Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0323091415 ISBN 13: 9780323091411

Casa editrice: Mosby Inc, 2013

Riassunto

With the advent of health care reform and an emphasis on reducing health care costs, health promotion and disease prevention is a priority in nursing care. Be prepared with Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span, 8th Edition, your comprehensive guide to major health promotion concepts. Featuring practical guidance - including boxes on diversity awareness, evidence-based practice, innovative practice, hot topics, and quality and safety as well as case studies and care plans - our experienced authors give you all the tools you need to stay current on the latest research and trends in health promotion.

• Extensive coverage of growth and development throughout the lifespan emphasizes the unique problems and health promotion needs of each age and stage of development.
• Separate chapters on each population - group, individual, family, and community - stress the unique issues faced when providing care to each group.
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes emphasize current research efforts and opportunities in health promotion.
• Hot Topics and Innovative Practice boxes engage students' interest by introducing significant issues, trends, and creative programs and projects in health promotion practice.
• Diversity Awareness boxes address various cultural perspectives and provide important information that needs to be considered in planning care.
• Case studies and care plans present realistic situations that challenge students to reflect upon important health promotion concepts.
• Think About It boxes dig deeper into the chapter topic and encourage critical thinking.
• Numerous pedagogical features such as objectives, key terms, and textual summaries highlight the most important concepts and terms in each chapter.

• NEW! Healthy People 2020 boxes include related goals and objectives for each chapter to address emerging health issues and health priorities over the next decade.
• NEW! Quality and Safety scenarios include examples and suggestions to encourage quality and safety in nursing.
• NEW! Redesigned Nutrition chapter highlights the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the MyPlate food guide.
• NEW! Standard headings in the growth and development chapters reinforce the concepts of Gordon's Functional Health Patterns.

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Contenuti

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

Product Description

Book by Edelman APRN MS CS BC CMC Carole Lium Mandle P

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Mosby Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0323091415
• ISBN 13: 9780323091411
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 670
• Redattore: Edelman Carole Lium, Kudzma Elizabeth Connelly, Mandle Carol Lynn Ph.D.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: LSWR Group; b.criscuolo@lswr.it; ; Via Spadolini, 7; Milano; Italia