Edelman's Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span 11th Edition
by Carole Lium Edelman MSN GCNS-BC CMC, Elizabeth Connelly
Kudzma DNSc MPH WHNP-BC CNL ( 2025) || CURRENT EDITION
11th Edition
,table of contents
Unit 1: foundations for health promotion................................................................................................... 3
Chapter 01: health defined: health promotion, protection, and prevention ........................................... 3
Chapter 02: communities at risk and health........................................................................................... 15
Chapter 03: health policy and the delivery system ................................................................................ 30
Chapter 04: the therapeutic relationship ............................................................................................... 44
Chapter 05: ethical issues related to health promotion ......................................................................... 54
Unit 2: assessment for health promotion ................................................................................................. 75
Chapter 06: health promotion and the individual .................................................................................. 75
Chapter 07: health promotion and the family ...................................................................................... 102
Chapter 08: health promotion and the community ............................................................................. 114
Unit 3: interventions for health promotion .............................................................................................. 128
Chapter 09: screening and health promotion....................................................................................... 128
Chapter 10: health education ............................................................................................................... 142
Chapter 11: nutrition counseling for health promotion ....................................................................... 157
Chapter 12: physical activity ................................................................................................................. 188
Chapter 13: stress management ........................................................................................................... 202
Chapter 14: complementary, integrative, and alternative strategies .................................................. 215
Unit 4: application of health promotion ................................................................................................... 229
Chapter 15: overview of growth and development framework ........................................................... 229
Chapter 16: the childbearing period ..................................................................................................... 238
Chapter 17: infant ................................................................................................................................. 256
Chapter 18: toddler ............................................................................................................................... 274
Chapter 19: preschool child .................................................................................................................. 301
Chapter 20: school-age child................................................................................................................. 317
Chapter 21: adolescent ......................................................................................................................... 335
Chapter 22: young adult ....................................................................................................................... 349
Chapter 23: middle-age adult ............................................................................................................... 363
Chapter 24: older adult ......................................................................................................................... 377
Unit 5: emerging global health issues ....................................................................................................... 393
Chapter 25: 25. Health promotion for the 21st century: throughout the life span and throughout the
world ..................................................................................................................................................... 393
,Unit 1: foundations for health promotion
Chapter 01: health defined: health promotion, protection, and prevention
Edelman: health promotion throughout the life span, 11th edition
Multiple choice
1. Which model of health is most likely used by a person who does not believe in preventive health
care?
A. Clinical model
B. Role performance model
C. Adaptive model
D. Eudemonistic model
Answer: a
The clinical model of health views the absence of signs and symptoms of disease as indicative of health.
People who use this model wait until they are very sick to seek care.
Dif: cognitive level: remember (knowledge)
Ref: p. 3
2. A person with chronic back pain is cared for by her primary care provider as well as
receivesacupuncture. Which model of health does this person likely favor?
A. Clinical model
B. Role performance model
C. Adaptive model
D. Eudaimonistic model
Answer: d
The eudaimonistic model embodies the interaction and interrelationships among physical, social,
psychological, and spiritual aspects of life and the environment in goal attainment and creating meaning
in life. Practitioners who practice the clinical model may not be enough for someone who believes in the
eudaimonistic model. Thosewho believ e in the eudaimonistic model often look for alternative providers
of care.
, Dif: cognitive level: apply (application) ref: p. 3
3. A state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person‘s potential and
isexperienced within a developmental context is known as:
A. Growth and development.
B. Health.
C. Functioning.
D. High-level wellness.
Answer: b
Health is defined as a state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person‘s
potential and is experienced within a developmental context.
Dif: cognitive level: remember (knowledge) ref: p. 5
4. Which of the following best describes a client who has an illness?
A. Someone who has well-controlled diabetes
B. Someone with hypercholesterolemia
C. Someone with a headache
D. Someone with coronary artery disease without angina
E. Answer: c
Someone with a headache represents a person with an illness. An illness is made up of the subjective
experience of the individual and the physical manifestation of disease. It can be described as a response
characterized by a mismatch between a person‘s needs and the resources available to meet those
needs. A person can have a diseasewithout feeling ill. The other choices represent disease.
Dif: cognitive level: analyze (analysis) ref: p. 6
5. Which us report is considered a landmark document in creating a global approach to health?
A. The 1990 health objectives for the nation: a midcourse review