This open access textbook represents a vital contribution to global
health education, offering insights into health promotion as part
of patient care for bachelor's and master's students in health care
(nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists,
radiotherapists, social care workers etc.) as well as health care
professionals, and providing an overview of the field of health
science and health promotion for PhD students and researchers.
Written by leading experts from seven countries in Europe, America,
Africa and Asia, it first discusses the theory of health promotion
and vital concepts. It then presents updated evidence-based health
promotion approaches in different populations (people with chronic
diseases, cancer, heart failure, dementia, mental disorders,
long-term ICU patients, elderly individuals, families with newborn
babies, palliative care patients) and examines different health
promotion approaches integrated into primary care services. This
edited scientific anthology provides much-needed knowledge,
translating research into guidelines for practice. Today's medical
approaches are highly developed; however, patients are human beings
with a wholeness of body-mind-spirit. As such, providing
high-quality and effective health care requires a holistic
physical-psychological-social-spiritual model of health care is
required. A great number of patients, both in hospitals and in
primary health care, suffer from the lack of a holistic oriented
health approach: Their condition is treated, but they feel scared,
helpless and lonely. Health promotion focuses on improving people's
health in spite of illnesses. Accordingly, health care that
supports/promotes patients' health by identifying their health
resources will result in better patient outcomes: shorter hospital
stays, less re-hospitalization, being better able to cope at home
and improved well-being, which in turn lead to lower health-care
costs. This scientific anthology is the first of its kind, in that
it connects health promotion with the salutogenic theory of health
throughout the chapters. the authors here expand the understanding
of health promotion beyond health protection and disease
prevention. The book focuses on describing and explaining
salutogenesis as an umbrella concept, not only as the key concept
of sense of coherence.
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