Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span | Carole Lium Edelman, Carol Lynn Mandle

Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span | Carole Lium Edelman, Carol Lynn Mandle | Extremely tedious read

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	Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span Carole Lium Edelman, Carol Lynn Mandle Elsevier/Mosby, 2005 - 720 pages average customer review:based on 5 reviews view larger image
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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.

Extensive coverage of growth and development throughout all stages of the life span.
A unit on specific interventions for health promotion.
Addresses health promotion for all population groups - individual, family, and the community.
Incorporates Case Studies that depict actual clinical situations to give students a "real-life" perspective.
Innovative Practice examples highlight unique and creative health promotion programs.
Summarizes specific clinical interventions in Health Teaching boxes to provide students with "how-to" nursing actions.
Think About It clinical scenarios provide critical thinking questions to help readers grasp important concepts.
Multicultural Awareness boxes present cultural perspectives important to care planning.
Introduces significant issues, trends, and controversies in health promotion through Hot Topics boxes to engage students in critical discussion and debate about these topics.
Research Highlights emphasize current research efforts and research opportunities in health promotion.

A new Study Questions section (with answers and rationales) helps you review and assess your understanding of chapter content.
Care Plans are presented in a consistent format: Nursing Diagnosis, Defining Characteristics, Related Factors, Expected Outcomes, and Interventions.
Healthy People 2010 boxes highlight current national health promotion priorities.
A new full-color design helps to highlight important features and content.
A new companion Evolve website offers case studies with questions and answers, WebLinks, content updates, and a Glossary with search capability to enhance your learning experience.

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Just awful.

I have NEVER read a book labeled as health promotion that was less about health.

This book really belongs in a philosophy of new age theory.

You will learn how to enter into relationships of ethical proportions to help with self esteem issues of transgendered beings of consciousness.

At the same time you learn how to promote well being through the United Nations and universal transferance of wealth to achieve oneness.

The definition of disease:
"The failure of a person's adaptive mechanisms to counteract simuli and stresses adequately, resulting in functional or structural disturbances."

I guess we should just forget the old fashioned definition of " a condition of the living animal or plant body or of one of its parts that impairs normal functioning"

Define illness "A social construct in which people are in an imbalanced, unsustainable relationship with their environment and are failing in the ability to survive and to create a higher quality of life"

I used to think it was "an unhealthy condition of body or mind".

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Extremely tedious read

I am a first year nursing student, and this book is in use for my institutions "Nursing Across the Life Span" course. At first glance, I thought that this would be a comprehensive examination of health promotion. However, I have found it to be extremely tedious to read. The authors don't seem to know the meaning of the word "paraphrase", and write some incredibly convoluted explanations for what should be very simple concepts. I am already college educated, and did well in college. Yet, as I read this book, I found myself stopping to say "Huh?" Often, the definitions and explanations are direct quotes from other sources and they are nearly always convoluted and difficult. In short, I hate this book and find it quite a chore to have to read. It's page after page of tedium, and it doesn't have to be that way. Additionally, this book is terrible when it comes to defining important terms. True, it depicts important terms in bold print but often does not provide an in-text definition. Rather, I found myself having to stop and flip to the glossary in order to located the definiton. I don't like having to interrupt the flow of reading, and the way the book was written necessitated that. Several in my class have the same problem with this textbook, and we have asked the instructor to consider changing the text for next years class. This is a topic area that nurses absolutely need to understand, and it could be a very interesting topic. This text, however, does a poor job of presenting it. It's simply too convoluted and tedious to read. It isn't student friendly in the least, and I would not recommend it to anyone in its current form.

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