Promoting Health and Wellbeing: For nursing and healthcare students

Length: 214 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Lantern Publishing Ltd
Publication Date: 2020-12-15
ISBN-10: 1908625856
ISBN-13: 9781908625854
Sales Rank: #9331176 (See Top 100 Books)

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 health
How to identify and apply models to support behaviour change and overcome barriers to change
How health inequalities and social determinants of health affect public health practice
How to enable, mediate and advocate in promoting physical and mental health and wellbeing
How to understand and implement evidence-based health promotion in practice

This 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.

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