Essentials of Health Promotion
eBook - ePub

Essentials of Health Promotion

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Essentials of Health Promotion

About this book

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. It  provides a complete package of information that will lay the groundwork for your learning and future practice and will help you succeed with assignments, essays and exams.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Publisher Note
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. About the authors
  8. Introduction
  9. Section 1 What is health promotion?
  10. 1 What is ‘health’?
  11. 2 Health promotion A historical overview
  12. 3 Health promotion approaches
  13. Section 2 Why health promotion?
  14. 4 The role of health promotion in tackling contemporary health challenges
  15. 5 Inequalities in health
  16. 6 The importance of health promotion values
  17. Section 3 When is health promotion relevant?
  18. 7 Assessing health needs Principles and practice
  19. 8 Valuing lay perspectives
  20. 9 Understanding epidemiology and health profiling
  21. Section 4 Who is responsible for health promotion?
  22. 10 The role of the individual
  23. 11 The role of the state
  24. 12 Partnership working
  25. Section 5 Where is health promotion delivered?
  26. 13 Settings approach Overarching theory
  27. 14 Healthy settings in action
  28. 15 Virtual settings for health
  29. Section 6 How is health promotion practised?
  30. 16 Professional competencies and core skills
  31. 17 Searching and appraising the evidence
  32. 18 Planning and designing health promotion programmes
  33. 19 Health promotion research and evaluation
  34. 20 Communicating effectively
  35. References
  36. Index