Health Promoting Practice (Paperback)  | Released: 05 Oct 2005

This companion volume to Health Promotion: Professional Perspectives, considers in more depth the health promotion role of nurses and Allied Health Professions (AHPs). Health promotion, within the broader framework of public health, is considered to be more effective when comprehensive approaches are adopted. Many recent public health policy directives have advocated interprofessional collaboration. This text, in exploring the wide range of health promoting professional activities that nurses and AHPs engage in, will inform practice and facilitate cross-boundary multiprofessional partnershipsAbout the Author: ANGELA SCRIVEN is Course Leader for the MSc in Health Promotion and Public Health at Brunel University, UK. Her previous publications include Health Promotion: Professional Perspectives 2nd edition (2001).ANGELA SCRIVEN is Course Leader for the MSc in Health Promotion and Public Health at Brunel University, UK. Her previous publications include Health Promotion: Professional Perspectives 2nd edition (2001).