2nd Edition
The Essential Guide to Public Health and Health Promotion
Designed to help readers develop the practical skills needed to become effective public health practitioners, this concise text gives a highly accessible overview of the theory and practice of public health and health promotion.
The book covers a comprehensive range of key topics, beginning with a discussion of theoretical models and approaches to public health, before addressing important issues such as equality, health education and governmental policy. It also offers readers:
- Information on health needs assessment, including how to research, plan and evaluate practice with individual clients or population groups.
- Methods of helping people with motivation for behaviour change, building rapport, ongoing support, and signposting to services.
- The role of communities in improving health and how to support local populations.
In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, this 2nd edition has been updated with new material around vaccination and communicable disease and includes expanded coverage of mental health issues. There’s also a new ‘reflective thinking’ feature to encourage a more critical approach.
The Essential Guide to Public Health and Health Promotion, 2nd edition is the ideal starting point for all those new to working or studying in the area, whatever their professional or academic background.
Foreward:
Dr. Patricia Owen. President Institute of Health Promotion and Education (IHPE)
1 What is Health?
Susan R Thompson
2 The Main Killers
Susan R Thompson
3 Health Inequalities
Susan R Thompson
4 Approaches and Models Used to Promote Health
Susan R Thompson
5 Health Needs Assessment
Susan R Thompson
6 Health Education and Information
Susan R Thompson
7 Supporting People Through Behaviour Change
Susan R Thompson
Mo Lockwood
8 Programme Planning
Susan R Thompson
Jane Bethea
Oliver Wilkinson-Dale
9 Health Promotion for Diverse Ethnic Communities
Vanessa McFarlane
10 Mental Health Promotion, Psychological Therapies and Young People's Mental Health
Matthew Horrocks
11 Promoting the Health of People with a Learning Disability
David Charnock
12 Health Promotion for Children and Young People
Katriona Cheng
13 Physical Activity Promotion
Michelle Turner
14 Future and Persistent Challenges in Public Health
Susan R Thompson
Biography
Susan R. Thompson has worked in the field of public health and health promotion for over 30 years within nursing, health promotion services and academia. She holds a masters degree in Public Health and has been an academic since 2005. In addition to this publication, she has published a range of articles and delivered international conference presentations and workshops. She is a trustee and board member of the Institute of Health Promotion and Education, an international body which seeks to support health promoters in their work and contribute to and lobby for policy change in the field of health promotion and public health.
