num_pages: 720
description: This comprehensive text provides the most current and accurate health promotion and disease prevention information available. The book addresses health promotion for all ages and all population groups ― individuals, families, and communities. It includes extensive coverage of growth and development throughout the life span, with an emphasis on normal development as well as the specific problems and health promotion issues common to each stage. A complete unit is devoted to health promotion interventions. It also offers a unique assessment framework based on Gordon's Functional Health Patterns to provide consistency in presentation and an approach in line with the promotion of health.
language: English
title: Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span
titlecomplete: Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span
genres: Nursing, College
ratings_count: 66
publisher: Elsevier/Mosby