Essentials of Health Promotion
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A complete one-stop-shop for any student of health promotion. How to improve and protect public health is one of the biggest questions facing the 21st century and this book exists to help tackle it head on. Setting out the What, Why, When, Who, Where and How of health promotion across 20 bite-sized chapters. It explores the full range of theories, context and strategies that influence contemporary health promotion.
Key features: Comprehensive coverage: all facets of health promotion introduced and explained Combines the theoretical with the practical: knowledge blended with the key skills and attributes needed for effective health promotion Extensive range of global case studies: read about the enormous range of possibilities and creative ways health promotion can be achieved This is the ideal textbook for any undergraduate or pre-registration student starting their health promotion or public health journey.
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- SAGE Publications, Ltd. (UK)
- 9781529765212
- 9781526496232
- ePub
- 1
- James Woodall; Ruth Cross
- English
- 2021-10-06
- 100
- 30
- 30
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- About the authors
- Introduction
- Section 1: What is health promotion?
- 1 What is ‘health’?
- 2 Health promotion: a historical overview
- 3 Health promotion approaches
- Section 2: Why health promotion?
- 4 The role of health promotion in tackling contemporary health challenges
- 5 Inequalities in health
- 6 The importance of health promotion values
- Section 3: When is health promotion relevant?
- 7 Assessing health needs: principles and practice
- 8 Valuing lay perspectives
- 9 Understanding epidemiology and health profiling
- Section 4: Who is responsible for health promotion?
- 10 The role of the individual
- 11 The role of the state
- 12 Partnership working
- Section 5: Where is health promotion delivered?
- 13 Settings approach: overarching theory
- 14 Healthy settings in action
- 15 Virtual settings for health
- Section 6: How is health promotion practised?
- 16 Professional competencies and core skills
- 17 Searching and appraising the evidence
- 18 Planning and designing health promotion programmes
- 19 Health promotion research and evaluation
- 20 Communicating effectively
- References
- Index