WHP 206 - Wellness and Health Promotion Capstone - Kroft

The book is a vital resource for strategic planners working to promote mental health and wellbeing at a population level, as well as operational services delivering to specific individuals and groups. It addresses the role of generic service providers as well as being essential reading for mental health and public health students.

A short, punchy and practical guide to health promotion aimed at students and practitioners.

Aimed at allied health professionals helping them to make the links between health promotion theory and practice.

This book presents selected full papers from Global Telehealth 2014, emphasizing the importance of these aspects in achieving wider acceptance and adoption of ehealth and telehealth.

The seventh edition of this classic text champions healthy aging by demonstrating how to prevent or manage disease and make large-scale improvements toward health and wellness in the older adult population.

This fully revised public health text offers students and practitioners a grounding in the practice of health promotion and introduces a range of methods that are used in health promotion practice. It also helps to develop skills needed to do health promotion in a range of settings, including project management, partnership working, needs assessment and evaluation.

This book offers students and practitioners an accessible exploration of the origins and development of health promotion.

Examines the role technology can play in the promotion of health and the prevention of disease.

Written specifically for professionals new to health behavior theory and challenged to shape the health behaviors of others. With its unique applied approach, it changes the way you think and behave in relationship to planning health promotion programs.

Chapters on lifestyle change and prevention and chronic disease management, with an intensive focus on specific behaviors and chronic illness. Section on Community, System, and Provider Interventions to Support Health Behavior Change focuses on the efficacy of interventions implemented within various systems.

Strategies to address enabling and issues empowering individuals with intellectual disabilities.

The report describes the inclusion of health literacy into public health prevention programs at the national, state, and local levels; reviews how insurance companies factor health literacy into their prevention programs; and discusses industry contributions to providing health literate primary and secondary prevention.