific researcher and publisher whose main focus lies in health promotion and health education theory and practice, health policy, public health, population health and primary health care. I have over 100 peer-reviewed international theoretical/research publications in these fields and I recently received the Emerald LiteratiNetwork 'Highly Commended Award for Excellence 2006' for my work in this area. FIONA IRVINE is Professor of Nursing at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.  In addition to her professorial role for the university, Fiona is also Co-Director of LLAIS, a Wales Office of Research and Development funded initiative that offers advice and consultancy on enhancing Welsh language awareness across CRC Cymru, the new R&D infrastructure in Wales; and maintains a research network portfolio on language appropriate practice.

• PrefaceContextualizing Health Promotion; F.IrvineHealth Promotion Theory, Models and Approaches; R.CrossHealth Promotion and the Role and Function of the Nurse; T.Warne & S.McAndrewA Systematic Approach to Health Promotion; D.WhiteheadSettings-based Health Promotion; D.WhiteheadEvidence-based Practice in Health Promotion; S.MackayHealth Promotion – Politics, Policy& Ethics; R.ThomsonCurrent and Future Developments in Health Promotion; C.Bradbury-Jones

DEAN WHITEHEAD is Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Services at Massey University, New Zealand. He is a prolific researcher and publisher whose main focus lies in health promotion and health education theory and practice, health policy, public health, population health and primary health care. I have over 100 peer-reviewed international theoretical/research publications in these fields and I recently received the Emerald LiteratiNetwork 'Highly Commended Award for Excellence 2006' for my work in this area. FIONA IRVINE is Professor of Nursing at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.  In addition to her professorial role for the university, Fiona is also Co-Director of LLAIS, a Wales Office of Research and Development funded initiative that offers advice and consultancy on enhancing Welsh language awareness across CRC Cymru, the new R&D infrastructure in Wales; and maintains a research network portfolio on language appropriate practice.

• PrefaceContextualizing Health Promotion; F.IrvineHealth Promotion Theory, Models and Approaches; R.CrossHealth Promotion and the Role and Function of the Nurse; T.Warne & S.McAndrewA Systematic Approach to Health Promotion; D.WhiteheadSettings-based Health Promotion; D.WhiteheadEvidence-based Practice in Health Promotion; S.MackayHealth Promotion – Politics, Policy& Ethics; R.ThomsonCurrent and Future Developments in Health Promotion; C.Bradbury-Jones