Promoting Health: The Primary Health Care Approach - Brossura

Taylor

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0729543536 ISBN 13: 9780729543538

Casa editrice: Elsevier, 2020

Riassunto

The seventh edition of Promoting Health is an essential book for a range of health practitioners to guide their health promotion practice within a comprehensive primary health care context.

With a new author team featuring Jane Taylor and Lily O'Hara, the book explores the socio-ecological determinants of health and wellbeing as a foundation for holistic, ecological, salutogenic health promotion practice. The health promotion practice cycle, including evidence-based community assessment, program planning, implementation and evaluation, is described in detail. The book also includes chapters on five health promotion action areas.

Promoting Health

is a comprehensive, easy-to-understand resource that students and practitioners will find themselves returning to throughout their studies and professional practice.

• Grounded in internationally recognised WHO health promotion frameworks
• including the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and subsequent charters and declarations
• The role of systemic determinants of health and wellbeing including the social, economic, cultural, political, natural and built environments for a sustainable future
• Sets of questions on putting the Ottawa Charter into practice
• Tables that map chapter content to relevant International Union for Health Promotion and Education core competencies
• More to Explore sections with additional resources
• Reflective questions that enable consolidation of learning through practice activities
• An eBook included with all print purchases

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• Updated framework for health promotion practice
• including distinction between comprehensive and selective primary health care approaches, and the addition of the health promotion practice cycle
• Introduction to the values and principles of critical health promotion and their application within a comprehensive primary health care context
• Increased focus on indigenous perspectives, with current Australian and New Zealand examples
• Quizzes to check understanding of the content of each chapter

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Informazioni sull'autore

Jane Taylor works at the School of Health, University of Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Elsevier
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0729543536
• ISBN 13: 9780729543538
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 520
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: LSWR Group; b.criscuolo@lswr.it; ; Via Spadolini, 7; Milano; Italia