Promoting Health - Couverture souple

Taylor

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0729543536 ISBN 13 : 9780729543538

Editeur : Elsevier, 2020

Synopsis

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.

• 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

• Updated framework for health promotion practice including distinction between comprehensive and selective primary health care approaches, and the addition of the health promotion practice cycle
• Introduction to the values and principles of critical health promotion and their application within a comprehensive primary health care context
• Increased focus on indigenous perspectives, with current Australian and New Zealand examples
• Quizzes to check understanding of the content of each chapter

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Elsevier
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0729543536
• ISBN 13: 9780729543538
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 520
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Barbara Criscuolo; b.criscuolo@lswr.it; ; Via Spadolini, 7; Milano; 20141; Italie