Health promotion throughout the life span / [edited by] Carole Lium Edelman, Carol Lynn Mandle. - 7th ed. - St. Louis, Mo. : Mosby, c2010. - xix, 697 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Health defined : objectives for promotion and prevention -- Emerging populations and health -- Health policy and the delivery system -- The therapeutic relationship -- Ethical issues relevant to health promotion -- Health promotion and the individual -- Health promotion and the family -- Health promotion and the community -- Screening -- Health education -- Nutrition counseling for health promotion -- Exercise -- Stress management -- Holistic health strategies -- Overview of growth and development framework -- The prenatal period -- Infant -- Toddler -- Preschool child -- School-age child -- Adolescent -- Young adult -- Middle-age adult -- Older adult -- Health promotion in the twenty-first century : throughout the life span and throughout the world.

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