Health promotion throughout the life span / [edited by] Carole Lium Edelman, GCNS-BC, CMC, Elizabeth C. Kudzma, PhD, CNS, FNP, Carol Lynn Mandle, DNSC, MPH, RNC
1. Foundations for health promotion -- Health defined: objectives for promotion and prevention -- Emerging populations and health -- Health policy and the delivery system -- The therapeutic relationship -- Ethical issues related to health promotion -- 2. Assessment for health promotion -- Health promotion and the individual -- Health promotion and the family -- Health promotion and the community -- 3. Interventions for health promotion -- Screening -- Health education -- Nutrition counseling for health promotion -- Exercise -- Stress management -- Complementary and alternative strategies -- 4. Application of health promotion -- Overview of growth and development framework -- The prenatal period -- Infant -- Toddler -- Preschool child -- School-age child -- Adolescent -- Young adult -- Middle-age adult -- Older adult -- 5. Emerging global health issues -- Health promotion for the twenty-first century: throughout the life span and throughout the world
Summary
With the advent of health care reform and an emphasis on reducing health care costs, health promotion and disease prevention is a priority in nursing care. Be prepared with Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span, 8th Edition, your comprehensive guide to major health promotion concepts. Featuring practical guidance - including boxes on diversity awareness, evidence-based practice, innovative practice, hot topics, and quality and safety as well as case studies and care plans - our experienced authors give you all the tools you need to stay current on the latest research and trends i
