- Separate chapters on population groups - the individual, family, and community - highlight the unique aspects of assessment and health promotion for each group
- Coverage of growth and development helps apply health promotion concepts to each age and each stage of development through the lifespan
- Case studies present realistic situations with questions asking students to apply key concepts to further develop clinical judgment
- Care plans include patient problems, defining characteristics, related factors, expected outcomes, and interventions
- Quality and Safety Scenario boxes focus on QSEN-related competencies with examples of health promotion
- Innovative Practice boxes outline unique and creative health promotion programs and projects currently being implemented
- Healthy People boxes present goals and objectives relating to national health issues and priorities
- Research for Evidence-Based Practice boxes summarize current health-promotion studies showing the links between research, theory, and practice
- Diversity Awareness boxes address cultural perspectives relating to planning care
- Hot Topics boxes introduce significant issues, trends, and controversies in health promotion
- Think About It clinical scenarios open each chapter, and include questions to encourage clinical judgment
Table of Contents
Unit 1: Foundations for Health Promotion
1. Health Defined: Health Promotion, Protection, and Prevention
2. Vulnerable Populations and Health
3. Health Policy and the Delivery System
4. The Therapeutic Relationship
5. Ethical Issues Related 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 and Health Promotion
10. Health Education
11. Nutrition Counseling for Health Promotion
12. Physical Activity
13. Stress Management
14. Complementary, Integrative, and Alternative Strategies
Unit 4: Application of Health Promotion
15. Overview of Growth and Development Framework
16. The Childbearing 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: Emerging Global Health Issues
25. Health Promotion for the 21st Century: Throughout the Life Span and Throughout the World
