Public Health and Health Promotion for Nurses at a Glance

Public Health and Health Promotion for Nurses at a Glance is the perfect companion for study and revision for nursing students and practitioners. Health promotion is a growing core component of nursing care, and this text combines superb illustrations with accessible information to make the key concepts of health promotion clear and easy to understand. It also provides guidance for how this can be applied in daily practice in all fields of nursing to promote the health of individual patients and communities.

Divided into six sections, the first looks at the relationship between the outcomes of public health and the outcomes of nursing, before going on to explore the definitions and different approaches of health promotion.This includes the causes and determinants of morbidity and mortality, and the skills and resources that can support nurses in promoting health with individual patients.  It also examines strategies for working with communities to improve health, as well as the ethics of health promotion in nursing.

The perfect revision and consolidation textbook Closely linked with the public health outcomes as represented by the NMC, the 6Cs of nursing, essential nursing skills clusters as well as the implications for nursing arising from recent inquiries. Highly visual colour presentation, with full colour illustrations throughout

Preface

About the authors

Acknowledgements

Unit 1: What has Public Health to do with Nursing?

Chapters:

1. What is public health and why is it relevant to nursing?

2. Some historical points of public health

3. Determinants of health

4. Health improvement and the role of the nurse

5. What people think about public health

6. How public health is measured: Epidemiology

7. The prevention of premature mortality: screening

8. Health Surveillance

9. Public health outcomes and the role of the nurse

10. Inequalities in health

11. Inequality and social class

12. The relationship between public health and competency standards for registered nurses

Unit 2. What has Health promotion to do with nursing?

1. Health promotion

2. Aspect of health promotion

3. Primary and secondary prevention  of ill health and health education 1.  Cardiovascular disease in men

4. Primary and secondary prevention of ill health and health education    2. Children′s dental health

5. Primary and secondary prevention of ill health and health education 3. Self harm

6. Primary and secondary prevention of ill health and health education 4. Obesity and people with a learning disability

7a Tertiary prevention of ill health and health education – cardiovascular disease in men and dental health in children

7b Tertiary prevention of ill health and health education  – Self harm. Obesity in people with a learning disability

Unit 3. Causes of mortality and Morbidity

1. Different experience of health through the lifespan

2. Long term conditions – all ages

3. Cardiovascular disease

4. Respiratory disease

5. Cancers

6. Child and Adolescent Mental Health

7. Depression

8. Dementia

Unit 4 How nurses can work with individual patients to promote health

1. Why is behaviour change so difficult

2. Models of health behaviour

3. Models and theories of behaviour change

4. Readiness to change

5. Self efficacy and resilience

6. Skills to support behaviour change

7. Skills supporting behaviour change  Example 1. Jenna

8. Skills supporting behaviour change  Example 2. Rachel

9. Further examples of supporting behaviour change – Jenny, Shaheed, & Deena

Unit 5. Strategies for working with communities to improve health

1. Community health and public health

2. Factors that influence the health of communities

3. Barriers to the success of community health improvement programmes

4. Factors that may promote the success of community health improvement programmes

5. Health Profiles

Unit 6 Ethics of public health and health promotion

1. Ethical principles

2. Nursing and ethics

3. Application of ethical principles to public health issues

4. The stewardship model

5. Acceptable health goals

6. Opportunity and choice vs coercion

7. Individual vs collective issues in public health strategies

8. Individual vs collective issues in public health. Example 1. Alcohol

9. Individual vs collective issues in public health . Example 2. People with learning disabilities

10. Ethical issues in engaging people in conversations about health. An overview

Index