Promoting Health: A Practical Guide - E-Book

Ewles & Simnett

Angela Scriven

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9780702066948
• Edition: 7
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Nursing

Promoting Health: A Practical Guide continues to offer health promotion workers with an essential guide to day-to-day planning and service delivery in a variety of different areas of practice.

• Describes the international and national strategies and movements that have emerged to reduce inequalities in health
• Examines the concept of need and provides tools to assist in the identification of health promotion needs
• Contains almost 50 exercises and 20 Case Studies to engage readers and reinforce learning
• Describes the knowledge and skills required to draw on evidence, undertake research and use various techniques to inform and prioritise health promotion practice
• Shows how to ensure that health promotion work contributes to local and national strategies
• Looks at the concept of 'value for money' via learning ways of thinking based in health economics
• Shows how to develop key skills that include information management, report writing, time management, project management, and change management
• Looks at the effectiveness of good communication skills and emphasises the importance of establishing high-quality professional relationships
• Provides practical guidance on the preparation of communication tools which range from leaflets, posters and display boards to the use of radio and television

• Describes changes to the structure and organisation of public health within the UK, including the latest national standards for work in health promotion and public health
• Outlines new research on the comparative effectiveness of different approaches to health promotion and public health practice
• Explores the development of public health communication strategies, including social marketing, social media campaigns, and use of pressure groups and 'nudging'
• Highlights the latest 'current thinking' across a variety of different settings, to ensure relevance to a broad array of practitioners working across differing settings
• Explores the increasing use of the internet to help individuals monitor and support their own wellbeing

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Part I: Thinking about health, health promotion and public health
• Part II: Planning and managing health promotion and public health practice
• Part III: Competencies in health promotion and public health practice
• Index