Schools can have a major effect on children's health by providing a healthy physical environment, serving meals and snacks built around sound nutritional guidelines, and teaching about health, as well as modeling and promoting healthy behaviours. School nurses, teachers, adminis…
"Students interested in pursuing professional careers in one of the school health-related fields will find the breadth and depth of topics to be useful in learning more about the various professions and how they work together in school settings."--Introduction, xxiv.
Offers quick access to health and wellness information most relevant to children in America's K-12 school setting, including guidance on developmental stages, acute and chronic illnesses, special education, nutrition, crisis response, prevention, and more.
Good communication is at the heart of strategies for effective health promotion and public health. This book follows the campaign design process step-by-step. It covers different stages from selecting theoretical models and identifying the message and target audience, right thro…
Good communication is at the heart of strategies for effective health promotion and public health. At a time when lifestyle and preventable diseases are still on the rise, practitioners need the skills to deliver effective health messages to the right audience, at the right time…
At a time when preventable diseases are still on the rise practitioners are in need of the skills to deliver effective health messages to the right audience, at the right time. Responding to this demand, this book provides a practical guide to the process of designing, implement…
"Within an organization, the responsibilities for environment, health, and safety are often under the direction of the same executive team in an organization. This new book shows how to measure the success of all types of programs and projects involving environment initiatives, …
"Within an organization, the responsibilities for environment, health, and safety are often under the direction of the same executive team in an organization. This new book shows how to measure the success of all types of programs and projects involving environment initiatives, …
Cancer ranks second only to heart disease as a leading cause of death in the United States, making it a tremendous burden in years of life lost, suffering, and economic costs. Fulfilling the Potential of Cancer Prevention and Early Detection reviews the evidence that we can dram…
How do you design an effective message for a health campaign? This book explores this question from both practical and theoretical perspectives. The contributors demonstrate the necessity of basing message design decisionson appropriate theories of human behaviour and communicat…