Promoting Health and Wellbeing

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:

About the authors; Abbreviations; Introduction

1. Theoretical perspectives: health promotion, health education and public health
Lucy Hope and Lisa Stephens
     1.1 Introduction
     1.2 Defining physical and psychological health and wellbeing
     1.3 Lay concepts of health
     1.4 Defining health promotion
     1.5 Public health
     1.6 The World Health Organization and health promotion

2. Behaviour change: theories, models and approaches
Stephen Scott
     2.1 Introduction
     2.2 Determinants of health
     2.3 Processes that support behaviour change
     2.4 Overcoming barriers to change
     2.5 Building motivation to change
     2.6 Setting a plan for change
  
3. Inequalities in health
Beverley Johnson
     3.1 Introduction
     3.2 The history of health inequalities
     3.3 Statistical evidence
     3.4 Explaining inequalities in health
     3.5 Dis-/empowerment
     3.6 Gender differences in health
     3.7 Gender fluidity
     3.8 Ethnicity and health
     3.9 Social change

4. Global health and wellbeing
Michelle Moseley
     4.1 Introduction
     4.2 Definitions and rationale
     4.3 Epidemiology
     4.4 Genomics
     4.5 Wider determinants of health

5. Enabling, mediating and advocating in health promotion
Clare Bennett, Sue Lillyman and Katharine Whittingham
     5.1 Introduction
     5.2 Defining enabling, mediating and advocating
     5.3 A life-course approach to health promotion
     5.4 Equality and diversity
     5.5 Bringing the themes together: bioecological systems theory

6. Building a healthy public policy
Anneyce Knight
     6.1 Introduction
     6.2 Definitions and rationale
     6.3 Health in all policies
     6.4 Assessing health needs
     6.5 Health impact assessments
     6.6 Developing health literacy within populations

7. Advocating mental health promotion
Gemma Stacey-Emile
     7.1 Introduction
     7.2 Frameworks of perceptions of self and others
     7.3 Overview of mental health and definitions
     7.4 Issues and barriers which impact mental health and wellbeing
     7.5 Individualised mental health promotion
     7.6 Policies and strategies that support mental health and wellbeing

8. Strengthening community action
Sarah Fry
     8.1 Introduction
     8.2 What is a community?
     8.3 Why is it important to understand community when discussing health?
     8.4 Community action to improve the social environment
     8.5 Barriers to community action
     8.6 How to strengthen community action

9. Professional responsibilities of the nurse as a health promoter
Nita Muir
     9.1 Introduction
     9.2 NMC educational standards
     9.3 Ethical issues in health promotion
     9.4 Nurses as health promoters and role models
     9.5 The political dimension of health promotion

10. Leadership for health promotion
Alison James
     10.1 Introduction
     10.2 Defining leadership
     10.3 Self-awareness and emotional intelligence
     10.4 Emotional intelligence and health promotion
     10.5 Leadership skills in practice
     10.6 Leadership or management?
     10.7 Leading for change
     10.8 Planning, implementing and evaluating
     10.9 Health-promoting leadership

11. Evidence-based health promotion
Judith Carrier
     11.1 Introduction
     11.2 Defining evidence-based healthcare
     11.3 What is evidence?
     11.4 Systematic reviews/evidence synthesis
     11.5 Applying evidence to practice - what works?
     11.6 Evidence-based health promotion in action

Index