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 Gordons Functional Health Patterns to provide consistency in presentation and an approach in line with the promotion of health.

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.

• Unit 1 Foundations for Health Promotion 1. Health Defined: Objectives for Promotion and Prevention 2. Changing Populations and Health 3. Health Policy and the Delivery System 4. The Therapeutic Relationship 5. Ethical Issues Relevant to Health Promotion Unit 2 Assessment for Health Promotion 6. Health Promotion and the Individual 7. Health Promotion and the Family 8. Health Promotion and the Community Unit 3 Interventions for Health Promotion 9. Screening 10. Health Education 11. Nutrition Counseling for Health Promotion 12. Exercise 13. Stress Management 14. Holistic Health Strategies Unit 4 Application of Health Promotion 15. Overview of Growth and Development Framework 16. The Prenatal Period 17. Infant 18. Toddler 19. Preschool Child 20. School-Age Child 21. Adolescent 22. Young Adult 23. Middle-Age Adult 24. Older Adult Unit 5 Challenges as We Enter the New Millennium 25. Health Promotion for the Twenty-First Century: Throughout the Lifespan and Throughout the World Glossary Study Questions