Public Health and Health Promotion for Nurses at a Glance

Karen Wild is Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing at the University of Salford. Maureen McGrath worked as a Lecturer in Adult Nursing at the University of Salford.

Preface


About the authors


Acknowledgements


Unit 1: What has Public Health to do with Nursing?


Chapters:


1. What is public health and why is it relevant to nursing?


2. Some historical points of public health


3. Determinants of health


4. Health improvement and the role of the nurse


5. What people think about public health


6. How public health is measured: Epidemiology


7. The prevention of premature mortality: screening


8. Health Surveillance


9. Public health outcomes and the role of the nurse


10. Inequalities in health


11. Inequality and social class


12. The relationship between public health and competency standards for registered nurses


Unit 2. What has Health promotion to do with nursing?


1. Health promotion


2. Aspect of health promotion


3. Primary and secondary prevention of ill health and health education 1. Cardiovascular disease in men


4. Primary and secondary prevention of ill health and health education 2. Children's dental health


5. Primary and secondary prevention of ill health and health education 3. Self harm


6. Primary and secondary prevention of ill health and health education 4. Obesity and people with a learning disability


7a Tertiary prevention of ill health and health education - cardiovascular disease in men and dental health in children


7b Tertiary prevention of ill health and health education - Self harm. Obesity in people with a learning disability


Unit 3. Causes of mortality and Morbidity


1. Different experience of health through the lifespan


2. Long term conditions - all ages


3. Cardiovascular disease


4. Respiratory disease


5. Cancers


6. Child and Adolescent Mental Health


7. Depression


8. Dementia


Unit 4 How nurses can work with individual patients to promote health


1. Why is behaviour change so difficult


2. Models of health behaviour


3. Models and theories of behaviour change


4. Readiness to change


5. Self efficacy and resilience


6. Skills to support behaviour change


7. Skills supporting behaviour change Example 1. Jenna


8. Skills supporting behaviour change Example 2. Rachel


9. Further examples of supporting behaviour change - Jenny, Shaheed, & Deena


Unit 5. Strategies for working with communities to improve health


1. Community health and public health


2. Factors that influence the health of communities


3. Barriers to the success of community health improvement programmes


4. Factors that may promote the success of community health improvement programmes


5. Health Profiles


Unit 6 Ethics of public health and health promotion


1. Ethical principles


2. Nursing and ethics


3. Application of ethical principles to public health issues


4. The stewardship model


5. Acceptable health goals


6. Opportunity and choice vs coercion


7. Individual vs collective issues in public health strategies


8. Individual vs collective issues in public health. Example 1. Alcohol


9. Individual vs collective issues in public health . Example 2. People with learning disabilities


10. Ethical issues in engaging people in conversations about health. An overview


Index