Promoting Health Practical Guide to Health Education - Softcover

Ewles, Linda; Simnett, Ina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471905143 ISBN 13: 9780471905141

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1987

Synopsis

"Promoting Health" is an easy-to-read guide to health education. It covers the concepts of health and health education from a practical viewpoint, using a client-centred approach, and deals with assessing health education needs, setting priorities and planning programmes. It provides a practical source of basic information on the methods and skills of health education, It will help all health educators, whether they work on a one-to-one basis or with families, groups or whole communities, and it will meet the needs of students taking basic or post-basic courses in any of the caring professions and or qualified professionals who wish to take another look at the health education aspects of their work. The book is designed to be used as a basic, comprehensive text, as a self-teaching aid, and as a source of materials and ideas for group teaching by course tutors. It includes 38 exercises, quizzes and study questions, and numerous case-studies and cartoons which make learning stimulating, relevant and enjoyable. The authors present their material in a lively and energetic way, avoiding the dullness of the traditional textbook approach.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471905143
• ISBN 13: 9780471905141
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 214