Mary Gottwald, Jane Goodman-Brown

A Guide to Practical Health Promotion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Suitable for allied health professionals, nurses and students involved in health promotion practice and will help you to build confidence in your health promotion skills. This book uses case scenarios to explore how health promotion activities can empower individuals to make decisions that change their health related behaviour.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open University Press
• Seitenzahl: 203
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 168mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780335244591
• ISBN-10: 0335244599
• Artikelnr.: 35469284

Autorenporträt

Mary Gottwald is Principal Lecturer for Student Experience at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is also an occupational therapist and has worked in South Africa and the UK and teaches in the UK and Hong Kong. Jane Goodman-Brown is Programme Lead for Public Health at Oxford Brookes University, UK and teaches in the UK and Hong Kong. She is also a health visitor and has experience of running health promotion interventions in the community.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One - Context Setting
Chapter 1: An Introduction to why Health Promotion is Important
Chapter 2: An Overview of Health Promotion Theory
Part Two - Empowering Individuals and Communities
Chapter 3: Health Promotion Models and Application to Practice
Chapter 4: Developing Self-awareness
Chapter 5: Developing Skills
Chapter 6: Working with Groups and Communities
Chapter 7: The Mass Media and Social Marketing
Conclusion
End of Chapter Questions and Suggested Answers