Promoting human wellness : new frontiers for research, practice, and policy / edited by Margaret Schneider Jamner and Daniel Stokols.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jamner, Margaret Schneider.

Stokols, Daniel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health promotion--Social aspects.

Health promotion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (752 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a state-of-the-art educational resource on the latest research and public-policy developments in the fields of wellness promotion and disease prevention. Based on award-winning lectures by University of California faculty on nine campuses as part of the Wellness Lectures Program jointly funded by The California Wellness Foundation, Health Net, and the University of California, the volume aims to widen the scope of health care research and policy to promote wellness rather than focus on illness and disease, and to incorporate proactive, interdisciplinary approaches to health care.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Social Ecological Paradigm of Wellness Promotion; 2 The Societal Context of Disease Prevention and Wellness Promotion; 3 Promoting Wellness: Biomedical versus Outcomes Models; 4 Community Participation, Empowerment, and Health; 5 Genetic Determinism as a Failing Paradigm in Biology and Medicine; 6 Creating Health-Promotive Environments; 7 Theory-Based Evaluation; 8 Pregnancy Prevention Opportunities Focusing on the Younger Sisters of Childbearing Teens; 9 Immigrants May Hold Clues to Protecting Health during Pregnancy

10 Race and Health11 Health Promotion in Ethnic Minority Families; 12 Valuing Future Health in Social Policy and Human Health Behavior; 13 Health Promotion at the Dawn of the 21st Century; 14 Bridging the Clinical and Public Health Approaches to Smoking Cessation; 15 Disease Prevention versus Health Promotion; 16 Preventing Disability in Older Americans; 17 An Educational Approach to Engage Health Care Professionals in Wellness Promotion; 18 University-Community Partnerships to Promote Wellness in Children Youth and Families; 19 Strategies for Reducing Youth Violence

20 Adolescent Sexuality and Health Care Reform21 Improving Health and Safety in the Agricultural Workplace; 22 Enhancing Women's Health; 23 Cardiovascular Disease in Women; 24 HIV/AIDS Prevention; Afterword; Notes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

"Published in collaboration with the California Wellness Foundation and the Office of Health Affairs of the University of California."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-520-92591-2

1-59734-834-1

OCLC:

475931430