For nearly 20 years, An Occupational Perspective of Health has been a valuable text for health practitioners with an interest in the impact of what people do throughout their lives. Now available in an updated and much-anticipated Third Edition, this unique text continues the intention of the original publication: it encourages wide-ranging recognition of occupation as a major contributor to all peoples experience of health or illness. It also promotes understanding of how, throughout the world, population health as well as individual well-being is dependent on occupation.An Occupational Perspective of Health, Third Edition by Drs. Ann Wilcock and Clare Hocking, in line with directives from the World Health Organization (WHO), encourages practitioners of public health, occupational therapy and others to extend current thinking and practice and embrace a holistic view of how occupation and health interact.Addressed in the Third Edition: An explanation of how individual and population health throughout the world is impacted by all that people do A drawing together of WHO ideas that relate to health through occupation, and how people individually and collectively feel about, relate to others, and grow or diminish through what they do A multidisciplinary orientation to promote health and reduce illness by increasing awareness and understanding of the impact of occupations across sleep-wake continuums throughout lifespans and communitiesThe connection of health and occupation is held to be fundamental, although ideas about both have altered throughout time as environments and cultures have evolved. To improve interdisciplinary understanding, An Occupational Perspective of Health, Third Edition explains the concepts of attaining, maintaining, or reclaiming population health through occupation.Instructors in educational settings can visit www.efacultylounge.com for additional materials to be used for teaching in the classroom.Practitioners and students of occupational therapy, health sciences, and public or population health will benefit from and relate to An Occupational Perspective of Health, Third Edition.
About the Authors Preface Introduction Section I Health and Illness Chapter 1 Defining Health Chapter 2 Evolution of Health Beliefs Chapter 3 Dominant Concepts and Contemporary Priorities Section II Occupation Chapter 4 An Occupational Theory of Human Nature Chapter 5 Defining Occupation in Relation to Health Chapter 6 Occupation: Doing, Health, and Illness Chapter 7 Occupation: Being Aspects of Doing Chapter 8 Occupation: Belonging Through Doing Chapter 9 Occupation: Becoming Through Doing Section III Occupation in Illness and Health Chapter 10 Disorders of Occupation Chapter 11 Occupation as a Dynamic in Health and Illness Chapter 12 Occupation as an Agent of Population Health Section IV Occupational Perspectives of Health Chapter 13 Occupation, Environment, and Community Development Chapter 14 An Occupational Justice Perspective of Health Chapter 15 Occupation in Illness Prevention Chapter 16 Occupation, Health, and Well-Being Index
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