ISBN:
9780443245299
Copyright:
2026
Publication Date:
10-14-2025
Page Count:
736
Imprint:
Elsevier
List Price:
$97.99
Edelman's Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource, 11th Edition
by Carole Lium Edelman, MSN, GCNS-BC, CMC and Elizabeth Connelly Kudzma, DNSc, MPH, WHNP-BC, CNL
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource
ISBN:
9780443245299
Copyright:
2026
Publication Date:
10-14-2025
Page Count:
736
Imprint:
Elsevier
List Price:
$97.99
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Help your students learn health promotion for all ages and population groups! Edelman’s Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span, 11th Edition, provides comprehensive coverage of leading health promotion concepts, from assessment to interventions to application. Its lifespan approach addresses patients’ unique needs with case studies and care plans presented within an assessment framework based on Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns. Addressing each age and stage of development, this market-leading text covers the latest research and trends in health promotion and disease prevention for diverse population groups.
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- NEW! Greater emphasis on social determinants of health (SDOH) explores this key topic in public health nursing
- NEW! Completely revised chapters reflect the most current practice from experts in the field
- NEW! Content explores increased health inequity in the US, the evolving global health outcomes as a result of COVID, and increased involvement of at-risk communities
- NEW! Evidence addresses healthcare decisions, as well as maintaining the health and wellbeing of healthcare professionals
- NEW! Updated language reflects the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model to align with the Next-Generation NCLEX® exam
- NEW! Updated photos and graphics freshen the view and visually reinforce essential content
- Separate chapters on population groups — the individual, family, and community — highlight the unique aspects of assessment and health promotion for each group
- Coverage of growth and development helps apply health promotion concepts to each age and each stage of development through the lifespan
- Case studies present realistic situations with questions asking students to apply key concepts to further develop clinical judgment
- Quality and Safety Scenario boxes focus on QSEN-related competencies with examples of health promotion
- Innovative Practice boxes outline unique and creative health promotion programs and projects currently being implemented
- Research for Evidence-Based Practice boxes summarize current health-promotion studies showing the links between research, theory, and practice
- Healthy People boxes present goals and objectives relating to national health issues and priorities
- Care plans include patient problems, defining characteristics, related factors, expected outcomes, and interventions
- Diversity Awareness boxes address cultural perspectives relating to planning care
- Hot Topics boxes introduce significant issues, trends, and controversies in health promotion
- Think About It clinical scenarios open each chapter and include questions to encourage clinical judgment
- This title is also available in Sherpath! Sold separately, this innovative teaching and learning technology offers interactive course content and resources that streamline class preparation and assessment and give students personalized help to reach their learning goals. Sherpath fully includes the ebook of this title for all-in-one digital course delivery.
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Unit 1 Foundations for Health Promotion
1. Health Defined: Health Promotion, Protection, and Prevention
2. Communities at Risk 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 and Health Promotion
10. Health Education
11. Nutrition Counseling for Health Promotion
12. Physical Activity
13. Stress Management
14. Complementary, Integrative, and Alternative Strategies
Unit 4 Application of Health Promotion
15. Overview of Growth and Development Framework
16. The Childbearing 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 21st Century: Throughout the Life Span and Throughout the World
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