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Promoting Health

The Primary Health Care Approach

  • 7th Edition - August 22, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Jane Taylor, Lily O’Hara, Lyn Talbot, Glenda Verrinder
  • Language: English

The 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 ca… Read more

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The 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.

Key features

  • 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

Additional resources on evolve
• eBook on VitalSource
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

Table of contents

Part 1: Health promotion development and concepts

1. Health promotion in context

2. Core concepts informing health promotion practice

3. Ecological sustainability and human health and wellbeing

Part 2: Health promotion practice

4. Program development and evaluation

5. Healthy public policy: creating environments and settings that support wellbeing and health promotion

6. Community development action for social and environmental change

7. Health education and health literacy

8. Health information and social marketing

9. Immunisation, screening, risk assessment and surveillance

Product details

  • Edition: 7
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 11, 2021
  • Language: English

About the authors

JT

Jane Taylor

Jane Taylor works at the School of Health, University of Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia.
Affiliations and expertise
School of Health, University of Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia

LO

Lily O’Hara

Affiliations and expertise
School of Medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD

LT

Lyn Talbot

Affiliations and expertise
Corporate and Community Planner—Strategy, City of Greater Bendigo, VIC, Australia

GV

Glenda Verrinder

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer, La Trobe Rural Health School, School of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, VIC, Australia