Evolve Resources for Foundations for Health Promotion, 5th Edition
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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.
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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
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