Transforming Health Promotion Practice: Concepts, Issues and Applications

Abstract

Part 1 Foundations of health promotion practice: transforming health promotion practice - moving toward client-centred care historical, theoretical and philosophical foundations of health promotion. Part 2 Key concepts for transforming health promotion practice: beyond interpersonal communication - the significance of relationship in health promoting practice health promoting interactions - insights from the chronic illness experience listening to multiple voices - consumer participation in health care decision making emancipation politics and health promotion practice - the nursing practitioner as social activist transformational leadership for health promotion practice nurses influencing health care policy - international perspectives. Part 3 Challenges and controversies - revisiting and recreating knowledge for transformative health promotion practice: self-care - examining the myth health promotion, moral harm and the moral aims of nursing defining and managing health risk - snapshots of women's strategies across the lifespan mental health promotion -a conceptual overview nursing support with family members of the critically ill - a framework to guide practice governing the health of populations - conversations in the clinic human genome project - implications for nursing practice what is quality of care? a hospital health promotion perspective. Part 4 Health promotion research: perspectives on learning and practicing health promotion in hospitals - nursing students' stories meditation-based stress reduction - holistic practice in nursing education mid-life women's empowerment process within a group family health promotion within the demands of paediatric home care and nursing respite promoting health through participatory action research -lessons learned from STEPS (study of environments that promote safety) more than just questions - implementation and evaluation of an arthritis self-management programme in Aboriginal communities enhancing nursing health promotion practice through cooperative injury. Part 5 A critique of transformative health promotion practice: transforming practice, dodging false dichotomies and avoiding ideological quicksand.