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Author : Karen Glanz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Theory at a Glance written by Karen Glanz and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE)
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470590211
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Health Promotion Programs written by Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Promotion Programs introduces the theory of health promotion and presents an overview of current best practices from a wide variety of settings that include schools, health care organizations, workplace, and community. The 43 contributors to Health Promotion Programs focus on students and professionals interested in planning, implementing, and evaluating programs that promote health equity. In addition to the focus on best practices, each chapter contains information on: Identifying health promotion programs Eliminating health disparities Defining and applying health promotion theories and models Assessing the needs of program participants Creating and supporting evidence-based programs Implementing health promotion programs: Tools, program staff, and budgets Advocacy Communicating health information effectively Developing and increasing program funding Evaluating, improving, and sustaining health promotion programs Health promotion challenges and opportunities Health promotion resources and career links "The authors have clearly connected the dots among planning, theory, evaluation, health disparity, and advocacy, and have created a user-friendly toolbox for health promotion empowerment." Ronald L. Braithwaite, PhD, professor, Morehouse School of Medicine, Departments of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Family Medicine, and Psychiatry "The most comprehensive program planning text to date, this book examines all facets of planning and implementation across four key work environments where health educators function." Mal Goldsmith, PhD, CHES, professor and coordinator of Health Education, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville "Health Promotion Programs . . . . explores the thinking of some of our field's leaders and confirms its well-deserved place in the field and in our personal collections." Susan M. Radius, PhD, CHES, professor and program director, Health Science Department, Towson University
Author : Glenn Laverack
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761941804
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (418 download)
Download or read book Health Promotion Practice written by Glenn Laverack and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004-03-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Promotion Practice explores the issue of how such an approach to health promotion practice can improve a community's success towards achieving healthier conditions through its own actions. Placing empowerment at the heart of health promotion practice, and offering advice for health promoters who accept the challenge to work in such a way, Health Promotion Practice defines key concepts of health, health promotion and community empowerment.
Author : Ralph J. DiClemente
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470522887
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Emerging Theories in Health Promotion Practice and Research written by Ralph J. DiClemente and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is a 'must-read' for all health promotion researchers and practitioners eager to stay one step ahead of the pack. A panoply of insightful and promising new approaches is presented for consideration and exploration in our contemporary behavioral science arsenal." — M. Elaine Auld, MPH, CHES, Chief Executive Officer, Society for Public Health Education "This book is an essential addition to the health practice and research literature, concentrating on theories that have not been extensively covered elsewhere and that have great currency. It provides an up-to-date rendition on the interplay among contemporary public health concerns, sound public health practice, and the theoretical bases for practice."— Robert M. Goodman, PhD, MPH, Dean and Professor, School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, Indiana University "The authors of Emerging Theories provide vivid descriptions of the state of the science in health promotion and presents an exciting map for future research. Understanding and using theories is the hallmark of an excellent practitioner. Creating and elaborating theories is the mark of an excellent researcher. This text will be very valuable for both." — Noreen M. Clark, PhD, Myron E. Wegman Distinguished University Professor; Director, Center for Managing Chronic Disease, University of Michigan "Emerging Theories captures the dynamic growth in theories of health promotion and illustrates how divergent theoretical perspectives are being integrated into richer explanatory and practice models." — Matthew W. Kreuter, PhD, MPH, Professor of Social Work and Medicine; Director, Health Communication Research Laboratory, Washington University in St. Louis
Author : Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470368926
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Health Promotion in Practice written by Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Promotion in Practice is a practice-driven text that translates theories of health promotion into a step-by-step clinical approach for engaging with clients. The book covers the theoretical frameworks of health promotion, clinical approaches to the eleven healthy behaviors—eating well, physical activity, sexual health, oral health, smoking cessation, substance safety, injury prevention, violence prevention, disaster preparedness, organizational wellness, and enhancing development—as well as critical factors shaping the present and the future of the field. Written by the leading practitioners and researchers in the field of health promotion, Health Promotion in Practice is a key text and reference for students, faculty, researchers, and practitioners. "Finally, a signature book in which practitioners of health promotion will find relevant guidance for their work. Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin and Joan Arnold have compiled an outstanding cast of savvy experts whose collective effort has resulted in a stunning breadth of coverage. Whether you are a practitioner or a student preparing for practice, this book will help you to bridge the gap between theory and practice-driven empiricism." —John P. Allegrante, professor of health education, Teachers College, and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University "The models of health promotion around which Health Promotion in Practice is built have a sound basis in current understanding of human development, the impact of community and social systems, and stages of growth, development, and aging. This handbook can provide both experienced health professionals and students beginning to develop practice patterns the content and structure to interactions that are truly promoting of health." —Kristine M. Gebbie, Dr.P.H., R.N., Columbia University School of Nursing
