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Features

·        New - A New Focus on Different Populations that pays special attention to diversity and vulnerability and their unique roles in both health and disease

·        New - A Fusion of Individual and Community Focuses

·        New - Essential Information for Measuring and Evaluating health promotion interventions and their outcomes

·        New - Exciting Learning Activities at the end of each chapter to help nursing students foster their understanding and awareness of that chapter’s content

• Up-to-date research findings–Regarding testing the Health Promotion Model. Provides students with an overview of recent research in behavior change.
• Discussion of measuring health promotion outcomes. Assists students in understanding the importance of evaluating outcomes.
• Strategies for evaluating individual and community interventions. Addresses a very important topic and serves students with critical analyses.
• An entire chapter devoted to health promotion in vulnerable populations. Gives students the necessary tools to provide this evidence-based health care in diverse practice settings.
• Discussion of building health promotion partnerships. Shows students with greater clarity the interrelationship of key partnership and community ideas and concepts.
• Web-based references. Provides students and instructors with helpful and dynamic sites for accessing information related to the topics of most chapters.
• An orientation to theoretical models and research. Supplies students with the latest theoretical frameworks currently used in planning health promotion services.
• Adaptable tools–Teaches health promotion skills. Enables students to assess health related lifestyles and develop nursing plans for a variety of care settings.
• Focus on diverse populations. Helps students address cultural differences in health-related beliefs and practices.
• An ecological approach to health promotion–Addresses individuals, family, and community levels. Familiarizes students with the multiple levels of intervention that are critical to informed professional functioning.
• Health knowledge checklists and goal identification forms. Allows students to organize important material for study and their own learning objectives.
• Examples of nurse-client contracts and self contracts. Provides application examples for students.
• Directions for research and innovative practice. Promotes creative thinking among students about the conduct of research in health promotion and the delivery of quality health promotion services.
• Chapter-end summaries. Encourages students to reflect on the implications of what they have read for nursing practice and research.

New To This Edition

·        New- An Evidence-Based Approach to health promotion and disease prevention unlike any other text

·        New - A New Focus on Different Populations that pays special attention to diversity and vulnerability and their unique roles in both health and disease

·        New - A Fusion of Individual and Community Focuses

·        New - Essential Information for Measuring and Evaluating health promotion interventions and their outcomes

·        New - Exciting Learning Activities at the end of each chapter to help nursing students foster their understanding and awareness of that chapter’s content

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: The Challenges of the 21st Century

PART I.  The Human Quest for Health

1.         Toward a Definition of Health                          

2.         Individual Models to Promote Health Behavior

3.         Community Models to Promote Health

PART II.  Health Promotion in Diverse Populations

4.         Assessing Health and Health Behaviors

5.         Developing a Health Promotion —Prevention Plan

PART III.  Intervention for Health Promotion and Prevention

6.         Interventions for Health Promotion and Prevention

7.         Diet, Nutrition, Prevention and Health Promotion

8.         Stress Management and Health Promotion

9.         Social Support and Health

PART IV.  Evaluating the Effectiveness of Health Promotion

10.       Measuring Outcomes of Health Promotion and Prevention Interventions

11.       Evaluating Individual and Community Interventions

PART V.  Health Promotion in Diverse Populations

12.       Self-Care for Health Promotion Across the Life Span

13.       Health Promotion in Vulnerable Populations

PART VI.  Approaches for Promoting a Healthier Society

14.       Health Promotion in Community Settings

15.       Promoting Health through Social and Environmental Change

Courses

Adult Health/Medical Surgical Nursing  (RN)
Health Promotion  (RN)

Next Edition(s)

• Health Promotion in Nursing Practice, 6/E
  Pender, Murdaugh & Parsons
  ©2011  |  Prentice Hall  |  Paper; 368 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0135097215  |  ISBN-13: 9780135097212
  Suggested retail price: $67.95  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $50.96  (What's this?)Brief Description  | 

  

  For BSN and MSN courses in health promotion, and as a supplement to community nursing courses.

   

  This book presents a strong, up-to-date foundation for understanding and building the science and practice of health promotion. It has three goals: to introduce the major individual and community models and theories that guide health promotion interventions; to offer evidence-based strategies for effective health promotion in practice settings; and to foster critical thinking about future opportunities for research and more effective interventions. This Sixth Edition is thoroughly updated to reflect the latest research and terminology. New coverage includes: the U.S. Government’s Healthy People 2020 Goals; more ecological approaches encompassing families, communities, and nations; new health promotion technologies, and more.

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