Promoting Health

The seventh edition of Promoting Health is an essential book for a range of health practitioners to guide their health promotion practice within a comprehensive primary health care context.

With a new author team featuring Jane Taylor and Lily O’Hara, the book explores the socio-ecological determinants of health and wellbeing as a foundation for holistic, ecological, salutogenic health promotion practice. The health promotion practice cycle, including evidence-based community assessment, program planning, implementation and evaluation, is described in detail. The book also includes chapters on five health promotion action areas.

Promoting Health is a comprehensive, easy-to-understand resource that students and practitioners will find themselves returning to throughout their studies and professional practice.

Part 1: Health promotion development and concepts
• Chapter 1: Health promotion in context
• Chapter 2: Core concepts informing health promotion practice
• Chapter 3: Ecological sustainability and human health and wellbeing

Part 2: Health promotion practice
• Chapter 4: Program development and evaluation
• Chapter 5: Healthy public policy: creating environments and settings that support wellbeing and health promotion
• Chapter 6: Community development action for social and environmental change
• Chapter 7: Health education and health literacy
• Chapter 8: Health information and social marketing
• Chapter 9: Immunisation, screening, risk assessment and surveillance