Comprehensive and easy-to-understand framework for health promotion practice
Promoting Health: The Primary Health Care Approach 8e supports a broad range of practitioners to understand the key values, principles, concepts and practices of health promotion in a primary health care context and apply these in their everyday work as health professionals.
The book comprehensively explores the role of structural and systemic determinants of health and health equity, and the social, cultural, economic, commercial, political, natural and built environments.
Fully updated throughout, the eighth edition addresses current global and local issues that impact on population health, including political and economic instability, climate change and pandemics.
- End of chapter reflective questions?that enable users to consolidate their learning through practice activities and develop their health promotion competencies.
- Covers hot topics, including climate and health, health equity, and the social, commercial and political determinants of health and wellbeing
- Each chapter aligned to core professional competencies for health promotion practice
- Aligned to the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion action areas
- Practice insights are presented throughout to demonstrate the application of concepts
New to this edition:
- Learning outcomes for each chapter
- Updated content
Student resources on Evolve:
- Chapter Insight Questions
- Student Activities with questions
- Weblinks
Instructor resources on Evolve:
- Chapter Insight Questions
- Answers to Chapter Insight Questions
- Student Activities with questions
- Model Answers to Student Activities
- Answers to End of Chapter Reflection Questions
- Image Gallery
- Weblinks
Table of Contents
PART 1 Health promotion development and concepts
CHAPTER 1 Health promotion in context
CHAPTER 2 Core concepts informing health promotion practice
CHAPTER 3 Ecological sustainability and human health and wellbeing
PART 2 Health promotion practice
CHAPTER 4 Health promotion practice
CHAPTER 5 Healthy public policy: to create environments and settings that support health and wellbeing
CHAPTER 6 Community development action for social and environmental change
CHAPTER 7 Health education and health literacy to develop knowledge and skills for health and wellbeing action
CHAPTER 8 Health information and social marketing to raise awareness about health and wellbeing priorities
CHAPTER 9 Vaccination, screening, risk assessment and surveillance
Appendix 1 Declaration of Alma-Ata
Appendix 2 The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
Appendix 3 Shanghai Declaration on Promoting Health in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Appendix 4 Declaration of Astana on Primary Health Care
Appendix 5 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Appendix 6 The Earth Charter Preamble
Appendix 7 Geneva Charter for Well-being
