title: Implementing evidence-based health promotion strategies.
abstract: This article describes two modifiable risk factors contributing to chronic disease in Scotland: excessive alcohol consumption and physical inactivity, and discusses evidence-based health promotion measures to address these factors. It illustrates examples of medical, behaviour change, education, client-centred and societal change approaches to health promotion. The article emphasises the need for nurses to engage in a wide range of approaches to health promotion and not merely to rely on telling patients what to do.
authors.affiliation: University of the West of Scotland, Hamilton. karen.morton76@yahoo.co.uk
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Morton
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D009043:Motor Activity; D012606:Scotland