Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span

by Carole Lium Edelman MSN, GCNS-BC, CMC, Elizabeth Connelly Kudzma DNSc, MPH, WHNP-BC, CNL

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:	9780323761406
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	10/01/2021
Edition description:	10th ed.
Pages:	736
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Unit 1: Foundations for Health Promotion

Chapter 1: Health Defined: Health Promotion, Protection, and Prevention

Chapter 2: Emerging Populations and Health

Chapter 3: Health Policy and the Delivery System

Chapter 4: The Therapeutic Relationship

Chapter 5: Ethical Issues Related to Health Promotion

Unit 2: Assessment for Health Promotion

Chapter 6: Health Promotion and the Individual

Chapter 7: Health Promotion and the Family

Chapter 8: Health Promotion and the Community

Unit 3: Interventions for Health Promotion

Chapter 9: Screening

Chapter 10: Health Education

Chapter 11: Nutrition Counseling for Health Promotion

Chapter 12: Exercise

Chapter 13: Stress Management

Chapter 14: Complementary and Alternative Strategies

Unit 4: Application of Health Promotion

Chapter 15: Overview of Growth and Development Framework

Chapter 16: The Childbearing Period

Chapter 17: Infant

Chapter 18: Toddler

Chapter 19: Preschool Child

Chapter 20: School-Age Child

Chapter 21: Adolescent

Chapter 22: Young Adult

Chapter 23: Middle-Age Adult

Chapter 24: Older Adult

Unit 5: Emerging Global Health Issues

Chapter 25: Health Promotion for the 21st Century: Throughout the Life Span and Throughout the World

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From the Publisher

Apply the principles of health promotion and disease prevention when caring for patients of all ages