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 the structuring of such a field of research. 

This collection of original contributions explores 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 the creation of a global community of health promotion researchers. 

The handbook is organized by four types of practices (what people actually do) studied in health promotion; the practices of:

• Individuals and populations in relation to their health and itsdeterminants
• Professionals who intervene to improve population health
• Policy-makers and institutions involved in the advocacy, design, and implementation of policies and programs
• Researchers and innovators (academic scholars and global agencies) through which investment in research and production of evidence-based guidelines are made.

Global Handbook of Health Promotion Research, Vol. 1: Mapping 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.

Chapter 1. A Global Participatory Process to Structuring the Field of Health Promotion Research: An Introduction

Chapter 2. Mapping Health Promotion Research: Organising the Diversity of Research Practices
Chapter 3. Design-Based Research on Active Family Involvement: Developing a family Toolbox to Support Health Care Professionals Working with Diabetes Management.
Chapter 4. Action research with people being treated for cancer or a rare disease. Health mediation central to their experiences and their inclusion
Chapter 5. Critical health promotion and participatory research: knowledge production for and with young people experiencing homelessness in Scotland
Chapter 6. Acting-in-Context: a methodological and theorical approach to understanding Individuals' Actions in the Context of Poverty 
Chapter 7. Participatory health promotion research with children
Chapter 8. School-based programs as a research platform for improving oral health and reducing malariamorbidity
Chapter 9. Proposed title: Fostering cultural safety in healthcare through a decolonizing approach to research with, for and by Indigenous communities
Chapter 10. Doing research with people: Hepatitis C and intensive engagement with high-risk occupational groups in Karachi, Pakistan
Chapter 11. Respectful Maternity Care: A Methodological Journey from Research to Policy and Action
Chapter 12. Valuing indigenous health promotion knowledge and practices: the local dialogue workshop as a method to engage and empower matrons and other traditional healers in Haiti
Chapter 13. Aligning research practices with health promotion values: Ethical Considerations from the Community Health Worker Common Indicators Project
Chapter 14. Investing in health promotion research among Community Health Workers in semi-rural Uganda using a partnership approach
Chapter 15. Intersectoriality and health promotion research: the perspective of practitioners from a Brazilianexperience
Chapter 16. Capabilities and transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge: Linking the social practices of researchers, policymakers, professionals, and populations to promote active lifestyles
Chapter 17. Conducting embedded health promotion research: Lessons learned from the Health On the Go study in Ecuador
Chapter 18. Doing collaborative health promotion research in a complex setting. Lessons learned from the COMPLETE project in Norway
Chapter 19. Researching the Process of Implementing Mental Health Promotion: Case studies on interventions with disadvantaged young people
Chapter 20. Skill-based health education for health promotion among school adolescents through participatory action research: A case from Nepal
Chapter 21. Evaluating health promotion in schools: a contextual action-oriented research approach
Chapter 22. Developing school health promotion through research : An example of a participatory action research project
Chapter 23. Fourth Generation Realist Evaluation: Research Practice to Empower the NGO. A Reflection on the Case of Sport for Social Change
Chapter 24. A successful intervention research collaboration between a supermarket chain, local government, non-government organisation, and academic researchers: The Eat Well @ IGA healthy supermarket partnership
Chapter 25. Participatory approaches to research intersectoral actions in local communities : Using theory of change, systems thinking and qualitative research to engage different stakeholders and foster transformative research processes
Chapter 26. Research on complex health promotion interventions in local community settings
Chapter 27. The contribution of health promotion re-search in advancing local policies: new knowledge, lexicon, and practice-research network
Chapter 28. Implementation research on comprehensive sexuality education in Ghana: Lessons for health promotion research
Chapter 29. Oral Health promotion intervention/research: a pathway to social justice applied to the context of New Caledonia
Chapter 30. Methodological Reflections on 'SMART Eating' Trial: Lessons for Health Promotion Practice Development
Chapter 31. Researching the practices of policy makers in implementing a social policy intervention in Ghana
Chapter 32. Capturing complexity in health promotion intervention research : Conducting critical realist evaluation
Chapter 33. Using critical theory to research commercial determinants of health : Health impact assessment of the practices and products of transnational corporations 
Chapter 34. Streamlining Knowledge for better health policies: the "Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Knowledge Gateway
Chapter 35. Collaborative Health Promotion Research in Europe - Experiences and relevance for health promotion at the municipal level
Chapter 36. Producing and Sharing Knowledge: A collaborative work to produce the New Greek Child Health Booklet
Chapter 37. From the Production to the Use of Scientific Knowledge: A Continuous Dialogue Between Researchers, Knowledge mobilization specialists and Users
Chapter 38. A critical health promotion research approach using the Red Lotus Critical Health Promotion Model
Chapter 39. Making Reflexivity and Emotions visible. The contribution of Logbooks and Polar Semantic Maps in Health Promotion Research.
Chapter 40. Steering committee: participatory device to support knowledge flow and utilization in health promotion
Chapter 41. Reflections on health promotion research in the field of health-promoting health care: The what, why and how of the Viennese tradition
Chapter 42. Addressing the complexity of school health promotion through interdisciplinary approaches- an invitation to think wildly about research
Chapter 43. Fitting Health Promotion Research with Real-Life Conditions: Viability Evaluation
Chapter 44. A system's approach to research practice in the co-production of evidence aboutpartnership-based health promotion interventions
Chapter 45. Researching the Aesthetics of Health Promotion Interventions: Reflections on Fit to Drive, a Long-running Road Safety Education Program
Chapter 46. Researchers as policy Entrepreneurs for Structural Change: Interactive research for promoting processes towards health equity
Chapter 47. Reflections on mainstreaming health equity in a large research collaboration: "If I can't dance it is not my revolution"
Chapter 48. Studying the Case de Santé de Toulouse (France) as a propaedeutic step
Chapter 49. Brazilian experiences in interdisciplinary networks: from advocacy to intersectoral participatory research and implementation
Chapter 50. Researching a diverse epistemic social movement : The challenges and rewards of European Healthy Cities realist synthesis
Chapter 51. Researching Health for All in South Australia: reflections on sustainability and partnership
Chapter 52. Markers of Ethical References in Health Promotion Research
Chapter 53. Markers of the Objects Studied in Health Promotion Research
Chapter 52. Markers of an Epistemological Framework in Health Promotion Research
Chapter 53. Conclusion: Characterising the Field of Health Promotion Research.