WHP 101 - Introduction to Wellness and Health Promotion - 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.

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.

Examines the quest to promote the health and vigour of individuals and populations of liberal democracies. It provides a detailed account of the emergence and working of Danish and English health promotion policies and programs in the areas of obesity control and mental recovery.

Incorporates the latest guidelines from major organizations and offers a complete overview of how to help patients adopt healthy behaviors and deliver recommended screening tests and immunizations.

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.

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

Provides readers with the principal understanding of how improving access to healthy foods at individual, local, regional and global levels as well as improving food security and sustainability can improve community health and combat non-communicable diseases, infectious diseases, hunger and malnutrition, obesity, social injustice, and debilitating food environments.

Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3) supplements the 2030 UN Agenda by inspiring ideologies and implementation concerning global health and wellbeing.

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.

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.

An adjunct approach to health practice that seeks to deal with the more complex modern determinants of chronic diseases--primarily lifestyle and the environments driving such lifestyles--in contrast to the microbial 'causes' of infectious disease.