Promoting Health and Wellbeing (eBook)

For nursing and healthcare students

Clare L. Bennett, Sue Lillyman (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
214 Seiten
Scion Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-908625-86-1 (ISBN)

Infos

An introductory textbook for nursing and healthcare students seeking to understand how to promote health and prevent ill health.



Essentials books feature clear explanations, scenarios, activities and case studies to help students get to grips with the subject quickly and easily.

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Promoting Health and Wellbeing is an introductory textbook for nursing and healthcare students seeking to understand how to promote health and prevent ill health.Through clear explanations, case studies and activities, the book will help you to understand the principles of health promotion and how to apply them in your practice. You will learn:Theoretical perspectives of health promotion, health education and public healthHow to identify and apply models to support behaviour change and overcome barriers to changeHow health inequalities and social determinants of health affect public health practiceHow to enable, mediate and advocate in promoting physical and mental health and wellbeingHow to understand and implement evidence-based health promotion in practiceThis book will help you to develop the underpinning knowledge and skills you require to carry out your role in promoting health and wellbeing.Essentials is a series of accessible, introductory textbooks for students in nursing, health and social care. The books feature clear explanations, scenarios, activities and case studies to help students get to grips with the subject quickly and easily. New and forthcoming titles in the series:The Care ProcessCommunication SkillsLeadershipMental HealthPromoting Health and WellbeingStudy Skills**Please note that the pdf ebook version of this title is a print replica version and you may not be able to add notes to it**

Inhalt

About the authors

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Theoretical perspectives: health promotion, health education and public health

2. Behaviour change: theories, models and approaches

3. Inequalities in health

4. Global health and wellbeing

5. Enabling, mediating and advocating in health promotion

6. Building a healthy public policy

7. Advocating mental health promotion

8. Strengthening community action

9. Professional responsibilities of the nurse as a health promoter

10. Leadership for health promotion

11. Evidence-based health promotion

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Essentials
• Verlagsort: Banbury
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Ausbildung / Prüfung
• Schlagworte: health promotion, public health, wellbeing, health inequalities, mental health promotion, public health policy, nursing, responsibilities of the nurse as health promoter, determinants of health
• ISBN-10: 1-908625-86-4 / 1908625864
• ISBN-13: 978-1-908625-86-1 / 9781908625861