Health Education (4th Edition)

Author: Huang Jingheng
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Publish Date: 2009-02-06
Features: This book consists of 22 chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the concepts, connotations, and development of health education and health promotion. Chapter 2 introduces the working methods of health education and health promotion—organization and management. Chapters 3–5 introduce the related disciplines of health education—behavior, communication, and evaluation indicators. Chapters 6–9 cover the planning, implementation, evaluation, and cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis of health promotion. Chapters 10–16 discuss health promotion work in different settings and populations (community, school, hospital, military, reproductive health, occupational health, and elderly). Chapters 17–21 elaborate on the important role of health education and health promotion in the control of chronic and acute diseases, intervention of risk factors, and prevention and control of specific examples such as chronic disease prevention, risk factor surveys, hypertension, smoking, and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Chapter 22 introduces health promotion for emergencies.