Main description:

Take an evidence-based approach to health promotion across the lifespan and clinical specialties. Written for NPs and advanced practitioners, this text provides coaching in how to read, evaluate, and apply the best evidence to health promotion plans for individuals and their families to help them prevent or manage chronic and acute diseases and disorders. Step-by-step, a who's who of educators, researchers, and practitioners explore the models and skills you need to help your patients, including those with multiple co-morbidities, while evaluating medical evidence that changes rapidly, or may be unclear. You'll also be prepared for the health promotion questions on certification exams.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Environmental, global, and social determinants of health
Chapter 3: Epidemiology
Chapter 4: Theories guiding health promotion/risk reduction: Concepts and application:
Chapter 5: Evidence-based health promotion:
Chapter 6: Motivational interviewing:
Chapter 7: Health Screening and Counseling: Birth to age 21
Chapter 8: Health Screening and Counseling: Adult and Older Adult
Chapter 9: Family health promotion and risk reduction
Chapter 10: Aggregate health promotion and risk reduction
Chapter 11: Mental health promotion
Chapter 12: Assessing learning needs and health literacy
Chapter 13: Planning Effective Ways to Help Clients Learn About Health
Chapter 14: Informatics in health promotion
Chapter 15: Cultural humility in promoting health
Chapter 16: Ethical comportment in promoting health
Chapter 17: Interprofessional health promotion
Chapter 18: Resources for alternative therapies in promoting health
Risk identification, prevention, and health promotion with special populations
Chapter 19: People with disabilities
Chapter 20: Veterans and service members
Chapter 21: The Homeless
Chapter 22: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer
Chapter 23: Substance use
Chapter 24: End of Life
Chapter 25: Synthesizing the evidence and using it in health promotion practice