Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span, 7th Edition

Key Features

• UNIQUE! The assessment framework for this textbook is based on Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns and offers a consistent presentation of content and a health promotion approach.
• Extensive coverage of growth and development throughout the life span emphasizes the unique problems and health promotion needs of each stage of development.
• UNIQUE! Think About It boxes present a realistic clinical scenario and critical thinking questions.
• UNIQUE! Multicultural Awareness boxes present cultural perspectives important to care planning.
• Research Highlights boxes discuss current research efforts and research opportunities in health promotion.
• UNIQUE! Hot Topics boxes explore significant issues, trends, and controversies in health promotion to spark critical discussion and debate.
• UNIQUE! Innovative Practice boxes offer examples of unique and creative health promotion programs and projects.

Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span, 7th Edition

UNIT 1: FOUNDATIONS FOR HEALTH PROMOTION

1. Health Defined: Objectives for Promotion and Prevention
2. Emerging Populations and Health
3. Health Policy and the Delivery System
4. The Therapeutic Relationship
5. Ethical Issues Relevant to Health Promotion

UNIT 2: ASSESSMENT FOR HEALTH PROMOTION

6. Health Promotion and the Individual
7. Health Promotion and the Family
8. Health Promotion and the Community

UNIT 3: INTERVENTIONS FOR HEALTH PROMOTION

9. Screening
10. Health Education
11. Nutrition Counseling for Health Promotion
12. Exercise
13. Stress Management
14. Holistic Health Strategies

UNIT 4: APPLICATION OF HEALTH PROMOTION

15. Overview of Growth and Development Framework
16. The Prenatal Period
17. Infant
18. Toddler
19. Preschool Child
20. School-Age Child
21. Adolescent
22. Young Adult
23. Middle-Age Adult
24. Older Adult

UNIT 5: CHALLENGES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

25. Health Promotion for the Twenty-First Century