Lyn Talbot

Glenda Verrinder

Promoting Health examines the social, environmental, cultural and psychological determinants of health and illness and the role that primary health care has in addressing health inequalities and the broad range of skills that health practitioners need to address this issue. In this new edition, the authors have uniquely utilised two fundamental tenets central to all health promotion practice and developed key features from both the World Health Organization’s Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and the International Union for Health Promotion and Education’s Core Competencies for Health Promotion. Drawing on internationally recognised health promotion frameworks, this text provides an essential toolkit for health promotion theory and practice for students across a broad range of disciplines. Putting the Ottawa Charter into Practice - illustrates the relevance and application of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion to practice IUHPE Core Competencies for Health Promotion - outlines the relevant core competencies and how to achieve these skills EVOLVE RESOURCES: This new edition features student and instructor evolve resources to enhance your teaching and your student’s learning. Student and Instructor Resources Reflective Questions at the end of each chapter Insights – extra questions with answers to encourage self-directed learning Additional Student Activities – further learning and study aids for each chapter Instructor only Resources Facilitator & Lecturer Guide provides direction for learning activities to incorporate into your teaching Visit http://evolve.elsevier.com/AU/Talbot/promotinghealth/ to find out more Identification of IUHPE Core Competencies For Health Promotion in all chapters ‘More to explore’ sections at the end of each chapter featuring additional readings and web links Updates to current policy and practice initiatives References embedded in each chapter to encourage readers to explore topics in more detail Includes eBook with print purchase on evolve

The Primary Health Care Approach

Promoting Health

Valerie A. Brown

John Grootjans

Jan Ritchie

Mardie Townsend

Radical changes in the biosphere and human interaction with the environment are increasingly impacting on the health of populations across the world. Diseases are crossing the species barrier, and spreading rapidly through globalised transport systems. From new patterns of cancer to the threat of global pandemics, it is imperative that public health practitioners acknowledge the interdependence between the sustainability of the environment and the sustainability of the human species * Why are issues of global and local sustainability of increasing impotance to the public's health? * Why do issues of sustainability require new practices within the professions of public health? * How can future and current public health practitioners develop those new practices? Drawing on scientific evidence of global and local environmental changes, Sustainability and Health offers a thorough background and practical solutions to the overlapping issues in environment and health. It examines potential and existing responses to global and local environment and health issues involving individuals, community, industry and government. The authors introduce a range of emerging conceptual frameworks and theoretical perspectives, link IT and epidemiology and explain how scoping can link program design, delivery, data collection and evaluation in projects from their very beginning. Public health practitioners need to be able to manage health issues that cut across environmental, economic and social systems and to develop the capacity for leadership in facilitating change. Incorporating learning activities, readings, international case studies and an open learning approach, this is a valuable resource for students of public and environmental health, as well as medical, environmental and health science professionals.

Supporting Global Ecological Integrity in Public Health

Sustainability and Health

This new edition continues to build on the sound philosophical approach of the previous editions. Provides an even stronger global perspective whilst highlighting the inextricable ties between the health of populations with the social, environmental and political context of people's lives. Authors from La Trobe Uni, Australia.

Glenda Verrinder

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