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Community Health Promotion
Challenges for Practice

Joanne Kerr (Author)

9780702022845, Elsevier Health Sciences

Paperback, published 2 June 2000

328 pages, 8 ills.
18.9 x 24.6 x 2.1 cm, 0.68 kg

The book is a core textbook for branch students and qualified staff on the practical issues of health promotion for a range of clients. It explores the central challenge of community health promotion, empowermentand, through examples from practice, addresses how professionals can be more responsive to patients needs. Extensive cases studies and practice-related questions are used throughout the text.

  • The first text to address such a comprehensive range of community health promotion activities
    • Extensive reference to practice and examples of services
  • Contains exercises and activities throughout the book which will enable readers to identify and develop their own knowledge and skills
    • Each chapter starts with an overview outlining its contents

    BACKGROUND TO COMMUNITY HEALTH PROMOTION &middot
    Promoting the Health of Communities &middot
    Community, Health Promotion and Empowerment &middot
    CHALLENGES IN PRACTICE &middot
    Pre-conceptual Care &middot
    Empowerment and Childbirth &middot
    Teenage Pregnancy &middot
    Promoting Child and Family Health through Empowerment &middot
    Youth Health Promotion in the Community &middot
    Homeless Women and Primary Health Care &middot
    Mental Health Promotion &middot
    Men's Health: Concepts, Criticisms and Challenges &middot
    Health Promotion and Ethnic Minority Groups &middot
    Queer Health: Health Promotion the Hard Way &middot
    Health Promotion for Older People &middot
    Health Promotion and Community Care: The Neighbourhood Health Strategy

    Subject Areas: Public health & preventive medicine [MBN]
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