Health Promotion and Health Education in Nursing: A Framework for Practice

By Dean Whitehead and Fiona Irvine

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.

Health Promotion and Health Education in Nursing is essential reading for all nursing students, qualified nurses and allied health professionals.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403940819
• ISBN13: 9781403940810
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"