cover image - Foundations for Health Promotion - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 5th Edition
ISBN: 9780702085086
Copyright: 2023
Publication Date: 05-20-2022
Page Count: 352
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $36.99

Foundations for Health Promotion - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 5th Edition

by Jane Wills, BA, MA, MSc, PGCE

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

cover image - Foundations for Health Promotion - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 5th Edition
ISBN: 9780702085086
Copyright: 2023
Publication Date: 05-20-2022
Page Count: 352
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $36.99
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This hugely popular textbook provides a broad-based and user-friendly introduction to health promotion and its use in practice. Written by Professor Jane Wills, the book takes the reader through health promotion theory, strategy and methods, settings and implementation. It is clearly structured and accessibly written, with a discursive style that will appeal to readers of all levels and sufficient theoretical depth for undergraduates and postgraduates alike. Foundations for Health Promotion is suitable for students and practitioners of nursing, medicine, dentistry, allied health and social work, who will learn the essentials of health promotion as a discipline and reflect on its potential for their own work.
    • 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

  • 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 and methods
    8. Reorienting health services
    9. Developing personal skills
    10. Strengthening community action
    11. Developing healthy public policy
    12. Using media in health promotion
    13. Health promotion and infection control

    Part 3: Settings for health promotion
    14. Health promotion in schools
    15. Health promotion in universities
    16. Health promotion in the workplace
    17. Health promotion in neighbourhoods
    18. Health promotion in health services
    19. Health promotion in prisons

    Part 4: Implementing health promotion
    20. Assessing health needs
    21. Planning health promotion interventions
    22. Evaluation in health promotion
    23. 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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