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The chapter outlines a comprehensive framework for analysing, planning, implementing and researching health promotion in real-life contexts and discusses the specific kind of knowledge that can be generated by using a principled approach in health promotion research. We present five guiding principles informing health promotion interventions as well as health promotion research: (1) a broad and positive health concept, (2) participation and involvement, (3) action and action competence, (4) a setting approach and (5) equity in health. Together the five principles characterize a comprehensive approach termed ‘Health Promotion version 2.0’. The five principles make up an analytical and operational framework, which captures the key elements of health promotion from a theoretical research perspective, but can also assist healthcare practitioners in their practical planning as well as guide health promotion research and evaluation. As such, we treat the field of health promotion practice as our research ontology and the principled approach as our research epistemology.
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Grabowski, D., Aagaard-Hansen, J., Jensen, B.B. (2023). Principled Health Promotion Research: A Comprehensive and Action-Oriented Approach. In: Jourdan, D., Potvin, L. (eds) Global Handbook of Health Promotion Research, Vol. 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20401-2_23
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