Includes Index.

Contents: Introduction -- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention:the Challenges of the 21st century: The Human Quest for Health: Toward a definition of health -- Health as an evolving concept -- Health and illness: Distinct entities or opposite ends of a continuum? -- Definitions of health that focus on individuals -- Definitions of health that focus on the family -- Definitions of health that focus on the community -- Measurement of the meaning of health -- Directions for research on the meaning of health -- Directions for practice in the context of holistic health -- Summary -- Learning activities -- Selected websites -- Individual models to promote health: Human potential for change -- Use of multiple theories in behavior change -- A prevention model -- The health believe model -- Mixed models and theories of health promotion and prevention -- The theoretical basis for the health promotion model -- The health promotion model (revised) -- Interpersonal influences -- Interventions for health-behavior change -- Tailoring behavior-change interventions -- Maintaining behavior change -- Ethics of behavior change -- Directions for research in health behavior -- Directions for practice in motivating health behavior -- Summary -- Learning activities -- Selected web sites -- Community models to promote health: The concept of community -- Community assessment interventions and health promotion -- Community ecological models and theories -- Community planning models for health promotion -- Community dissemination models to promote health -- Directions for research in community-based models -- Directions for practice using community models of health -- Summary -- Learning activities -- Selected web sites -- Planning for health promotion and prevention: Assessing health and health behaviors: Nursing frameworks for health assessment -- Assessment of the individual clients -- Assessment of the family -- Assessment of the community -- Directions for research in health assessment -- Directions for practice in health assessment -- Summary -- Learning activities -- Selected web sites -- Developing a health promotion-prevention plan: Guidelines for preventive services and screenings -- The health planning process -- Revisions of the health promotion-prevention plan -- Community-level health promotion- prevention plan -- Directions for research in behavior change -- Summary -- Learning activities -- Selected web sites -- Interventions for health promotion and prevention: Physical activities and health promotion: Health benefits of physical activity -- Genetic and environmental effects on activity level -- Life-span patterns of physical activity -- Determinants of physical activity in children and adolescents -- Determinants of physical activity in adults -- The process of physical activity behavior change -- Interventions in primary care to promote physical activity -- Tailoring physical activity interventions -- Intensity of physical activity -- Risks of physical activity -- Interventions in the community to promote physical activity -- Directions for research in physical activity -- Directions for practice to promote physical activity -- Summary -- Learning activities -- Selected web site -- Diet, Nutrition, Prevention, and Health Promotion: The role of Diet and nutrition in prevention and health promotion -- Factors influencing eating behaviors -- Nutritional needs of special populations -- Interventions to change eating behaviors -- Meta-Analysis of clinical studies randomized clinical trials -- Maintaining recommended weight -- Initiating a weight- reduction program -- Directions for research in nutrition and health -- Directions for practice in nutrition and health -- Summary -- Learning activities -- Selected web site -- Stress management and health promotion: Stress and health -- Stress across the life span -- Approaches to stress management -- Directions for research in stress management -- Directions for practice in stress management -- Summary -- Learning activities -- Selected web sites -- Social support and health promotion: Social networks -- Social support -- Reviewing social support systems -- Social support and health -- Identifying social support strengths and needs -- Enhancing social support systems -- Directions for research in social support -- Directions for practice in social support -- Summary -- Learning activities -- Selected web sites -- Evaluating the effectiveness of health promotion: Measuring Outcomes of Health- Promotion and prevention interventions: Defining health outcomes -- Deciding which health outcomes to measure -- Developing a plan to measure health outcomes -- Challenges in measuring health outcomes -- Directions for research in outcomes measurement -- Directions for practice in achieving health outcomes -- Summary -- Learning activities -- Selected web sites -- Health promotion in diverse populations: Self-care for health promotion across the life span: The role of the professional nurse -- Self-care for health promotion throughout the life span -- Goals of health education for self-care -- The process of empowering for self-care to promote health -- The role of the internet in self-care education -- Directions for research in self-care -- Directions for practice in self-care -- Summary -- Learning activities -- Selected web sites -- Health promotion in vulnerable populations: Health status and health behaviors of vulnerable groups -- Eliminating health disparities -- Planning culturally competent health-promotion interventions -- Essential characteristics to consider in designing programs -- Strategies for implementing culturally appropriate interventions -- Directions for research in vulnerable populations -- Directions for practice in vulnerable populations -- summary -- Learning activities -- Selected web sites -- Approaches for promoting a healthier society: Health promotion in community settings: Health promotion in families -- Health promotion in schools -- health promotion at the work site -- Health promotion in nurse-managed community health centers -- The community at large as a setting for health promotion -- Creating health partnerships -- The role of partnerships in education, research, and practice -- Directions for research in multilevel health-promotion settings -- Summary -- Learning activities -- Selected web sites -- Promoting health through social and environmental change: Health as a social goal -- Health in a changing social environment -- Promoting health through public policy -- Promoting health through environmental change -- Voluntary change versus legislative policy -- Economic incentives for disease prevention and health promotion -- Directions for research in social and environmental change -- Directions for practice to promote social and environmental change -- Summary -- Learning activities -- Selected web sites.