This open access book offers an overview of the beautiful, powerful, and dynamic array of opportunities to promote health through the arts from theoretical, methodological, pedagogical, and critical perspectives. This is the first-known text to connect the disparate inter-disciplinary literatures into a coherent volume for health promotion practitioners, researchers, and teachers. It provides a one-stop depository for using the arts as tools for health promotion in many settings and as bridges across communities, cultures, and sectors. 

The diverse applications of the arts in health promotion transcend the multiple contexts within which health is created, i.e., individual, community, and societal levels, and has a number of potential health, aesthetic, and social outcomes. Topics covered within the chapters include:

• Exploring the Potential of the Arts to Promote Health and Social Justice
• Drawing as a Salutogenic Therapy Aid for Grieving Adolescents in Botswana
• Community Theater for Health Promotion in Japan
• From Arts to Action: Project SHINE as a Case Study of Engaging Youth in Efforts to Develop Sustainable Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Strategies in Rural Tanzania and India
• Movimiento Ventana: An Alternative Proposal to Mental Health in Nicaragua
• Using Art to Bridge Research and Policy: An Initiative of the United States National Academy of Medicine

Arts and Health Promotion is an innovative and engaging resource for a broad audience including practitioners, researchers, university instructors, and artists. It is an important text for undergraduate- and graduate-level courses, particularly in program planning, research methods (especially qualitative methodology), community health, and applied art classes. The book also is useful for professional development among current health promotion practitioners, community nurses, community psychologists, public health professionals, and social workers.

Part 1 . Introduction

Chapter 1 .  Exploring the Potential of the Arts to Promote Health and Social Justice
Part 2. Arts and Health Promotion: Tools and Bridges for Practice
Chapter 2. Drawing as a Salutogenic Therapy Aid for Grieving Adolescents in Botswana
Chapter 3. Promoting Spiritual Health: Using Poetry as a Coping Strategy for Iranian
Chapter 4. Student Creativity and Professional Artwork in a School Food Intervention in Denmark
Chapter 5. Creatively Healthy: Art in a Home Care Setting in Scotland
Chapter 6. CuidarNos: Art and Social Work to Address Trauma among Gender-Based Violence Advocates After Hurricane María in Puerto Rico
Chapter 7. Community Theater for Health Promotion in Japan
Part 3. Arts and Health Promotion: Tools and Bridges for Research
Chapter 8. Lights, Camera, (Youth Participatory) Action! Lessons from Filming a Documentary with Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Youth in the USA
Chapter 9. From Arts to Action: Project SHINE as a Case Study of Engaging Youth in Efforts to Develop Sustainable Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Strategies in Rural Tanzania and India
Chapter 10. Photovoice for Health Promotion Research, Empowerment, and Advocacy: Young Refugee Stories from Turkey
Chapter 11.  Reframing Health Promotion Research and Practice in Australia and the Pacific: The Value of Arts-Based Practices
Chapter 12. A Kaleidoscope of Words and Senses to (Re)Think the Chagas Problem: Experiences in Argentina and Brazil
Chapter 13. Mapping the Discourse on the Health-Promoting Impacts of Community Arts
Part 4. Arts and Health Promotion: Tools and Bridges for Social Transformation
Chapter 14. Art and Co-Creation for the Community Promotion of Affective Sexual Health in Catalonia
Chapter 15. ArtScience for Health Awareness in Brazil
Chapter 16. The Western Australian Indigenous Storybook Spins Special Yarns
Chapter 17. Silent Silhouettes: A Living Reminder of the Urgent Action Needed to End Gender-Based Violence in Trinidad and Tobago
Chapter 18. Movimiento Ventana: An Alternative Proposal to Mental Health in Nicaragua
Chapter 19. Using Art to Bridge Research and Policy: An Initiative of the United States National Academy of Medicine
Chapter 20. Art and Innovation at International Health Promotion Conferences
Part 5. Conclusion
Chapter 21. Arts, Health Promotion, and Social Justice: Synergy in Motion.