Health promotion throughout the life span / edited by Carole Edelman and Carol Lynn Mandle - Seventh edition. - St. Louis, Missouri : Mosby Elsevier, c2010 - xix, 697 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Health defined : objectives for promotion and prevention -- Emerging populations and health -- Health policy and the delivery system -- The therapeutic relationship -- Ethical issues relevant to health promotion -- Health promotion and the individual -- Health promotion and the family -- Health promotion and the community -- Screening -- Health education -- Nutrition counseling -- Exercise -- Stress management -- Holistic health strategies -- Overview of growth and development framework -- The prenatal period -- Infant -- Toddler -- Preschool child -- School-age child -- Adolescent -- Young adult -- Middle-age adult -- Older adult -- Health promotion for the twenty-first century.

Offers comprehensive coverage of various major concepts of health promotion and disease prevention. This book highlights growth and development throughout the life span, emphasizing normal development as well as the specific problems and health promotion issues common to each stage.

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RT 90.3 .H43 2010