Promoting Health and Wellbeing: For Nursing and Healthcare Students (Essentials) - Softcover

Clare L. Bennett; Sue Lillyman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908625856 ISBN 13: 9781908625854

Publisher: Lantern Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

Promoting Health and Wellbeing is an introductory textbook for nursing and healthcare students seeking to understand how to promote health and prevent ill health.

Through clear explanations, case studies and activities, the book will help you to understand the principles of health promotion and how to apply them in your practice. You will learn:

• Theoretical perspectives of health promotion, health education and public health
• How to identify and apply models to support behaviour change and overcome barriers to change
• How health inequalities and social determinants of health affect public health practice
• How to enable, mediate and advocate in promoting physical and mental health and wellbeing
• How to understand and implement evidence-based health promotion in practice

This book will help you to develop the underpinning knowledge and skills you require to carry out your role in promoting health and wellbeing.

Contents

About the authors; Abbreviations; Introduction
1 Theoretical perspectives: health promotion, health education and public health
2 Behaviour change: theories, models and approaches
3 Inequalities in health
4 Global health and wellbeing
5 Enabling, mediating and advocating in health promotion
6 Building a healthy public policy
7 Advocating mental health promotion
8 Strengthening community action
9 Professional responsibilities of the nurse as a health promoter
10 Leadership for health promotion
11 Evidence-based health promotion
Index

About this title

About the Author

Dr Clare L. Bennett is a registered nurse with a background in immunology, HIV infectious diseases and sexual health. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University and teaches health promotion, public health, leadership and quality improvement on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for nurses and allied health professionals. Clare is also an honorary lecturer at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She is a researcher in the field of sexual health promotion, teaches research methods and supervises doctoral students. She is widely published in academic journals and has co-authored three textbooks.

Sue Lillyman is a registered nurse and midwife with a background in older people, end of life, long-term conditions and care of people with dementia and frailty. She is an associate lecturer for the University of Worcester and programme lead for Education for Health. She also teaches management and leadership in healthcare, teaching and learning for clinical practice, reflective practice and ethical issues. She is an active researcher in the fields of international students, student exchange and end of life issues. She is widely published including educational books and in academic journals.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

The concepts of health promotion, health education and public health are central to nursing practice. In this chapter we introduce these concepts and their foundations in the context of contemporary practice. Social and political drivers that influence decisions and practices surrounding health will be introduced and links to relevant national and international organisations in the field will be explored. Models of health will be presented to help you consider your views on health and wellbeing and examples will be given highlighting a holistic approach to health.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lantern Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908625856
• ISBN 13: 9781908625854
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 214