ISBN:
9780323416764
Copyright:
2018
Publication Date:
10-03-2017
Page Count:
720
Imprint:
Mosby
List Price:
$98.99
Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 9th Edition
by Carole Lium Edelman, MSN, GCNS-BC, CMC and Elizabeth Connelly Kudzma, DNSc, MPH, WHNP-BC, CNL
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource - Access Card
ISBN:
9780323416764
Copyright:
2018
Publication Date:
10-03-2017
Page Count:
720
Imprint:
Mosby
List Price:
$98.99
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Help your students learn health promotion for all ages and population groups! Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span, 9th Edition provides a comprehensive guide to leading health promotion concepts, from assessment to interventions to application. Its lifespan approach addresses patients’ unique needs with case studies and care plans, with an assessment framework based on Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns. New to this edition is expanded coverage of genomics and QSEN competencies. Addressing each age and stage of development, this market-leading text covers all the latest research and trends in health promotion and disease prevention.
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- NEW! An increased focus on genomics reflects scientific evidence supporting the use of genetic tests and family health history to guide public health interventions.
- Separate chapters on population groups — the individual, family, and community — highlight the unique aspects of assessment and health promotion for each group.
- NEW! Expanded discussion of QSEN competencies is included, as related to health promotion.
- NEW! The latest information about the Affordable Care Act is included.
- NEW! Guidelines and recommendations are included from the latest Guide to Clinical Preventive Services from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
- Case studies present realistic situations with questions challenging students to apply key concepts, and care plans include nursing diagnoses, defining characteristics, related factors, expected outcomes, and interventions.
- NEW! Updated photos bring a fresh look and feel to the text.
- Coverage of growth and development helps students apply health promotion concepts to each age and each stage of development through the lifespan.
- Diversity Awareness boxes address cultural perspectives relating to planning care.
- Healthy People 2020 boxes present goals and objectives relating to national health issues and priorities.
- Quality and Safety Scenario boxes focus on QSEN-related competencies with examples of health promotion.
- Think About It clinical scenarios open each chapter, and include questions to encourage critical thinking.
- Research for Evidence-Based Practice boxes summarize current health-promotion studies showing the links between research, theory, and practice.
- Innovative Practice boxes outline unique and creative health promotion programs and projects currently being implemented.
- Hot Topics boxes encourage students to think about and discuss significant issues, trends, and controversies in health promotion.
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- NEW! An increased focus on genomics reflects scientific evidence supporting the use of genetic tests and family health history to guide public health interventions.
- NEW! Expanded discussion of QSEN competencies is included, as related to health promotion.
- NEW! Guidelines and recommendations are included from the latest Guide to Clinical Preventive Services from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
- NEW! The latest information about the Affordable Care Act is included.
- NEW! Updated photos reflect the latest in health promotion and disease prevention.
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Unit 1: Foundations for Health Promotion
1. Health Defined: Objectives for Promotion and Prevention
2. Emerging Populations and Health
3. Health Policy and the Delivery System
4. The Therapeutic Relationship
5. Ethical Issues Related to Health Promotion
Unit 2: Assessment for Health Promotion
6. Health Promotion and the Individual
7. Health Promotion and the Family
8. Health Promotion and the Community
Unit 3: Interventions for Health Promotion
9. Screening
10. Health Education
11. Nutrition Counseling for Health Promotion
12. Exercise
13. Stress Management
14. Complementary and Alternative Strategies
Unit 4: Application of Health Promotion
15. Overview of Growth and Development Framework
16. The Prenatal Period
17. Infant
18. Toddler
19. Preschool Child
20. School-Age Child
21. Adolescent
22. Young Adult
23. Middle-Age Adult
24. Older Adult
Unit 5: Emerging Global Health Issues
25. Health Promotion for the Twenty-First Century: Throughout the Life Span and Throughout the World
