Description
This handbook offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of health promotion and health literacy across the life course, social contexts, and population groups. Bringing together theoretical frameworks, empirical evidence, and practice-based insights, the book situates health promotion within broader contexts of equity, human rights, sustainability, and social justice.
The opening chapters set the conceptual foundations by examining health promotion through multiple perspectives such as intersectionality, human rights, life course theory, and the social determinants of health. The volume then advances key hypotheses and models of health behaviour change, highlighting structural drivers of health inequalities and the critical role of community participation in shaping effective health promotion strategies. Attention is also given to the integration of traditional healthcare practices and the challenges and opportunities of health-promoting settings, including universities and schools.
Another focus of the book is health literacy, explored in depth through cultural, social, behavioral, and critical perspectives. Chapters address social capital, sustainability, health and well-being promoting behavior, and knowledge construction, with particular emphasis on low and middle-income countries and under privileged populations. There are chapters that examine cancer literacy, vaccine literacy, and digital and mobile health literacy as tools for reducing health disparities.
The latter sections of the book present diverse applications and interventions in health promotion and health literacy, spanning perinatal health, nutrition, mental health, caregiving, aging, neurodiversity, occupational health, and sports. Community-based and participatory approaches—such as mindfulness programs, peer support initiatives, applied theatre, ecosystem-based models, and culturally grounded healing practices—demonstrate how theory can be translated into practice across varied social and cultural settings.
Overall, this volume serves as a valuable resource for researchers, educators, policymakers, and practitioners in public health, health promotion, health education, and related fields. By bridging theory, research, and practice, it offers critical insights and practical guidance for advancing health promotion and health literacy in diverse and evolving contexts.
Table of Contents
Introduction to health promotion.- Health promotion and theories.-Healthy university concept.-Health promoting school concept.-Health promoting prison.-Food literacy and health.-Community nutrition and illness prevention.-Stress and health promotion.-Promoting maternal and child health.-Mental health promotion.-Primary health approach and health promotion.-Health promotion: A proposed guideline.- Health literacy and theories.- Health education and theories.- Health literacy and health disparities.- The social embeddedness in health literacy.- Cultural dimensions and healthliteracy.- Critical health literacy.- Moving health education and behavior upstream: Structural driers of health inequalities.- Mental health literacy.- Media and health literacy.- Digital technology and health literacy.- Health literacy and health promotion.- Environmental health literacy.- Health literacy and health promotion.- Health literacy and chronic illnesses.- Health behaviour change and education.- Improving health literacy in communities.- Vaccine literacy.- Support programs for family members of chronic illness.- School-based health promotion programs.- Cardiovascular disease prevention and rehabilitation.- Mindfulness practices and behavioral change.- Yoga and pilates as health promoting behavior.- Tai chi and Qigong and health promotion.- Meditation and health enhancement.- Advancing community health support: Application of web-based and AI-based programs.- Support programs for strengthening health promotion behaviors among family caregivers of people with dementia.- Pet insect-assisted therapy and health enhancement.- Cognitive behavioral therapy.- Behavioral lifestyle program.- Sports and health promotion.- Health promotion and humanoid robots.- Health coaching intervention and health promoting behavior.- Health promotion intervention delivered in barbershops and hair salons.- The ‘Have fun—be healthy’ intervention delivered in the playgroup setting.- Context-sensitive health promotion intervention ‘Fact-it’.- E-health and mHealth and health promotion.- Health literacy interventions and community pharmacists.- Promoting health literacy in prisons.- The ‘Health Animator’ approach and behavior change strategy for malaria control.- Using photovoice to improve health literacy.- Mobile health literacy interventions and reduction of health disparities.- Smart Kidney mobile application for people with chronic kidney disease-The use of codesigned-based intervention to promote self-management in Vietnam.- CBPR research and health promotion.- Photovoice and health literacy improvement/health promotion.- Walking interviews and health promotion.- Digital storytelling method and health promotion.- Social networking method and health behavior.- Mixed methods research and health seeking behavior.- Motivational interviewing method and health behavior.- Concept mapping method and health literacy.- Concept analysis and health promoting behavior.- Evaluation of health promotion programs.- Measuring health behavior and health literacy.
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