Promoting Health: The Primary Health Care Approach - Softcover

Taylor BEd GradCertIntHlth MHlthProm PhD(PubHlth), Jane; O’Hara BSc PostgradDipHlthProm MPH PhD(PubHlth), Lily

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0729544710 ISBN 13: 9780729544719

Publisher: Elsevier, 2025

Synopsis

Promoting Health: The Primary Health Care Approach 8e supports a broad range of practitioners to understand the key values, principles, concepts and practices of health promotion in a primary health care context and apply these in their everyday work as health professionals.

The book comprehensively explores the role of structural and systemic determinants of health and health equity, and the social, cultural, economic, commercial, political, natural and built environments.

Fully updated throughout, the eighth edition addresses current global and local issues that impact on population health, including political and economic instability, climate change and pandemics.

• End of chapter reflective questions that enable users to consolidate their learning through practice activities and develop their health promotion competencies
• Covers hot topics, including climate and health, health equity, and the social, commercial and political determinants of health and wellbeing
• Each chapter aligned to core professional competencies for health promotion practice
• Aligned to the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion action areas
• Practice insights are presented throughout to demonstrate the application of concepts

Student resources on Evolve:

• Chapter reflective questions
• Chapter quiz questions

Facilitator resources on Evolve:

• Model responses to
  • Chapter reflective questions
  • Chapter quiz questions
• Image Gallery

About this title

About the Author

Jane Taylor works at the School of Health, University of Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0729544710
• ISBN 13: 9780729544719
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 436