Promoting Health
The Primary Health Care Approach
- 8th Edition - March 20, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Jane Taylor, Lily O’Hara
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 4 4 7 1 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 9 8 4 9 - 1
Promoting Health: The Primary Health Care Approach 8e supports a broad range of practitioners to understand the key values, principles, concepts and practices of health promotion… Read more
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Promoting Health: The Primary Health Care Approach 8e supports a broad range of practitioners to understand the key values, principles, concepts and practices of health promotion in a primary health care context and apply these in their everyday work as health professionals.
The book comprehensively explores the role of structural and systemic determinants of health and health equity, and the social, cultural, economic, commercial, political, natural and built environments.
Fully updated throughout, the eighth edition addresses current global and local issues that impact on population health, including political and economic instability, climate change and pandemics.
- End of chapter reflective questions that enable users to consolidate their learning through practice activities and develop their health promotion competencies
- Covers hot topics, including climate and health, health equity, and the social, commercial and political determinants of health and wellbeing
- Each chapter aligned to core professional competencies for health promotion practice
- Aligned to the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion action areas
- Practice insights are presented throughout to demonstrate the application of concepts
Student resources on Evolve:
- Chapter reflective questions
- Chapter quiz questions
Facilitator resources on Evolve:
- Model responses to
- Chapter reflective questions
- Chapter quiz questions
- Image Gallery
1. Critical health promotion practice in a comprehensive primary health care context
2. Socio-ecological determinants of health and wellbeing
3. Ecological sustainability and human health and wellbeing
4. Health promotion practice
5. Building healthy public policy and creating supportive environments
6. Strengthening community action
7. Developing personal skills through health education
8. Developing personal skills through social marketing
9. Reorienting health services
Appendix
1. Declaration of Alma-Ata
2. The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
3. Shanghai Declaration on Promoting Health in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
4. Declaration of Astana on Primary Health Care
5. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
6. The Earth Charter Preamble
7. Geneva Charter for Well-being
- Edition: 8
- Published: March 20, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
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, AustraliaLO
Lily O’Hara
Affiliations and expertise
School of Medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD