cover image - Foundations for Health Promotion - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 5th Edition
ISBN: 9780702085093
Copyright: 2023
Publication Date: 05-24-2022
Page Count: 368
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $33.99

Foundations for Health Promotion - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 5th Edition

by Jane Wills, BA, MA, MSc, PGCE

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cover image - Foundations for Health Promotion - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 5th Edition
ISBN: 9780702085093
Copyright: 2023
Publication Date: 05-24-2022
Page Count: 368
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $33.99
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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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