Health Promotion Throughout the Lifespan is a comprehensive textbook that covers all major concepts of health promotion and disease prevention. Its currency, comprehensiveness, and readability are just a few of the strengths it is noted for. The focus on health promotion makes it useful in many courses in community health nursing, and its comprehensive coverage of growth and development makes it attractive as a primary text for separate courses in this area as well. Practicing nurses also find it valuable as a clinical ...
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Health Promotion Throughout the Lifespan is a comprehensive textbook that covers all major concepts of health promotion and disease prevention. Its currency, comprehensiveness, and readability are just a few of the strengths it is noted for. The focus on health promotion makes it useful in many courses in community health nursing, and its comprehensive coverage of growth and development makes it attractive as a primary text for separate courses in this area as well. Practicing nurses also find it valuable as a clinical resource, as noted by the award bestowed on a previous edition by a nurse practitioner organization. The lifespan approach addresses health promotion for all age groups. The assessment framework is based on Gordon's Functional Health Patterns. Health promotion is presented for all population groups: individuals, families, and communities. An attractive two-color design highlights the many special features in the book. The fifth edition includes several new features that emphasize practical clinical interventions, such as Case Studies, Care Plans that promote wellness, and Innovative Practice boxes. The word client has been replaced with person or individual to reflect the current emphasis on empowering the consumers of health care. - Presents an assessment framework based on Gordon's Functional Health Patterns to provide consistency in presentation of material and an approach that is line with the promotion of health - Provides extensive coverage of growth and development throughout the lifespan with an emphasis on normal aspects as well as the unique problems and health promotion needs of each age and stage of development - Offers separate chapters on each population group - individual, family, and community - to stress the unique issues found in providing care to each group - Presents Objectives and Key Terms at the beginning of each chapter to highlight the most important concepts and terms in the chapter - Addresses various cultural perspectives that need to be considered in planning care in Multicultural Awareness boxes - Introduces significant issues, trends, and controversies in health promotion through Hot Topics boxes to engage students in critical discussion and debate about these topics - Offers an attractive, contemporary two-colour design with special designs for the key features and many new photographs that portray diverse health care situations to create an inviting, accessible presentation - Incorporates Case Studies that depict actual clinical situations to give students a real-life perspective - Presents Care Plans that detail health promotion efforts for various populations and clinical situations - Presents Innovative Practice examples to highlight unique and creative health promotion programs and projects currently being implemented - Provides a Glossary in the back of the book that includes definitions for each Key Term to provide easy access to definitions of important terms
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1800grams, ISBN: 9780323014847.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1850grams, ISBN: 9780323014847.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1450grams, ISBN: 9780801632600.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. 5th edition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.
