INTRODUCTIONS & OVERVIEWS

Learning About Wellness (Definitions, Dimensions, Self-test, Making Changes) - www.sunysb.edu/stuaff/wellness/

Talking About Health and Wellness with Patients: Integrating Health Promotion and Disease Prevention into Your Practice (book), Steven Jonas, MD, MPH

(The following excerpts are reprinted with the kind permission of the author and the Springer Publishing Company)

• CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION
  
  
  • I. What's It All About?
    
    
  • II. What This Book Is About
    
    
  • III. The Organization of This Book
    
    
  • IV. The Ten Central Concepts of Health Promotion/Disease Prevention
    
    
• CHAPTER 2 - WHAT ARE HEALTH AND WELLNESS?
  
  
  • I. Definitions of Health
    
    
    • A. Different Uses of the Term
      
      
    • B. The Greek View
      
      
    • C. The Modern Western View
      
      
    • D. Some Non-Western Approaches
      
      
    • E. Approaching a Comprehensive Definition
      
      
  • II. The Purpose of Being Healthy
    
    
  • III. Definitions of Disease and Illness
    
    
  • IV. Some Social Factors in Health and Illness
    
    
  • V. Definitions and Descriptions of Wellness
    
    
  • VI. Getting on the Wellness Road
    
    
  • References

Health Promotion Glossary, Don Nutbeam, WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia - www.who/hpr/hep/98.1

DIRECTORIES & DATABASES

Annotated Bibliography of Selected Health Promotion Titles, Centre for Health Promotion,
University of Toronto – www.utoronto.ca/chp/who/hpbib.htm

Health Promotion and Education, CHID: Combined Health Information Database – www.chid.nih.gov/subfile/contribs/he.html

Resources for Health Promotion (manual), Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto – www.utoronto.ca/bestp.html