Health promotion throughout the life span / [electronic resource] Carole Lium Edelman, Elizabeth Connelly Kudzma.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Health promotion, protection, and prevention -- Emerging populations and health -- Health policy and the delivery system -- The therapeutic relationship -- Ethical issues related to health promotion -- Health promotion and the individual -- Health promotion and the family -- Health promotion and the community -- Screening -- Health education -- Nutrition counseling for health promotion -- Exercise -- Stress management -- Complementary and alternative strategies -- Overview of growth and development framework -- The childbearing period -- Infant -- Toddler -- Preschool child -- School-age child -- Adolescent -- Young adult -- Middle-aged adult -- Older adult -- Health promotion for the twenty-first century : throughout the life span and throughout the world.

"This edition presents health data with related theories and skills that are needed to understand and practice when providing care. This book focuses on primary prevention intervention; its three main components are: (1) health promotion, (2) specific health protection and (3) prevention of specific diseases" -- Provided by publisher.