Promoting Health, 7th Edition

The Primary Health Care Approach
Authors :
Jane Taylor & Lily O’Hara & Lyn Talbot & Glenda Verrinder
Date of Publication: 03/2021
The seventh edition of Promoting Health is an essential book for a range of health practitioners to guide their health promotion practice within a comprehensive primary health care context. With a new author team featuring Jane Taylor and Lily O’ ...view more

The seventh edition of Promoting Health is an essential book for a range of health practitioners to guide their health promotion practice within a comprehensive primary health care context.

With a new author team featuring Jane Taylor and Lily O’Hara, the book explores the socio-ecological determinants of health and wellbeing as a foundation for holistic, ecological, salutogenic health promotion practice. The health promotion practice cycle, including evidence-based community assessment, program planning, implementation and evaluation, is described in detail. The book also includes chapters on five health promotion action areas.

Promoting Health is a comprehensive, easy-to-understand resource that students and practitioners will find themselves returning to throughout their studies and professional practice.

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The seventh edition of Promoting Health is an essential book for a range of health practitioners to guide their health promotion practice within a comprehensive primary health care context.

With a new author team featuring Jane Taylor and Lily O’Hara, the book explores the socio-ecological determinants of health and wellbeing as a foundation for holistic, ecological, salutogenic health promotion practice. The health promotion practice cycle, including evidence-based community assessment, program planning, implementation and evaluation, is described in detail. The book also includes chapters on five health promotion action areas.

Promoting Health is a comprehensive, easy-to-understand resource that students and practitioners will find themselves returning to throughout their studies and professional practice.


New to this edition
  • Updated framework for health promotion practice including distinction between comprehensive and selective primary health care approaches, and the addition of the health promotion practice cycle
  • Introduction to the values and principles of critical health promotion and their application within a comprehensive primary health care context
  • Increased focus on indigenous perspectives, with current Australian and New Zealand examples
  • Quizzes to check understanding of the content of each chapter

Key Features
  • Grounded in internationally recognised WHO health promotion frameworks including the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and subsequent charters and declarations
  • The role of systemic determinants of health and wellbeing including the social, economic, cultural, political, natural and built environments for a sustainable future
  • Sets of questions on putting the Ottawa Charter into practice
  • Tables that map chapter content to relevant International Union for Health Promotion and Education core competencies
  • More to Explore sections with additional resources
  • Reflective questions that enable consolidation of learning through practice activities
  • An eBook included with all print purchases

Additional resources on evolve
• eBook on VitalSource
Instructor resources:
• Chapter reflective questions and model responses
• Chapter quiz questions with correct responses
• Image Gallery
• Weblinks
Student resources:
• Chapter reflective questions
• Chapter quiz questions
• Weblinks


Author Information
By Jane Taylor, PhD, M Hlth Prom, Grad Cert Int Hlth, BEd, Associate Professor in Public Health (Health Promotion), University of the Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia; Lily O’Hara, PhD, M Pub Hlth, Postgrad Cert Hlth Prom, BScPhD, M Pub Hlth, Postgrad Cert Hlth Prom, BSc, Associate Professor in Public Health (Health Promotion), Qatar University, Qatar; Lyn Talbot, Dr Pub Hlth, M Hlth Sc, Grad Dip Hlth Sc, Grad Cert Higher Ed, RN, Corporate and Community Planner—Strategy, City of Greater Bendigo, VIC, Australia and Glenda Verrinder, PhD, M Hlth Sc, Grad Dip Hlth Sc, Grad Cert Higher Ed, Cert CHN, RN, RM, Senior Lecturer, La Trobe Rural Health School, School of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, VIC, Australia