Health Promotion in Communities
Holistic and Wellness Approaches
Published on 27. December 2001
Book
Hardback
500 pages
978-0-8261-1407-5 (ISBN)
Description
Carolyn Chambers Clark, EdD, RN, ARNP, FAAN, HNC, DABFN, is an editor. In her latest book, Dr. Clark applies a holistic, wellness perspective to community health, focusing on community strengths and resilience - such as positive nutrition, healthy environment, fitness, and self care skills - rather than risks and disease. Practitioners and students will find this book a practical and comprehensive resource for creating community health programs and promoting wellness among individuals and groups. Special features include: a step-by-step guide to planning, implementing, and marketing community health programs; strategies for wellness nutrition, fitness, stress management, and smoking cessation; strategies for preventing violence in the schools and larger community; tips on sharpening communication skills with individuals and groups; and models of culturally sensitive health promotion programs.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1, black & white illustrations
Weight
1022 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8261-1407-5 (9780826114075)
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Content
Part 1 Theory and concepts: a model for health and wellness promotion in the communities; health promotion with changing and vulnerable populations. Part 2 Developing programmes in the community: community self-assessment; principles of planning effective community health programmes; community mobilization; marketing community health promotion programmes; evaluating community health programmes; health promotion in rural settings; health promotion on the Internet. Part 3 Strategies for wellness: wellness nutrition; fitness and flexible movement; communicable disease - promoting community resiliency; stress management; smoking cessation; violence prevention skills; environmental wellness; complementary health care practices. Part 4 Interaction skills: advanced communication skills with individuals and groups; working with groups; working with families. Part 5 Health promotion in cultural context: health promotion with African American women; establishing a lay health promotion programme in a Hispanic community; working with elderly diabetics in a Hawaiian community; parish nursing. Part 6 Lessons from sample health promotion programmes: conducting a survey - the example of a youth service organization; violence prevention in schools - a model violence prevention centre; evaluating small community-based health promotion programmes - lessons learned from Colorado health promotion initiatives; health promotion in a homeless centre.