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Promoting health : a practical guide / Linda Ewles, Ina Simnett.

By: Ewles, Linda.
Contributor(s): Simnett, Ina.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Edinburgh ; New York : Bailliáere Tindall, 2003 (2005 printing)Edition: 5th ed.Description: xix, 348 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0702026638; 9780702026638.Subject(s): Health promotion -- Great Britain | Health education -- Great Britain | Health and Wellbeing | Personal & public health | Health systems & servicesDDC classification: 613 | 613.07 PRO
Contents:
Part 1 Thinking about health and health promotion: What is health? -- What is health promotion? -- Aims and values in health promotion -- Who promotes health? -- Part 2 Planning and managing for effective practice: The basic planning and evaluation process -- Identifying health promotion needs and priorities -- Skills of effective planning and research -- Skills of personal effectiveness -- Working effectively with other people -- Part 3 Developing competence in health promotion: Fundamentals of communication -- Using communication tools -- Helping people to learn -- Working with groups -- Helping people towards healthier living -- Working with communities -- Changing policy and practice.
Summary: For the fifth edition, this popular text has been fully revised and updated to reflect developments in the context and practice of health promotion.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

'Promoting Health' is a seminal text that has been used in the training and education of health promoters over the last 25 years and has shaped health promotion practice in the UK. This 6th edition has undergone significant revision by a new author, Angela Scriven, a leading academic widely published in the health-promotion field, bringing it up to date with current practice.

The text provides an accessible practical guide for all those involved in health promotion. Concerned with the what, why, who and how of health promotion, it is invaluable to students of the discipline.

Fully updated to meet the needs of today's public health practitioners Case studies and exercises enable application of ideas Provides practice and guidance on report writing, running meetings and working with the media and influencing policy Discusses working with groups and networks, as well as individual clients User-friendly, interactive style New, contemporary format.

Previous ed.: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1 Thinking about health and health promotion: What is health? -- What is health promotion? -- Aims and values in health promotion -- Who promotes health? -- Part 2 Planning and managing for effective practice: The basic planning and evaluation process -- Identifying health promotion needs and priorities -- Skills of effective planning and research -- Skills of personal effectiveness -- Working effectively with other people -- Part 3 Developing competence in health promotion: Fundamentals of communication -- Using communication tools -- Helping people to learn -- Working with groups -- Helping people towards healthier living -- Working with communities -- Changing policy and practice.

For the fifth edition, this popular text has been fully revised and updated to reflect developments in the context and practice of health promotion.

CIT Module SPRT 7014 - Core reading

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on terminology
  • A reflection
  • Introduction to the fifth edition
  • Part 1 Thinking about health and health promotion
  • 1 What is health?
  • What does being healthy mean to you?
  • Lay and professional concepts of health
  • Towards a holistic concept of health
  • The holistic view
  • What affects health?
  • Improving health - historical overview
  • Practice points
  • Recommended reading
  • Notes and references
  • 2 What is health promotion?
  • Defining health promotion
  • From health education to multi-disciplinary public health
  • The scope of health promotion
  • A framework for health promotion activities
  • Developing competence in health promotion
  • National standards in health promotion and public health
  • Practice points
  • Recommended reading
  • Notes and references
  • 3 Aims and values in health promotion
  • Clarifying health promotion aims
  • Analysing your aims and values: five approaches
  • Some more ethical dilemmas
  • Making ethical decisions
  • Towards a code of practice
  • Practice points
  • Recommended reading
  • Notes and references
  • 4 Who promotes health?
  • The developing public health system in the
  • United Kingdom
  • Agents and agencies of health promotion
  • International organizations
  • The government
  • Other national and local organizations
  • The National Health Service (NHS)
  • Health services outside the NHS
  • Local authorities
  • Other local organizations and groups
  • The informal network
  • Improving your health promotion role
  • Practice points
  • Recommended reading
  • Notes and references
  • Part 2 Planning and managing for effective practice
  • 5 The basic planning and evaluation process
  • Stage 1 Identify needs and priorities
  • Stage 2 Set aims and objectives
  • Stage 3 Decide the best way of achieving the aims
  • Stage 4 Identify resources
  • Stage 5 Plan evaluation methods
  • Stage 6 Set an action plan
  • Stage 7 Action!
  • Practice points
  • Recommended reading
  • Notes and references
  • 6 Identifying health promotion needs and priorities
  • Concepts of need Need, demand and supply
  • Identifying health promotion needs
  • Finding and using information
  • Assessing health promotion needs
  • Setting health promotion priorities
  • Practice points
  • Recommended reading
  • Notes and references
  • 7 Skills of effective planning and research
  • Linking your work into broader health promotion plans and strategies
  • National public health strategies
  • Local health strategies and initiatives
  • Evidence-based health promotion
  • Using published research
  • Doing your own small scale research
  • Value for money
  • Audit Health impact assessment
  • Practice points
  • Recommended reading
  • Notes and references
  • 8 Skills in personal effectiveness
  • Management skills in health promotion
  • Managing information
  • Writing reports
  • Using time effectively
  • Managing project work
  • Managing change
  • Working for quality
  • Practice points
  • Recommended reading
  • Notes and references
  • 9 Working effectively with older people
  • Communicating with colleagues
  • Coordination and teamwork
  • Participating in meetings
  • Effective committee work
  • Working in partnership with other organisations
  • Practice points
  • Recommended reading
  • Notes and references
  • Part 3 Developing competence in health promotion
  • 10 Fundamentals of communication
  • Exploring relationships with clients
  • Self-esteem, self-confidence and communication
  • Listening Helping people to talk
  • Asking questions and getting feedback
  • Communication barriers
  • Overcoming language barriers
  • Non-verbal communication
  • Written communication
  • Practice points
  • Recommended reading
  • Notes and references
  • 11 Using communication tools
  • Health promotion resources: criteria for choice
  • The range of health education resources: uses, advantages