Introduction to Health Promotion

A GUIDE TO THE FOUNDATIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF HEALTH PROMOTION Introduction to Health Promotion offers a comprehensive guide to and understanding of basic health promotion concepts and methods. The text shows how their application to health and health behaviors within communities can empower people to make healthy choices, so they can live longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, and premature death. This important resource puts a special emphasis on the philosophical and theoretical foundations of health promotion. It identifies and discusses the innovative health campaigns, strategies, and policies being implemented and enacted to improve health behaviors and practices that ultimately improve quality of life. A comprehensive text, it delves into critical issues such as the application of behavior change theories, planning models, and current wellness topics like nutrition, physical activity, and emotional well–being, among others. Introduction to Health Promotion contains health behavior change theories that include constructs on how individuals approach personal behavior change. The author also provides a discussion of the health behaviors that influence the onset of chronic disease in our country and how and why these behaviors have changed over time. In addition, the text reveals how state and federal governments engage in promoting healthful living for their consumers, what associations and certifications support the health promotion profession, where health promotion is taking place, and the job opportunities available for this profession. The text also includes information on future trends in health promotion as we move through the twenty–first century. Introduction to Health Promotion is designed to prepare students in the health promotion, health education, and public health fields, with an overview of the foundations, history, and current perspectives of health promotion, as well as its key methods and applications.

Foreword Preface The Editor The Contributors Chapter 1 Health Promotion: An Emerging Field Brief Overview of Health in the 20th Century Health Promotion: An Emerging Field Determinants of Health Important Health Promotion Concepts Health Promotion Meets the Health Care System Positions in the Health Promotion Field Chapter 2 Health Behavior Change Theories A Case for Theories and Models Related to Health Behavior Change Health Behavior Theories Social Cognitive Theory Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change Health Belief Model Theory of Planned Behavior Historical Perspective Chapter 3 Program Planning Models Effective Health Promotion Planning Social Ecological Model PRECEDE–PROCEED Model Multilevel Approach to Community Health (MATCH) Consumer–Based Planning Models for Health Promotion CDCynergy Making Health Communication Programs Work Health Promotion Planning Model for Community–Level Programs Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) Chapter 4 Tobacco Use: Trends, Health Consequences, Cessation, and Policies Tobacco Use Smoking Tobacco and Chronic Disease Smokeless Tobacco and Chronic Disease Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Chronic Disease Political and Cultural History of Tobacco Use Recent Efforts to Reduce Tobacco Use Effective Programs that Discourage Tobacco Use Challenges to Reducing Smoking Chapter 5 Eating Behaviors: Food Choices, Trends, Programs and Policies Eating Behaviors Nutrition, Eating Habits, and Health Recommended Nutrition and Dietary Intake History of Nutrition and Dietary Patterns Recent Efforts to Promote Healthy Eating Chapter 6 Physical Activity Behaviors: Benefits, Trends, Programs, and Policies Physical Activity Benefits of Physical Activity Recommended Physical Activity Levels Physical Activity Patterns Physical Activity Behaviors and Barriers Efforts and Initiatives to Increase Physical Activity Policies that Promote Increasing Physical Activity Chapter 7 Stress, Emotional Wellbeing, and Mental Health The Origins of the Term “Stress” The Fight or Flight Response Stress Physiology Eustress and Distress Life Stress and Illness Coping: Stress Management Techniques Stress at Work Mental Health in Communities Mental Health Disparities Stress Management in Children Chapter 8 Clinical Preventive Services: Trends, Access, Promotion, and Guidelines Benefits of Evidence–Based Clinical Preventive Services Recommended Levels of Preventive Services History of Preventive Services The U.S Preventive Task Force The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Promoting the Use of Preventive Services Challenges to Increasing the Use of Evidence–Based Preventive Services Chapter 9 National and State Initiatives to Promote Health and Well Being Health People 1979–2020 United States Department of Health and Human Services United States Department of Agriculture Monitoring the Nation’s Health State Initiatives Local Programs Chapter 10 Setting for Health Promotion The Home Communities Early Childhood Centers Schools Colleges/Universities The Worksite Health Care Providers Faith–Based Centers The Internet Chapter 11 Health Promotion–Related Organization, Associations, and Certifications Nonprofit Health Associations Professional Health Associations Scholarly Professional Journals Certifications Chapter 12 Trends in Health Promotion

ANASTASIA SNELLING, P H D, is a professor and associate dean in the School of Education, Teaching, and Health at American University. She has been a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics as a registered dietitian for over thirty years and a fellow in the American College of Nutrition.