Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span

This comprehensive text provides the most current and accurate health promotion and disease prevention information available. The book addresses health promotion for all ages and all population groups ― individuals, families, and communities. It includes extensive coverage of growth and development throughout the life span, with an emphasis on normal development as well as the specific problems and health promotion issues common to each stage. A complete unit is devoted to health promotion interventions. It also offers a unique assessment framework based on Gordon's Functional Health Patterns to provide consistency in presentation and an approach in line with the promotion of health.

• Extensive coverage of growth and development throughout all stages of the life span.
• A unit on specific interventions for health promotion.
• Addresses health promotion for all population groups - individual, family, and the community.
• Incorporates Case Studies that depict actual clinical situations to give students a "real-life" perspective.
• Innovative Practice examples highlight unique and creative health promotion programs.
• Summarizes specific clinical interventions in Health Teaching boxes to provide students with "how-to" nursing actions.
• Think About It clinical scenarios provide critical thinking questions to help readers grasp important concepts.
• Multicultural Awareness boxes present cultural perspectives important to care planning.
• Introduces significant issues, trends, and controversies in health promotion through Hot Topics boxes to engage students in critical discussion and debate about these topics.
• Research Highlights emphasize current research efforts and research opportunities in health promotion.

Private Practice, Professional Geriatric Care Management, Westchester County, New York.