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. New and forthcoming titles in the series:
The Care Process
Communication Skills
Leadership
Mental Health
Promoting Health and Wellbeing
Study 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**
About the authors; Abbreviations; Introduction
1. Theoretical perspectives: health promotion, health education and public health
Lucy Hope and Lisa Stephens
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Defining physical and psychological health and wellbeing
1.3 Lay concepts of health
1.4 Defining health promotion
1.5 Public health
1.6 The World Health Organization and health promotion
2. Behaviour change: theories, models and approaches
Stephen Scott
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Determinants of health
2.3 Processes that support behaviour change
2.4 Overcoming barriers to change
2.5 Building motivation to change
2.6 Setting a plan for change
3. Inequalities in health
Beverley Johnson
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The history of health inequalities
3.3 Statistical evidence
3.4 Explaining inequalities in health
3.5 Dis-/empowerment
3.6 Gender differences in health
3.7 Gender fluidity
3.8 Ethnicity and health
3.9 Social change
4. Global health and wellbeing
Michelle Moseley
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Definitions and rationale
4.3 Epidemiology
4.4 Genomics
4.5 Wider determinants of health
5. Enabling, mediating and advocating in health promotion
Clare Bennett, Sue Lillyman and Katharine Whittingham
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Defining enabling, mediating and advocating
5.3 A life-course approach to health promotion
5.4 Equality and diversity
5.5 Bringing the themes together: bioecological systems theory
6. Building a healthy public policy
Anneyce Knight
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Definitions and rationale
6.3 Health in all policies
6.4 Assessing health needs
6.5 Health impact assessments
6.6 Developing health literacy within populations
7. Advocating mental health promotion
Gemma Stacey-Emile
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Frameworks of perceptions of self and others
7.3 Overview of mental health and definitions
7.4 Issues and barriers which impact mental health and wellbeing
7.5 Individualised mental health promotion
7.6 Policies and strategies that support mental health and wellbeing
8. Strengthening community action
Sarah Fry
8.1 Introduction
8.2 What is a community?
8.3 Why is it important to understand community when discussing health?
8.4 Community action to improve the social environment
8.5 Barriers to community action
8.6 How to strengthen community action
9. Professional responsibilities of the nurse as a health promoter
Nita Muir
9.1 Introduction
9.2 NMC educational standards
9.3 Ethical issues in health promotion
9.4 Nurses as health promoters and role models
9.5 The political dimension of health promotion
10. Leadership for health promotion
Alison James
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Defining leadership
10.3 Self-awareness and emotional intelligence
10.4 Emotional intelligence and health promotion
10.5 Leadership skills in practice
10.6 Leadership or management?
10.7 Leading for change
10.8 Planning, implementing and evaluating
10.9 Health-promoting leadership
11. Evidence-based health promotion
Judith Carrier
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Defining evidence-based healthcare
11.3 What is evidence?
11.4 Systematic reviews/evidence synthesis
11.5 Applying evidence to practice - what works?
11.6 Evidence-based health promotion in action
Index
