Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span (HEALTH PROMOTION THROUGHOUT THE LIFESPAN ( EDELMAN)) |  | Authors: Carole Lium Edelman APRN MS CS BC CMC, Carol Lynn Mandle PhD AP RN CNS FNP
Publisher: Mosby
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ISBN: 0323056628
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Up to date and easy to read, this textbook provides comprehensive coverage of all major concepts of health promotion and disease prevention. It highlights growth and development throughout the life span, emphasizing normal development as well as the specific problems and health promotion issues common to each stage. All population groups are addressed with separate chapters for individuals, families, and communities.
- UNIQUE! The assessment framework for this textbook is based on Gordon's Functional Health Patterns and offers a consistent presentation of content and a health promotion approach.
- Extensive coverage of growth and development throughout the life span emphasizes the unique problems and health promotion needs of each stage of development.
- UNIQUE! Think About It boxes present a realistic clinical scenario and critical thinking questions.
- UNIQUE! Multicultural Awareness boxes present cultural perspectives important to care planning.
- Research Highlights boxes discuss current research efforts and research opportunities in health promotion.
- UNIQUE! Hot Topics boxes explore significant issues, trends, and controversies in health promotion to spark critical discussion and debate.
- UNIQUE! Innovative Practice boxes offer examples of unique and creative health promotion programs and projects.
- Updated nutrition coverage includes MyPyramid from the FDA, as well as the latest information on food safety and fad diets.
- Expanded health policy coverage focuses on global health, historical perspectives, financing healthcare, concierge medical practices, and the hospitalist movement.
- Health Promotion for the Twenty-First Century explores current and future health promotion challenges and research initiatives.
- Updated Healthy People 2010 data includes midcourse review objectives and an introduction to Healthy People 2020.
- Case Studies and Care Plans summarize key concepts and show how they apply to real-life practice.
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 Delivered Fast November 18, 2009
Marsha S. Asher (Florida)
This book was required for a class. Happy to have found it here and it was delivered fast. Thank you.
 Worst Textbook Ever November 5, 2008
Jennifer Vanderlaan (Albany, NY)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is required for my Community Nursing course. I have completed more than half the book and am doing well in the class - but not due to actually having read it. To learn anything from this book takes mental acrobatics - seriously.
The organization seems well-defined, but the actual writing is so poorly executed that reading it is slow torture. The authors use as many words as possible to define every concept, turning what should be simple definitions into paragraph long sentences. The chapters drone on and on, making it nearly impossible to simply sit, read and gain an understanding of community health.
Each chapter takes you through Gordon's Functional Health Patterns to demonstrate how at every stage of life countless influences affect a person's health. Rather than taking a internal locus of control approach to health promotion, the book sees individuals as victims of life with little hope of overcoming all the obstacles to good health. As a previous reader noted, there is an overabundance of relying on government programs to ensure personal health.
But the book actually goes beyond describing individuals as helpless and actually characterizes individuals of low social-economic status in ways that can only be described as stupid. For example, in the chapter on infancy, a description of the risks for homeless infants is that they will not have cribs or be held. No explanation of why poor parents will not hold their children, no citation of research on parenting styles of homeless (or even poor) parents. Just the assumption that if you are poor you don't hold your baby. When I showed some of my concerns to my clinical adviser she was actually offended at how ridiculously inept the book claims individuals are simply because they are poor.
Very little useful information is offered, and what is is poorly researched. Citations are few and far between leaving me only to assume most of the information in this book is the opinion of the authors and should not be used for evidence-based practice.
The Worst Textbook Ever November 3, 2008
d (Haha, USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
As another reviewer observed, this textbook is about health and wellness as much as a cookbook is about farming. It's an insipid mishmash of sociological jargon, a smorgasbord of breathless passages like "A central unifying theme has historically linked definitions, philosophies, and frameworks of nursing, known as holistic attention to pattern recognition during the examination of person-environment relationships throughout the life span." There's enough postmodern hot air in these pages to inflate a fleet of Goodyear blimps.
In this book is an obsession with classifying every phenomena regarding the functioning of the human body as a process within a pattern within society. No connection is too tortured for the various authors; consider this labored definition of food intake as an example of the so-called "individual environmental focus of Gordon's framework. Although reference is made within many patterns to environmental influence, it often refers to the physical environment within and external to the individual. Common to each functional health pattern are environmental influences such as role relationships, family values, and societal mores. Personal preference, knowledge of food preparation, and ability to consume and retain food govern the individual's intake. Cultural and family habits, financial ability to secure the food, and crop availability also influence food intake. Additionally, the person who secures, prepares, and serves the food, such as the mother or father, controls nutritional intake for children."
I dare anybody, including the author of that horrendous passage, to explain to me what in the name of God any of that has to do with actual intake of food by actual persons. To my educated eye it seems that half the paragraph is some sort of convoluted explanation of why the rest of the explanation should be taken seriously!
Within these pages is an apparent attempt to define nursing as some sort of New Age-y, biopsychosocial-holistic-wellness pseudoscience that has little to do with actually improving the health of living people, and everything to do with ensuring its authors and editors get more grant money to blow studying the biopsychosocialspiritual effects of maple tree aesthetics on the anxiety problems of 2nd graders with ADD. You'll read about interpersonal energy flows; you'll read sentences like "blood pressure, for example, is a pattern within the activity and exercise pattern." If you're like me, you'll grow more and more enraged as Brobdingnagian helpings of silly vocabulary and infuriating functional redefinitions of words like "disease" ("The failure of a person's adaptive mechanisms to counteract stimuli and stresses adequately, resulting in functional or structural disturbances") and "health" ("A state of physical, mental, and social functioning that realizes the potential of which a person is capable") are smeared on page after page like so much flung scat.
Woven through the textbook like barbed wire is the assumption that the government, especially the federal government, should be the cure-all for societies ills, especially those of disadvantaged minorities. Paragraph which talk about various federal initiatives to combat various public health issues are too numerous to count. Individual responsibility is most definitely NOT a theme here; in fact, were I a "disadvantaged minority" I'd be frankly upset at the amount of condescending paternalism evinced by the authors.
For any nurse educators who stumble across this review, I beg you to forgo this particular textbook. If you choose to use it, your students are going to spend time laughing at it that they could be spending learning something useful. My study groups have had a great time picking various passages apart (and by doing so discovering just how utterly incomprehensible most of this book really is).
To the authors of this weak-minded nonsense, shame on you. You've no business trying to pass any of this bunk off as the art and science of nursing- in fact, you've got no business taking it anywhere but your sociology classes. The lot of you are preening PC New Age pseudo-intellectuals who wouldn't know scientific method if it crawled down your throat. I've managed to persuade my nursing department to ditch this atrocity, and I hope all other schools follow suit.
I didn't learn a thing. June 27, 2008
Julie (Pittsburgh)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Redundant and boring. I really didn't get much out of this book at all.
This Book is Worst than Illness October 1, 2007
Leah (NJ)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I found this to be the worst text book I have ever had to read, the test questions it offers, are based on one sentence out of each chapter rather than concepts.
It has no underlying themes rather than any one of an ethnic minority
MUST have poor health which is of itself racist and discriminating. I would completely disagree by saying that I know plenty of healthy people who are of minority statuses.
The book is extremely boring to read and I agree with the first review, it just very repetetive and does not explain any concept in its own words.
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