Jane Wills: Foundations for Health Promotion

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Cover: 9780702085062 | Foundations for Health Promotion | Jane Wills | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Beschreibung

This hugely popular textbook provides a broad-based and user-friendly introduction to health promotion and its use in practice. Written by Professor Jane Wills, the book takes the reader through health promotion theory, strategy and methods, settings and implementation. It is clearly structured and accessibly written, with a discursive style that will appeal to readers of all levels and sufficient theoretical depth for undergraduates and postgraduates alike. Foundations for Health Promotion is suitable for students and practitioners of nursing, medicine, dentistry, allied health and social work, who will learn the essentials of health promotion as a discipline and reflect on its potential for their own work. Packed with interactive exercises to consolidate learning Focus on application of knowledge to practice Self-reflection on practice in each chapter to encourage deeper engagement Case studies and research examples provide evidence base for health promotion in different professions and areas of practice New chapters on health protection, communicating health and healthy universities New chapter on evaluating research and evidence - key components of workforce competencies Thoroughly revised and updated throughout to reflect recent changes in health promotion theories, practice and policy Accompanying videos narrated by Professor Wills give an overview of key topics

Über den Autor

Jane Wills is Professor of Health Promotion in the School of Health and Social Care at South Bank University and is also Director of the Centre for Applied Research in Improvement and Innovation (CApRII).
She has over 25 years of experience of teaching public health and health promotion. Her research focuses on health education and health literacy and behavioural interventions particularly in relation to obesity. She is a trained counsellor and also teaches motivational interviewing and counselling skills to health care professionals. She has also held numerous external examiner and independent assessor posts, maintaining the discipline of health promotion.
Initially qualifying as a teacher, she has a strong interest in pedagogy and student development, regularly publishing with students.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: The theory of health promotion

Concepts of health
Influences on health
Measuring health
Defining health promotion
Models and approaches to health promotion
Ethical issues in health
The politics of health promotion

Part 2: Strategies and methods

Reorienting health services
Developing personal skills
Strengthening community action
Developing healthy public policy
Using media in health promotion
Health promotion and infection control

Part 3: Settings for health promotion

Health promotion in schools
Health promotion in universities
Health promotion in the workplace
Health promotion in neighbourhoods
Health promotion in health services
Health promotion in prisons

Part 4: Implementing health promotion

Assessing health needs
Planning health promotion interventions
Evaluation in health promotion
The importance of being research and evidence informed

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Fachbereich:	Allgemeine Lexika
Genre:	Medizin
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	368
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780702085062
ISBN-10:	0702085065
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Wills, Jane
Hersteller:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Maße:	194 x 235 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Jane Wills
Erscheinungsdatum:	07.04.2022
Gewicht:	0,778 kg

preigu-id: 120844018