Handbook of research on adult and community health education
Subtitle: tools, trends, and methodologies
By: Victor C.X. Wang, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Series: Advances in Human Services and Public Health (AHSPH) Book Series
Publisher: Medical Information Science Reference
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Hershey PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9781466662605; 9781466662636; 9781466662612
Subjects: Health Education; Patient Education as Topic
Description: "This book presents educational and social science perspectives on the state of the healthcare industry and the information technologies surrounding it, offering a compilation of some of the latest cutting edge research on methods, programs, and procedures practiced by health literate societies"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-466)and index.
Table of contents: title: The illness that dare not speak its name : an auto-ethnographic approach to understanding adult learning in and on clinical depression / Stephen D. Brookfield; title: Community-driven health-impact assessment : a promising path for promoting community learning and social responsibility for health / Maureen Coady; title: Educating adults to talk about death and dying to assist grieving children : a community development project / Clarena Larrotta and José Luis Moreno; title: The power of collaborative inquiry and metaphor in meeting the health literacy needs of rural immigrant women : a case of parent education / Al Lauzon, and Rachel Farabakhsh; title: Technology impact on new adult behavior about health information / Lesley Farmer; title: Mindfulness in health education and health promotion / Michelle Lee D'Abundo, Cara Lynn Sidman, and Debbie Heller; title: Learning with a curve : young women's depression as transformative learning / Paula S. Cameron; title: Transformative learning and empathy politics : adult learning and the mitigation of conflict / Marianne Robin Russo, and Victor C.X. Wang; title: Self-directed learning in family medicine / Theresa J. Barrett; title: Transformational learning for community health : the case of physical education teacher candidates / Carlos E. Quiñones-Padovani, and Clarena Larrotta; title: Choose health : tools for a healthy lifestyle / Eric T. Wanner, and Jennifer Lynne Bird; title: Adult education : the intersection of health and the ageing society / Linda Ellington; title: Using information technology to spread awareness about communicable diseases / Twiesha Vachhrajani, Lavanya Rao, and H. R. Rao; title: Human patient simulations : evaluation of self-efficacy and anxiety in clinical skills performance / Grace N. Onovo; title: Educational research narratives of healing / Jennifer Lynne Bird, and Eric T. Wanner; title: Health literacy : an essential ingredient for better health outcomes overview of health literacy theoretical concepts / Glenda Denson Knight; title: The cost of convenience : how does distance education mix with the modern-day student? / Jessica Miles; title: The self-cultivation model of lifelong learning : toward post-egoic development / Avraham Cohen, Heesoon Bai, Karen Fiorini; title: Student nurse simulation training incorporating disease management and telenursing for congestive heart failure (CHF) patients / Mary Ann Siciliano McLaughlin; title: A personal perspective and learning experience on living a long, healthy life / John A. Henschke; title: The building a psychometric instrument and data collection checklist for healthy aging initiatives / Marianne Robin Russo and Valerie C. Bryan.