Evidence-based health promotion / edited by Elizabeth R. Perkins, Ina Simnett and Linda Wright.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Creative tensions in evidence-based practice. pt. 1. Recent theories and new approaches to practice : Role of theories in health promotion practice -- Evidence : Current approaches to gathering evidence ; Challenge of evidence-based practice ; Improving mental health in women with breast cancer ; Parenting support groups -- Work with individuals : Stage-based approach to behaviour change ; Transtheoretical model: profiling smoking in pregnancy -- Training and education : Training needs analysis (TNA) ; Primary care nursing: a TNA case study ; National occupational standards for health promotion and care ; Making use of competencies -- Organisations and social systems : Social system intervention ; Applying the evidence to workplace catering ; Workplace stress survey. pt. 2. Evidence-based work in settings : Evidence base of work in settings -- Working in school settings : Rationale of work in school settings ; Working in primary school settings ; Sex and relationships education in the secondary school ; Drug and alcohol education -- Working in informal settings : Informal education and health promotion ; Detached youth work -- Working within the criminal justice system : Health promotion with offenders ; HIV prevention work within prisons -- Working in hospital and community settings : Working in hospital ; Child accident prevention ; Breast health awareness. pt. 3. Gathering, assessing and using evidence : Doing things right -- Evidence into practice : How to survive literatrure searches ; Integrating research into nursing practice ; From evidence to action using health behaviour surveys -- Health promotion needs assessment : Approaches to needs assessment ; Lifestyle surveys ; Bottom-up approach to family health needs assessment -- Using qualitative studies : Qualitative studies in health promotion -- Monitoring and evaluating progress : Monitoring and evaluation in cardiac rehabilitation ; Get moving! study ; Evaluation in health promotion: the proof of the pudding?

The authors offer practical guidance on assessing existing evidence, collecting new evidence and finding relevant solutions when there is no evidence in the field of health promotion. The book is unique in dealing with Evidence-based Health Promotion.