... is important to emphasise that the pair of them have developed a very good relationship. Mrs Pugh has always been a fiercely independent lady and doesn't take kindly to any, as she puts it, interference in her personal life. However, the relationship she has with her carer is very important to her. Health promotion is based on theories about what influences peoples' health and then what constitutes an effective intervention or strategy to improve health (Naidoo and Wills 1999). These theories are based on research. Research may be defined as 'any systematic information-gathering activity which is used to describe, explain or explore an issue in order to generate new knowledge' suggests Naidoo and Wills (1999). Research for health promotion derives from public health and epidemiology, which is concerned with the pattern of disease in a population. Last (1994) describes epidemiology as 'completing the clinical picture'. Research has a much higher profile in ...

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