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cover image - Foundations for Health Promotion,5th Edition
ISBN: 9780702085062
Copyright: 2023
Publication Date: 06-16-2022
Page Count: 368
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $43.99

Foundations for Health Promotion, 5th Edition

by Jane Wills, BA, MA, MSc, PGCE

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ISBN: 9780702085062
Copyright: 2023
Publication Date: 06-16-2022
Page Count: 368
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $43.99
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    • 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
  • Jane Wills, BA, MA, MSc, PGCE, Professor of Health Promotion, London South Bank University, London, UK

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