Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span / Edition 9

by Carole Lium Edelman

Overview

Up to date and easy to read, this textbook provides comprehensive coverage of all major concepts of health promotion and disease prevention. It highlights growth and development throughout the life span, emphasizing normal development as well as the specific problems and health promotion issues common to each stage. All population groups are addressed with separate chapters for individuals, families, and communities.

• 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.

• Updated nutrition coverage includes MyPyramid from the FDA, as well as the latest information on food safety and fad diets.
• Expanded health policy coverage focuses on global health, historical perspectives, financing healthcare, concierge medical practices, and the hospitalist movement.
• Health Promotion for the Twenty-First Century explores current and future health promotion challenges and research initiatives.
• Updated Healthy People 2010 data includes midcourse review objectives and an introduction to Healthy People 2020.
• Case Studies and Care Plans summarize key concepts and show how they apply to real-life practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900323416732
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	10/02/2017
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	720
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

Table of Contents

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