Health Promotion for Nursing Students

Paul Linsley is a senior lecturer for the University of East Anglia (UEA). He teaches on a number of courses, both single and joint honours undergraduate programmes, research master’s programmes, and pre- and post-registration specialist programmes. He supervises doctoral students and sits on a number of interest panels and committees. Paul has worked on a number of research projects both as part of a team and as principal investigator. Paul has presented at international conferences and holds a number of awards. He is the author of several textbooks on nursing and health-related matters, one of which has been translated into Arabic and another into Japanese. Paul has an interest in values-based practice, and this is reflected in his work both as a clinician and as an academic.

• Chapter 1: Health promotion theoryChapter 2: Core skills for health promotionChapter 3: Making every contact count (MECC)Chapter 4: Health promotion with individualsChapter 5: Health promotion and the familyChapter 6: Health promotion at a community levelChapter 7: Health promotion at a population levelChapter 8: Promoting health in diverse and vulnerable populationsChapter 9: Health promotion and emergent technologiesChapter 10: Evaluating health promotionChapter 11: Promoting one′s own healthChapter 12: Future trends - challenges and opportunities in health promotion