Evolve Resources for Promoting Health, 7th Edition
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The seventh edition of Promoting Health is an essential book for a range of health practitioners to guide their health promotion practice within a comprehensive primary health care context.
With a new author team featuring Jane Taylor and Lily O’Hara, the book explores the socio-ecological determinants of health and wellbeing as a foundation for holistic, ecological, salutogenic health promotion practice. The health promotion practice cycle, including evidence-based community assessment, program planning, implementation and evaluation, is described in detail. The book also includes chapters on five health promotion action areas.
Promoting Health is a comprehensive, easy-to-understand resource that students and practitioners will find themselves returning to throughout their studies and professional practice.
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Additional resources on evolve
• eBook on VitalSource
Instructor resources:
• Chapter reflective questions and model responses
• Chapter quiz questions with correct responses
• Image Gallery
• Weblinks
Student resources:
• Chapter reflective questions
• Chapter quiz questions
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- Updated framework for health promotion practice including distinction between comprehensive and selective primary health care approaches, and the addition of the health promotion practice cycle
- Introduction to the values and principles of critical health promotion and their application within a comprehensive primary health care context
- Increased focus on indigenous perspectives, with current Australian and New Zealand examples
- Quizzes to check understanding of the content of each chapter
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Part 1: Health promotion development and concepts • Chapter 1: Health promotion in context • Chapter 2: Core concepts informing health promotion practice • Chapter 3: Ecological sustainability and human health and wellbeing
Part 2: Health promotion practice • Chapter 4: Program development and evaluation • Chapter 5: Healthy public policy: creating environments and settings that support wellbeing and health promotion • Chapter 6: Community development action for social and environmental change • Chapter 7: Health education and health literacy • Chapter 8: Health information and social marketing • Chapter 9: Immunisation, screening, risk assessment and surveillance