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Foundations for Health Promotion,

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Editors: By Jane Wills, BA, MA, MSc, PGCE

Publication Date: 07 Apr 2022

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This hugely popular textbook provides a broad-based and user-friendly introduction to health promotion and its use in practice. Written by Professor Jane Wills, the book takes the reader through health promotion theory, strategy and methods, settings and implementation. It is clearly structured and accessibly written, with a discursive style that will appeal to readers of all levels and sufficient theoretical depth for undergraduates and postgraduates alike. Foundations for Health Promotion is suitable for students and practitioners of nursing, medicine, dentistry, allied health and social work, who will learn the essentials of health promotion as a discipline and reflect on its potential for their own work.

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Packed with interactive exercises to consolidate learning
Focus on application of knowledge to practice
Self-reflection on practice in each chapter to encourage deeper engagement
Case studies and research examples provide evidence base for health promotion in different professions and areas of practice

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By Jane Wills, BA, MA, MSc, PGCE, Professor of Health Promotion, London South Bank University, London, UK

Part 1: The theory of health promotion
1. Concepts of health
2. Influences on health
3. Measuring health
4. Defining health promotion
5. Models and approaches to health promotion
6. Ethical issues in health
7. The politics of health promotion

Part 2: Strategies and methods
8. Reorienting health services
9. Developing personal skills
10. Strengthening community action
11. Developing healthy public policy
12. Using media in health promotion
13. Health promotion and infection control

Part 3: Settings for health promotion
14. Health promotion in schools
15. Health promotion in universities
16. Health promotion in the workplace
17. Health promotion in neighbourhoods
18. Health promotion in health services
19. Health promotion in prisons

Part 4: Implementing health promotion
20. Assessing health needs
21. Planning health promotion interventions
22. Evaluation in health promotion
23. The importance of being research and evidence informed