ISBN:
9780702054426
Copyright:
2016
Page Count:
340
Imprint:
Elsevier
List Price:
$62.95
Foundations for Health Promotion, 4th Edition
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ISBN:
9780702054426
Copyright:
2016
Page Count:
340
Imprint:
Elsevier
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The new edition of the highly successful Foundations for Health Promotion continues to offer a wealth of information in a unique, user-friendly format. Containing over 300 artworks, tables and 'pull out' boxes, this helpful text covers the theory, strategies and methods, settings and implementation of health promotion. Applicable to a wide range of health and social care professionals and anyone engaged with education about health and wellbeing.
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- Comprehensive updating and expansion to reflect recent research findings and major organizational and policy changes
- Clear structure and signposting for ease of reading and study
- Wide choice of examples and illustrative case studies reflect the needs of a variety of professional groups in health services, local and municipal services and education
- Ineractive learning activities with indicative answers help readers consolidate their learning
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- Comprehensively updated and expanded to reflect major organizational and policy changes
- Interactive learning activities with indicative answers at the end of each chapter
- 'Pull out' boxes illustrate recent research findings and case studies of practice
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PART 1: THE THEORY OF HEALTH PROMOTION
1. Concepts of health
2. Influences on health
3. Measuring health
4. Defining health promotion
5. Models and approaches to health promotion
6. Ethical issues in health
7. The politics of health promotion
PART 2: STRATEGIES & METHODS8. Reorienting health services
9. Developing personal skills
10. Strengthening community action
11. Developing healthy public policy
12. Using media in health promotion
PART 3: SETTINGS FOR HEALTH PROMOTION13. Health promotion in schools
14. Health promotion in the workplace
15. Health promotion in neighbourhoods
16. Health promotion in health services
17. Health promotion in prisons
PART 4: IMPLEMENTING HEALTH PROMOTION18. Assessing health needs
19. Planning health promotion interventions
20. Evaluation in health promotion
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Jane Wills, BA, MA, MSc, PGCE, Professor of Health Promotion, London South Bank University, London, UK and Jennie Naidoo, BSc, MSc, PGDip, PGCE, Principal Lecturer, Health Promotion and Public Health, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
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