
Promoting Health
The Primary Health Care Approach
- 7th Edition - August 22, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Jane Taylor, Lily O’Hara, Lyn Talbot, Glenda Verrinder
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 4 3 5 3 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 8 8 1 2 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 8 8 9 5 - 9
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Request a sales quoteThe 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.- Grounded in internationally recognised WHO health promotion frameworks including the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and subsequent charters and declarations
- The role of systemic determinants of health and wellbeing including the social, economic, cultural, political, natural and built environments for a sustainable future
- Sets of questions on putting the Ottawa Charter into practice
- Tables that map chapter content to relevant International Union for Health Promotion and Education core competencies
- More to Explore sections with additional resources
- Reflective questions that enable consolidation of learning through practice activities
- An eBook included with all print purchases
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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
• Weblinks
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- GLOSSARY
- PART 1: Health promotion development and concepts
- Introduction to PART 1: HEALTH PROMOTION DEVELOPMENT AND CONCEPTS
- Chapter 1: Health promotion in context
- INTRODUCTION
- HEALTH STATUS AND HEALTH INEQUALITIES
- SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND WELLBEING
- WHO GLOBAL RESPONSES TO HEALTH AND WELLBEING
- HEALTH PROMOTION
- A FRAMEWORK FOR HEALTH PROMOTION PRACTICE WITHIN A CPHC CONTEXT
- COMPREHENSIVE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE INTO THE FUTURE
- CONCLUSION
- Chapter 2: Core concepts informing health promotion practice
- INTRODUCTION
- HEALTH, WELLBEING, QUALITY OF LIFE AND SALUTOGENESIS
- CONCEPTS RELATED TO INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND WELLBEING
- CONCEPTS RELATED TO POPULATION-LEVEL SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND WELLBEING
- COMMUNITY AS A FOCUS OF HEALTH PROMOTION PRACTICE
- CONCLUSION
- Chapter 3: Ecological sustainability and human health and wellbeing
- INTRODUCTION
- ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY CONCEPTS
- IMPACT OF ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY ON HEALTH AND WELLBEING
- ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY AND AUSTRALIA
- ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY AND NEW ZEALAND
- LOCAL-LEVEL HEALTH PROMOTION ACTION FOR SUSTAINABILITY
- CONCLUSION
- PART 2: Health promotion practice
- Introduction to PART 2: HEALTH PROMOTION PRACTICE
- Chapter 4: Health promotion practice
- INTRODUCTION
- HEALTH PROMOTION MODELS
- HEALTH PROMOTION PRACTICE CYCLE
- RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
- STAGE 1: COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT
- STAGE 2: PLANNING THE HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAM
- STAGE 3: IMPLEMENTING THE HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAM
- STAGE 4: EVALUATING THE HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAM
- CONCLUSION
- Chapter 5: Healthy public policy to create environments and settings that support health and wellbeing
- INTRODUCTION
- BUILDING HEALTHY PUBLIC POLICY
- HEALTH IN ALL POLICIES
- PUBLIC POLICYMAKING PROCESS
- HEALTHY PUBLIC POLICY AT ALL LEVELS: TOBACCO CONTROL CASE EXAMPLE
- HEALTH PROMOTING SETTINGS
- ADVOCATING FOR HEALTHY PUBLIC POLICY
- INTERSECTORAL COLLABORATION AND PARTNERSHIPS
- CONCLUSION
- Chapter 6: Community development action for social and environmental change
- INTRODUCTION
- PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
- COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE
- COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE ROLES, SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES
- SOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
- CHALLENGES FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE
- EVALUATING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE
- CONCLUSION
- Chapter 7: Health education and health literacy to develop knowledge and skills for health and wellbeing action
- INTRODUCTION
- HEALTH EDUCATION AND HEALTH LITERACY
- PLANNING HEALTH EDUCATION STRATEGIES
- SKILLS FOR EDUCATING GROUPS AND COMMUNITIES
- WORKING WITH GROUPS
- CONCLUSION
- Chapter 8: Health information and social marketing to raise awareness about health and wellbeing priorities
- INTRODUCTION
- SOCIAL MARKETING
- STEPS OF SOCIAL MARKETING
- INTEGRATING SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIAL MARKETING
- SOCIAL MARKETING SKILLS
- CONCLUSION
- Chapter 9: Vaccination, screening, risk assessment and surveillance
- INTRODUCTION
- VACCINATION
- POPULATION SCREENING
- INDIVIDUAL RISK FACTOR ASSESSMENT
- RISK ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS
- SURVEILLANCE
- CONCLUSION
- Declaration of Alma-Ata
- The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
- Shanghai Declaration on Promoting Health in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
- Declaration of Astana on Primary Health Care
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- The Earth Charter Preamble
- INDEX
- Edition: 7
- Published: August 22, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 520
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780729543538
- eBook ISBN: 9780729588126
- eBook ISBN: 9780729588959
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