Publisher's Synopsis
All healthcare practitioners have a professional responsibility to promote good health and well-being - making health promotion and health education a fundamental part of their daily work.
Using a multi-professional approach, this book provides a fascinating guide to health promotion, health education and public health issues. It supplies the knowledge and means to understand and implement a systematic approach to your own practice, including information on:
- health promotion in the context of the healthcare setting
- the role of the nurse in promoting health
- evidence-based practice
- politics, policy and ethics for health education and promotion