Full Description
Healthy behaviors, at the individual and community levels, are imperative to improving and sustaining better public health. With a strong focus on prevention, health promotion strategies are crucial to improving quality of life, while taking into account the various determinants of health. This book provides a global perspective, with an emphasis on contextual issues with health promotion in South Asia for understanding challenges and related strategies. Readers will be comprehensively introduced to healthy behaviors through case studies, covering theories, interventions, and approaches to promote healthy behavior, the impact of policy, and how behavior change can be sustained.
Key features:
Covers existing and emerging issues in health promotion
Input from globally renowned public health experts with a multidisciplinary approach to content and audience
Connects with health systems and relevant sustainable development goals
Provides case studies for enabling readers to understand and apply evidence-based solutions to key public health issues
Contents
Preface
About the editors
List of contributors
Section I: Health Promotion Approaches
Perspectives 1: Promoting health and wellbeing through values-based practice
1. Approaches to health promotion. 2. Human rights-based approaches to public health and health promotion. 3. Facilitating People-Centred Health and Care through Patient and Public Involvement. 4. Prevention and Management of Substance Use: health promotion and behavioural approaches. 5. Social Media for promoting Health.
Section II: Application of Health Promotion Concepts and Approaches
6. Public Health Nutrition Approaches to Health Promotion. 7. Public Health Approaches to Tobacco Control.
Annexure 1
Case Study: Sustaining Behavior Change: Institutionalizing Health Interventions.
8. Public Health Approaches to Promoting Physical Activity. 9. Public Health Approaches to Safe Food and Water.
Perspective 2.
10. Public Health approaches in cancer screening and prevention: experiences from ground level.
Case Study: Application of Health promotion for cancer prevention - lessons from the field.
11. Public Health approaches: Road Traffic Injury prevention.
Section III: Health Promotion Practices in Different Settings
Perspectives 3: Health promotion in a complex world.
12. Health promotion for prevention and control of cancer in low- and middle-income countries. 13. Health Promotion is Site-Specific. 14. Public health approaches to healthy behaviours among children and adolescents in schools.
Case Study: "UDAAN: Towards a Better Future..."
Case Study: Planning damages public health.
Case Study: Using Creative Arts for Health Promotion.
Case Study: Using Theatre for Health Promotion: A Case Study from Punjab, India.
Section IV: Health Promotion Approaches to Address Social Determinants & Disparities
15. Considering the social, cultural, and contextual factors in health promotion: An anthropological snapshot.
Case Study: Cleaner, Healthier, and Happier. Using edutaining approaches for shifting attitudes and behaviours.
16. Addressing inequities and vulnerabilities in health and development: can we close the gap in a generation? 17. Culture sensitive approaches towards alleviating health disparities for promoting health.
Index
