Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span

With the advent of health care reform and an emphasis on reducing health care costs, health promotion and disease prevention is a priority in nursing care. Be prepared with Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span, 8th Edition, your comprehensive guide to major health promotion concepts. Featuring practical guidance – including boxes on diversity awareness, evidence-based practice, innovative practice, hot topics, and quality and safety as well as case studies and care plans – our experienced authors give you all the tools you need to stay current on the latest research and trends in health promotion.

• Extensive coverage of growth and development throughout the lifespan emphasizes the unique problems and health promotion needs of each age and stage of development.
• Separate chapters on each population – group, individual, family, and community – stress the unique issues faced when providing care to each group.
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes emphasize current research efforts and opportunities in health promotion.
• Hot Topics and Innovative Practice boxes engage students’ interest by introducing significant issues, trends, and creative programs and projects in health promotion practice.
• Diversity Awareness boxes address various cultural perspectives and provide important information that needs to be considered in planning care.
• Case studies and care plans present realistic situations that challenge students to reflect upon important health promotion concepts.
• Think About It boxes dig deeper into the chapter topic and encourage critical thinking.
• Numerous pedagogical features such as objectives, key terms, and textual summaries highlight the most important concepts and terms in each chapter.

• Updated nutrition coverage includes MyPyramid from the FDA, as well as the latest information on food safety and fad diets.
• Expanded health policy coverage focuses on global health, historical perspectives, financing healthcare, concierge medical practices, and the hospitalist movement.
• Health Promotion for the Twenty-First Century explores current and future health promotion challenges and research initiatives.
• Updated Healthy People 2010 data includes midcourse review objectives and an introduction to Healthy People 2020.
• Case Studies and Care Plans summarize key concepts and show how they apply to real-life practice.