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Foundations for Health Promotion

  • 5 Edición - 31 de marzo de 2022
  • Última edición
  • Autor: Jane Wills
  • Idioma: Inglés

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 th… Leer más

Descripción

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.

Puntos claves

  • 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

De interès para

Undergrad and postgrad nursing

Índice

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

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 5
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 7 de abril de 2022
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre el autor

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Jane Wills

Jane Wills is Professor of Health Promotion in the School of Health and Social Care at South Bank University and is also Director of the Centre for Applied Research in Improvement and Innovation (CApRII). She has over 25 years of experience of teaching public health and health promotion. Her research focuses on health education and health literacy and behavioural interventions particularly in relation to obesity. She is a trained counsellor and also teaches motivational interviewing and counselling skills to health care professionals. She has also held numerous external examiner and independent assessor posts, maintaining the discipline of health promotion. Initially qualifying as a teacher, she has a strong interest in pedagogy and student development, regularly publishing with students.
Afiliaciones y experiencia
Professor of Health Promotion, London South Bank University, London, UK