Main description:

Up to date and easy to read, this textbook provides comprehensive coverage of all major concepts of health promotion and disease prevention. It highlights growth and development throughout the life span, emphasizing normal development as well as the specific problems and health promotion issues common to each stage. All population groups are addressed with separate chapters for individuals, families, and communities.

Contents:

Module 1: Foundations for Health Promotion

1. Health Defined: Objectives for Promotion and Prevention
2. Emerging Populations and Health
3. Health Policy and the Delivery System
4. The Therapeutic Relationship
5. Ethical Issues Relevant to Health Promotion

Module 2: Assessment for Health Promotion

6. Health Promotion and the Individual
7. Health Promotion and the Family
8. Health Promotion and the Community

Module 3: Interventions for Health Promotion

9. Screening
10. Health Education
11. Nutrition Counseling for Health Promotion
12. Exercise
13. Stress Management
14. Holistic Health Strategies

Module 4: Application of Health Promotion

15. Overview of Growth and Development Framework
16. The Prenatal Period
17. Infant
18. Toddler
19. Preschool Child
20. School-Age Child
21. Adolescent
22. Young Adult
23. Middle-Age Adult
24. Older Adult

Module 5: Challenges in the Twenty-First Century

25. Health Promotion for the Twenty-First Century: Throughout the Life Span and Throughout the World