Health Promotion
Translating Evidence to Practice
Marilyn Frenn (Author), Diane K. Whitehead (Author)
9780803660878
Paperback / softback, published 5 January 2021
480 pages, 135 illustrations
25.1 x 20.1 x 2.3 cm, 0.93 kg
Take an evidence-based approach to health promotion across the lifespan and clinical specialties. Written for NPs and advanced practitioners, this text provides coaching in how to read, evaluate, and apply the best evidence to health promotion plans for individuals and their families to help them prevent or manage chronic and acute diseases and disorders. Step-by-step, a who's who of educators, researchers, and practitioners explore the models and skills you need to help your patients, including those with multiple co-morbidities, while evaluating medical evidence that changes rapidly, or may be unclear. You'll also be prepared for the health promotion questions on certification exams.
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Environmental, global, and social determinants of health
- Chapter 3: Epidemiology
- Chapter 4: Theories guiding health promotion/risk reduction: Concepts and application:
- Chapter 5: Evidence-based health promotion:
- Chapter 6: Motivational interviewing:
- Chapter 7: Health Screening and Counseling: Birth to age 21
- Chapter 8: Health Screening and Counseling: Adult and Older Adult
- Chapter 9: Family health promotion and risk reduction
- Chapter 10: Aggregate health promotion and risk reduction
- Chapter 11: Mental health promotion
- Chapter 12: Assessing learning needs and health literacy
- Chapter 13: Planning Effective Ways to Help Clients Learn About Health
- Chapter 14: Informatics in health promotion
- Chapter 15: Cultural humility in promoting health
- Chapter 16: Ethical comportment in promoting health
- Chapter 17: Interprofessional health promotion
- Chapter 18: Resources for alternative therapies in promoting health
- Risk identification, prevention, and health promotion with special populations
- Chapter 19: People with disabilities
- Chapter 20: Veterans and service members
- Chapter 21: The Homeless
- Chapter 22: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer
- Chapter 23: Substance use
- Chapter 24: End of Life
- Chapter 25: Synthesizing the evidence and using it in health promotion practice
