Health Promotion Programs introduces the theory of healthpromotion and presents an overview of current best practices from awide variety of settings that include schools, health careorganizations, workplace, and community. The 43 contributors toHealth Promotion Programs focus on students and professionalsinterested in planning, implementing, and evaluating programs thatpromote health equity. In addition to the focus on best practices,each chapter contains information on:* Identifying health promotion programs* Eliminating health disparities* Defining and applying health promotion theories and models* Assessing the needs of program participants* Creating and supporting evidence-based programs* Implementing health promotion programs: Tools, program staff,and budgets* Advocacy* Communicating health information effectively* Developing and increasing program funding* Evaluating, improving, and sustaining health promotionprograms* Health promotion challenges and opportunities* Health promotion resources and career links"The authors have clearly connected the dots among planning,theory, evaluation, health disparity, and advocacy, and havecreated a user-friendly toolbox for health promotionempowerment."--Ronald L. Braithwaite, PhD, professor, MorehouseSchool of Medicine, Departments of Community Health and PreventiveMedicine, Family Medicine, and Psychiatry"The most comprehensive program planning text to date, this bookexamines all facets of planning and implementation across four keywork environments where health educators function."--MalGoldsmith, PhD, CHES, professor and coordinator of HealthEducation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville"Health Promotion Programs . . . . explores the thinking of someof our field's leaders and confirms its well-deserved place in thefield and in our personal collections."--Susan M. Radius, PhD,CHES, professor and program director, Health Science Department,Towson University