Author : Bruce Simons-Morton
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0763786799
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (637 download)
Download or read book Behavior Theory in Health Promotion Practice and Research written by Bruce Simons-Morton and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in public health practice, this text offers a comprehensive study of the health behavior theories that are the foundation of all health education and promotion programs. Your students will come away with a clear understanding of essential relationships between human behavior and health, as well as the practical application of theory and approaches to health promotion research and practice. Designed for graduates or upper level undergraduates, the book maintains a consistent, single voice and offers many examples throughout. Contents: Section I. Theory in Context: 1. Health Behavior in the Context of Public Health 2. A Social Ecological Perspective 3. Theories of Motivation and Behavior: A Brief History and Contemporary Perspectives Section II. Cognitive and Social Theories of Motivation and Behavior 4. Expectancy Value Models 5. Operant Conditioning, Self-Regulation, and Social Cognitive Theory 6. Social Influence Theory: The Effects of Social Factors on Health Behavior 7. Diffusion of Innovations Theory Section III. Behavior Change Theories 8. Learning, Teaching, and Counseling 9. Self-Determination Theory and Motivational Interviewing 10. Stage Models 11. Health Communication and Social Marketing 12. Communities and Health Promotion
Author : Steven H. Woolf
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN 13 : 9780781775991
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (759 download)
Download or read book Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice written by Steven H. Woolf and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2008 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating the latest guidelines from major organizations, including the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, this book offers clinicians a complete overview of how to help patients adopt healthy behaviors and to deliver recommended screening tests and immunizations. Chapters provide practical guidance on counseling patients about exercise, nutrition, tobacco use, substance use, sexually transmitted infections, and depression and on gathering information from the patient, ordering evidence-based screening tests, designing a personalized health maintenance plan, facilitating behavior change, and the work-up of abnormal results from screening tests. This new edition includes updated chapters on practice redesign, the use of electronic medical records, and reimbursement; updated patient resource materials and instructions; and new authors with deep expertise on the topics. A companion Website (www.healthpromodisprev.com) features fully searchable text online.
Author : Laverack, Glenn
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335220576
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Health Promotion Practice: Building Empowered Communities written by Laverack, Glenn and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book provides an excellent combination of broad theoretical background with a generous helping of vocational guidance on the practice of health promotion." scotregen "A very welcome addition to the practical side of health promotion! Laverack’s brief and simply-worded text weaves together just the right balance of theory, evidence, tips and case studies to satisfy the new learner looking to gain a grasp of health promotion’s empowering whole, while still offering new insights to the more seasoned practitioner." Ronald Labonté, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa How can health promotion practitioners help communities to become more empowered? How do you encourage different communities to work together towards a shared goal? How can you focus your resources to be most effective in building empowered communities? How do you evaluate your success (and failures) in building empowered communities? Power and empowerment are two complex concepts that are central to health promotion practice. People experience empowerment in many different ways and this book explains an approach that has been used by health promoters to intentionally build and evaluate empowerment. The book provides a special focus on communities and is illustrated throughout with useful field experiences in the United Kingdom, Asia, North America, the Pacific region and Africa. The book aims to provide the reader with: An understanding of the key concepts of power and empowerment and the link to improved health outcomes in the context of health promotion programmes An understanding of practical approaches that can be used in health promotion programming to build and evaluate empowered communities Case study examples of how communities can be empowered in practice This unique book offers sound theoretical principles to underpin the practical approaches used to build empowered communities and brings together new and innovative approaches in health promotion practice. Health Promotion Practiceis essential reading for health promotion students and practitioners who want to learn more about innovative approaches to build empowered communities in their everyday work. It will inspire them to work in more empowering ways in health promotion practice and to carefully contemplate how they can influence the way others gain power.
Author : Lindsey Dugdill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405169257
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Physical Activity and Health Promotion written by Lindsey Dugdill and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical Activity and Health Promotion: Evidence-based Approaches to Practice evaluates the realities and complexities of working to reverse the adverse trend toward physical inactivity. It is a well-rounded, evidence-based study of interventions for physical activity practice, covering a range of settings and target groups. Expert contributors present case studies which help to translate the theory into practice, from individual to societal levels, enriched by explanations of the socio-political context.
