Health Promotion in Health Care – Vital Theories and Research - Open Textbook Library
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This open textbook reveals how health promotion in clinical settings is built on competing theories of behavior change — and why the model a clinician chooses quietly determines patient outcomes.
SalutogenesisSelf-Determination TheoryHealth Belief ModelBehavior Change Theory
Theory Briefing
- Published by NTNU researchers, the textbook maps the vital theories driving health promotion practice in real clinical care settings.
- It bridges behavioral science and medicine, showing how frameworks like salutogenesis and self-determination theory shape patient interventions.
- As an open-access resource, it challenges the knowledge-gatekeeping norm — democratizing theory-based health promotion for practitioners worldwide.