Health promotion strategies & methods /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Egger, Garry
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Sydney ; New York : McGraw-Hill, [1999]
Edition:Revised edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Towards better health
  • Changing health patterns
  • The case for prevention
  • What is health promotion?
  • The role of the health promotion practitioner
  • Strategies and methods in health promotion
  • Strategies
  • Methods
  • Ch. 2. Health and human behaviour
  • What motivates health behaviour?
  • The concept of individual risk
  • Health knowledge and behaviour
  • Attitudes, values and behaviour
  • Models of individual behaviour change
  • The cognitive-dissonance model
  • Maslow's hierarchy of needs
  • The health-belief model
  • The social-learning theory model
  • The theory of reasoned action
  • Protection-motivation theory
  • The theory of trying
  • Synthesising theories of health behaviour and developing practical programs
  • Ch. 3. Focus on the individual
  • Why individual approaches?
  • Individual methods
  • Patient education
  • Philosophy
  • Hospital programs
  • Primary health care
  • Health promotion 'shopfronts'
  • Risk factor assessments
  • Health Risk Appraisal (HRA)
  • Blood chemistry screening
  • Dietary assessment
  • Fitness assessments
  • Individual educational materials
  • Existing educational resources
  • Counselling
  • Conclusion
  • Ch. 4. Focus on groups
  • What is a group?
  • Group dynamics
  • Group methods
  • Adult learning
  • Detailed explanation of methods
  • Didactic methods
  • Experiential methods
  • Summary of group methods
  • Ch. 5. Focus on populations I - social marketing and the media
  • Community methods
  • Influencing community behaviour
  • Social marketing
  • Social marketing defined
  • Principles and practices of social marketing
  • Differences between commercial and social marketing - can we sell health like we sell soap?
  • Segmentation for health promotion
  • Using the media
  • Mass-media methods
  • Choosing media methods
  • Roles of the media in health promotion campaigns
  • Components of successful media campaigns
  • 'Hard-to-reach' audiences
  • Using limited-reach media
  • Printed materials
  • Appropriateness of print media
  • Using mass-reach media
  • Broadcast media
  • Printed media
  • Summary of social marketing and media use
  • Ch. 6. Focus on populations II - community organisation and community development
  • What is a community?
  • Community organisation and community development
  • Community organisation
  • Community development
  • Summary of community organisation and community development
  • Ch. 7. Focus on populations III - environmental adaptations
  • Altering behaviour or altering the environment
  • Health public policy
  • Regulatory interventions - the role of legislation and enforcement
  • Technological interventions
  • Organisational interventions - workplace health promotion
  • Organisational interventions - health-promoting schools
  • A healthy environment - ecological considerations
  • Implications for the health promotion practitioner
  • The use of incentives and disincentives
  • Sponsorship
  • Methods for modifying the health environment
  • Summary of environmental adaptations
  • Ch. 8. Selecting the right strategies and methods - what works?
  • Selecting strategies
  • Adoption of change
  • Issues for the future - economics and prevention
  • Counting the cost
  • Popular and unpopular health promotion
  • Health promotion - the human factor.