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Автор: (SOPHE) Society for Public Health Education
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited
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(SOPHE) is a nonprofit professional organization founded in 1950. SOPHE’s mission is to provide global leadership to the profession of health education and health promotion and to promote the health of society through advances in health education theory and research, excellence in professional preparation and practice, advocacy for public policies conducive to health, and the achievement of health equity for all. SOPHE is the only independent professional organization devoted exclusively to health education and health promotion.

      SOPHE’s membership extends health education principles and practices to many settings, including schools, universities, medical and healthcare settings, workplaces, voluntary health agencies, international organizations, and federal, state, and local governments.

      We are pleased to share this third edition of Health Promotion Programs: From Theory to Practice. The pandemic in 2020 shed a blinding light on critical conversations about equity and systemic injustice, which attained both new urgency and a well-deserved central role in our national conversation health and health promotion. We have all seen, in real time, how structural discrimination and obstacles to opportunity do their work in a crisis. In our communities, every burden—from rates of infection and care outcomes, to economic adversity, to the challenges of virtual learning when schools are closed—falls heaviest on those for whom true equity has always been farthest from reach. Health Promotion Programs: From Theory to Practice is being published as the pandemic recedes; however, we can’t simply assume that healing and recovery follow. It falls on all of us—individuals and communities, companies and governments—to ensure that what’s ahead is not just the end of a disease but a durable and hopeful future for all who sacrificed and endured during this unprecedented time.

      Undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare professionals to work in public health, health education, and health promotion and wellness have been flourishing in the United States and throughout the world for more than half a century. Thousands of students graduate every year with a baccalaureate or advanced degree in health promotion and get jobs in schools, colleges, businesses, healthcare facilities and systems, community organizations, and government.

      We are enormously grateful to the many SOPHE members who wrote this book. Their expertise in many fields, including health education, public health, sociology, anthropology, psychology, nursing, medicine, physical education, nutrition, allied health, and many others, have been braided into this health promotion anthology. They have shared the foundations of the field as well as their own practical experiences in health promotion planning. May this book help teach, guide, inspire, ignite, catalyze, and transform students and professionals in their quest to develop successful health promotion programs that address the health challenges of both today and tomorrow.

      The main purpose of the third edition is the same as the previous editions: to provide a comprehensive introduction to health promotion programs by combining the theory and practice with a hands-on guide to program planning, implementation, and evaluation. One of the fundamental premises of this book is the importance of using an approach based in both research and practice to guide and inform planning, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion programs. A secondary goal is to present the widespread opportunities to implement health promotion programs in schools, colleges and universities, communities, workplaces, and healthcare organizations and systems. This text addresses the needs of students and professionals who are pursuing careers in health education as well as nursing, medicine, public health, and allied health.

      The third edition presents the new opportunities for health promotion by embracing healthy equity and social justice in the application of health theories and health program planning models for diverse populations and settings. These issues are broad and of growing importance, so they are integrated into all of the chapters and in particular highlighted in the chapters that address health promotion in schools, colleges and universities, workplaces, healthcare organizations, and communities. We believe that these strengthen the book and increase its appropriateness for use with students and in settings around the world.

      Who Should Read This Book

      Overview of the Contents

      This volume presents an up-to-date understanding of health promotion program planning, implementation, and evaluation in a variety of settings. The book is divided into five parts. Part One presents the foundations of health promotion programs: what health and health promotion are, the history of health promotion, sites of health promotion programs, and the key people (stakeholders) involved in programs. Highlighted and explored are the two guiding forces in planning, implementing, and evaluating health promotion programs. The first is promoting health equity and social justice. The second is the use of health theories and planning models.

      Parts Two (planning), Three (implementing), and Four (evaluating) provide a step-by-step guide to planning, implementing, and evaluating a health promotion program. Each chapter within these parts covers specific phases of health promotion program planning, implementation, evaluation, and sustainability. Practical tips and specific examples aim to facilitate readers’ understanding of the phases as well as to build technical skills in designing and leading evidence-based health promotion programs.

      Part Five presents