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Essentials of Health Promotion
First Edition
- James Woodall
- Ruth Cross - Leeds Beckett University, UK
Other Titles in:
Community / Public Health Nursing | Public Health | Public Health Education & Health Promotion
Community / Public Health Nursing | Public Health | Public Health Education & Health Promotion
October 2021 | 352 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
A complete one-stop-shop for any student of health promotion.
How to improve and protect public health is one of the biggest questions facing the 21st century and this book exists to help tackle it head on. Setting out the What, Why, When, Who, Where and How of health promotion across 20 bite-sized chapters. It explores the full range of theories, context and strategies that influence contemporary health promotion.
Key features:
This is the ideal textbook for any undergraduate or pre-registration student starting their health promotion or public health journey. It provides a complete package of information that will lay the groundwork for your learning and future practice and will help you succeed with assignments, essays and exams.
How to improve and protect public health is one of the biggest questions facing the 21st century and this book exists to help tackle it head on. Setting out the What, Why, When, Who, Where and How of health promotion across 20 bite-sized chapters. It explores the full range of theories, context and strategies that influence contemporary health promotion.
Key features:
Comprehensive coverage: all facets of health promotion introduced and explained
Combines the theoretical with the practical: knowledge blended with the key skills and attributes needed for effective health promotion
Extensive range of global case studies: read about the enormous range of possibilities and creative ways health promotion can be achievedThis is the ideal textbook for any undergraduate or pre-registration student starting their health promotion or public health journey. It provides a complete package of information that will lay the groundwork for your learning and future practice and will help you succeed with assignments, essays and exams.
Chapter 1 - What is ‘health’?
Chapter 2 - Health promotion: an historical overview
Chapter 3 - Health Promotion Approaches
Chapter 4 - The role of health promotion in tackling contemporary health challenges
Chapter 5 - Inequalities in health
Chapter 6 - The importance of health promotion values
Chapter 7 - Assessing Health Needs: Principles and Practice
Chapter 8 - Valuing Lay Perspectives
Chapter 9 - Understanding epidemiology and health profiling
Chapter 10 - The role of the individual
Chapter 11 - The role of the state
Chapter 12 - Partnership working
Chapter 13 - Settings approach: overarching theory
Chapter 14 - Healthy settings in action
Chapter 15 - Virtual settings for health
Chapter 16 - Professional competencies and core skills
Chapter 17 - Searching and appraising the evidence
Chapter 18 - Planning and designing health promotion programmes
Chapter 19 - Health promotion research and evaluation
Chapter 20 - Communicating effectively
An invaluable text for pre-registration or undergraduate students. It includes key health promotion theory, roles and excellent case studies. Very accessible and easy to read. Written by international experts.
Trustee of the Institute of Health Promotion and Education
lots of competition in this area
Nursing, University of the Highlands And Islands
May 25, 2022
Good reference book for health promotion
Nursing and Applied Clinical Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University
April 27, 2022
There are many textbooks on health promotion and they all seem to take a different approach. This book is right for the approach we take in our module on health promotion and I have used it for my level 3 Health T level students also.
Health, Cardinal Newman College
December 17, 2021