Foundations for Health Promotion, 5th Edition

• Packed with interactive exercises to consolidate learning
• Focus on application of knowledge to practice
• Self-reflection on practice in each chapter to encourage deeper engagement
• Case studies and research examples provide evidence base for health promotion in different professions and areas of practice

• New chapters on health protection, communicating health and healthy universities
• New chapter on evaluating research and evidence - key components of workforce competencies
• Thoroughly revised and updated throughout to reflect recent changes in health promotion theories, practice and policy
• Accompanying videos narrated by Professor Wills give an overview of key topics

Part 1: The theory of health promotion

• Concepts of health
• Influences on health
• Measuring health
• Defining health promotion
• Models and approaches to health promotion
• Ethical issues in health
• The politics of health promotion

Part 2: Strategies and methods

• Reorienting health services
• Developing personal skills
• Strengthening community action
• Developing healthy public policy
• Using media in health promotion
• Health promotion and infection control

Part 3: Settings for health promotion

• Health promotion in schools
• Health promotion in universities
• Health promotion in the workplace
• Health promotion in neighbourhoods
• Health promotion in health services
• Health promotion in prisons

Part 4: Implementing health promotion

• Assessing health needs
• Planning health promotion interventions
• Evaluation in health promotion
• The importance of being research and evidence informed