Author : Raingruber
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 128409474X
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Health Promotion In Nursing Practice written by Raingruber and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Health Promotion in Nursing Practice, Second Edition describes why nurses are positioned to model and promote healthy behaviors to the public, and how they can promote health to the community. The Second Edition emphasizes the nurse’s role in health promotion and illustrates how healthy behaviors like weight management, positive dietary changes, smoking cessation, and exercise are more likely to be adopted by clients if nurses model these behaviors. Contemporary Health Promotion in Nursing Practice, Second Edition features updated content around the topics of health promotion theories; health disparities and health promotion policy to reflect changes in the healthcare landscape. Key Features: Revised content around epigenetics and nursing informatics Healthy People 2020 guidelines referenced throughout the text Navigate 2 Advantage Access
Author : Jessica S. Coviello
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN 13 : 1975142233
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice written by Jessica S. Coviello and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third Edition of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice reflects a clinically-focused, team-based approach to health promotion conversations. This practical reference incorporates the latest guidelines from major organizations, including the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, and offers a complete overview of how to help patients adopt healthy behaviors and deliver recommended screening tests and immunizations. Packed with realistic strategies throughout, it offers expert guidance on counseling patients about exercise, nutrition, tobacco use, substance use, sexually transmitted infections, depression, and more.
Author : Marilyn Frenn
Publisher : F.A. Davis
ISBN 13 : 1719645108
Total Pages : 803 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Health Promotion written by Marilyn Frenn and published by F.A. Davis. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Lyn Talbot
Publisher : Elsevier Australia
ISBN 13 : 0729539245
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Promoting Health written by Lyn Talbot and published by Elsevier Australia. This book was released on 2009 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition continues to build on the sound philosophical approach of the previous editions. Provides an even stronger global perspective whilst highlighting the inextricable ties between the health of populations with the social, environmental and political context of people's lives. Authors from La Trobe Uni, Australia.
Author : Carolyn L. Murdaugh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780134754086
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Health Promotion in Nursing Practice written by Carolyn L. Murdaugh and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Health Promotion in Nursing Practice gives nurses and other health care professionals a practical, evidence-based guide to promoting health within diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, and economic populations, across the lifespan. A complete guide to health promotion across diverse populations, at all stages of life, written for undergraduate and graduate courses in health promotion and disease prevention, as well as for practicing health professionals. The text covers individual and community models guiding health promotion interventions, strategies to implement and evaluate programs, and the evolving role of digital technology in improving efficacy. The eight edition focuses on increasing access to innovative health programs for all populations, especially those most vulnerable, and on promoting self-care for individuals and communities. Learning activities and resources challenge students to think critically to advance in the field of health promotion." -- Back cover.
Author : Ruth Cross
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1789245338
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Health Promotion written by Ruth Cross and published by CABI. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health promotion is a key mechanism in tackling the foremost health challenges faced by developing and developed nations. Covering key concepts, theory and practical aspects, this new edition continues to focus on the themes central to health promotion practice worldwide. Social determinants, equality and equity, policy and health, working in partnerships, sustainability, evaluation and evidence-based practice are detailed, and the critical application of health promotion to practice is outlined throughout the book. Beginning with the foundations of this important area, in this new edition the authors then place greater emphasis on the role of power within health and communities. Drawing upon international settings and teaching experience in the global North and South, it finishes with a summary of the future directions of professional health promotion practice. Placing a strong emphasis on a global context, this book provides an accessible and engaging resource for postgraduate students of health promotion, public health nursing and related subjects, health practitioners and NGOs.
Author : Angela Scriven
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446291472
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Health Promotion Settings written by Angela Scriven and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Promotion Settings combines the theoretical discourse of the settings approach, covering a wide range of fundamental principles, concepts and policy issues, with real life examples of settings, including workplaces, schools, neighbourhood, cities and prisons. Frameworks and processes that are actively shaping health promotion in settings in the 21st Century are documented and the ideas and research covered will provide a vital set of indicators for those who promote health in settings. Combining theory with practical examples and case studies, the authors show how a settings approach can work in practice, drawing on a range of local, national and international initiatives and coordinated projects. Health Promotion Settings provides a rich source of ideas and case examples which highlight the challenges for promoting health in a range of contexts. Special attention is given to the workplace as both a priority area for health promotion and a key determinant of health. Written by a highly experienced team of health promotion and public health professionals, academics and researchers, this book is essential reading for both students and practitioners working towards the improvement of health using a settings approach. Online Resources are provided.
Author : Karen Glanz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470432489
Total Pages : 894 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Health Behavior and Health Education written by Karen Glanz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-08-28 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resources for teaching and learning are posted at tinyurl.com/Glanz4e and www.med.upenn.edu/hbhe4. This fourth edition of the classic book, Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and Practice provides a comprehensive, highly accessible, and in-depth analysis of health behavior theories that are most relevant to health education. This essential resource includes the most current information on theory, research, and practice at individual, interpersonal, and community and group levels. This edition includes substantial new content on current and emerging theories of health communication, e-health, culturally diverse communities, health promotion, the impact of stress, the importance of networks and community, social marketing, and evaluation.
