Evaluation of the participation of Aretaieion Hospital, Greece in the WHO Pilot Project of Health Promoting Hospitals.

abstract：:Unhealthy lifestyle behaviors, namely poor diet and inadequate physical activity, significantly contribute to poor health and obesity risk, which in turn impact chronic illness outcomes. A possible approach to improving these health behaviors and subsequent outcomes is to capitalize on the theorized link between socia...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Emley EA,Musher-Eizenman DR

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study attempts to develop and verify the effectiveness of a health promotion program for office workers based on the social ecological model and the World Health Organization's Healthy Workplace Framework. This study involved 272 office workers of a small and medium-sized enterprise in Korea. Data were analyzed t...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Ryu H,Jung J,Moon J

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While there is a recognized link between high levels of exposure to advertising of unhealthy foods and overweight and obesity among children, there is little research on the extent to which these exposures include persuasive marketing techniques. This study aimed to measure children's exposure to the use of persuasive...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Kelly B,Hattersley L,King L,Flood V

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Summary:The Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) formulated recommendations along which health inequalities can be successfully tackled anywhere in the world. The situation of the Roma minority in Europe provides countless opportunities for the translation of these guidelines into action that should be gu...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Kósa K,Coons B,Molnár Á

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The World Health Organization (WHO) has been a strong and persistent voice calling for the recognition of the role of health in development and of the impact of socio-economic development on health. Health impact assessment (HIA) is one mechanism that can be used to achieve this goal. The objective of this paper is to...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Ison E

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term 'culturally sensitive' is often used to describe interventions adapted for minority ethnic communities. However, understanding of strategies for adapting behavioural interventions for such communities is limited. The questions addressed in this paper are: What are the main strategies for adapting intervention...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Netto G,Bhopal R,Lederle N,Khatoon J,Jackson A

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports preliminary research results on a professional development (PD) model as a mechanism for supporting absorption of the Healthy School (HS) approach into school functioning. The purpose of our study was to document the model implementation process and understand whether it influenced, or not, the ac...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Deschesnes M,Tessier C,Couturier Y,Martin C

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Informal employment, in which workers have no security of employment and receive few or no health insurance benefits, has risen sharply in urban China in the last decade. The percentage of women in informal employment in China is higher than in the formal employment sector; 'feminization' has thus become a key feature...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Liu C,Bryson SA

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine whether a public health project to reduce problem behavior in schools and improve the classroom climate, undertaken among eight secondary schools in a municipality in Sweden, was accompanied by favorable changes in the school environment over time. Data were collected from ninth grade students (aged 15-16 y...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Persson L,Hagquist C

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Mental health promotion programs (MHP) seek to reduce sub-syndromal symptoms of mental distress and enhance positive mental health. This study evaluates the long-term effects of a mindfulness-based MHP program ('Life Balance') provided by health coaches in a multi-site field setting on mental distress, satisfaction wi...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Lyssenko L,Müller G,Kleindienst N,Schmahl C,Berger M,Eifert G,Kölle A,Nesch S,Ommer-Hohl J,Wenner M,Bohus M

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence shows that regular physical activity is enhanced by supporting environment. Studies are needed to integrate research evidence into health enhancing, cross-sector physical activity (HEPA) policy making. This article presents the rationale, study design, measurement procedures and the initial results of the fir...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Aro AR,Bertram M,Hämäläinen RM,Van De Goor I,Skovgaard T,Valente A,Castellani T,Chereches R,Edwards N,REPOPA Consortium.

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:These reflections from a Child Public Health perspective underline the dramatic changes in children's conditions in Europe over this last century, including a considerable improvement in health. However, we still face problems, disturbing facts and alarming signs. There are important gaps in our knowledge about essent...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Köhler L

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to compare cardiovascular risk factors of working-aged people in Chinese and Finnish rural villages. The surveys were carried out in 1989 in Tianjin, China, and in Kuopio, Finland. Altogether, 897 Chinese inhabitants and 795 Finnish subjects participated in the surveys. Health behaviours were...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Hu G,Pekkarinen H,Halonen P,Hänninen O,Tian H,Guo Z,Kumpusalo E

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Engaging in physical activity (PA) on a regular and adequate basis generates considerable benefits for health. In developed countries, the time spent doing PA is decreasing, whilst sedentary time (ST) is increasing. A multicomponent school-based intervention programme, called 'Sigue la Huella' (Follow the Footprint), ...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Murillo Pardo B,Julián Clemente JA,García González L,García Bengoechea E,Generelo Lanaspa E

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical inactivity is common in older people and contributes to morbidity and mortality. Health literacy might play a role in motivating people to become or stay physically active. However, little is known about the influence of health literacy on physical activity in older people. This review aims to determine the a...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Lim ML,van Schooten KS,Radford KA,Delbaere K

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lifecourse epidemiology suggests that preconception is a valuable opportunity for health promotion with young women. Yet young women are less likely than older women to be research participants, limiting evidence about their needs and risks. Marketing data indicate that young adults are not engaged with one advertisin...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Howcutt SJ,Barbosa-Bouças S,Brett J,Barnett AL,Smith LA

更新日期：2020-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 1.5 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes every year, and the majority of them go online to learn about their condition. Unfortunately, the online diabetes landscape is crowded, and the quality of website content is unknown-guidance for patients and healthcare providers regarding online diabetes informati...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Holtz BE

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Engaging men in mental health promotion can be difficult because of reticence about help-seeking, especially for gender neutral programmes. Developments in men's health research has pointed to the success of gender-sensitized programmes to increase men's engagement in healthy lifestyle interventions targeting physical...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Sharp P,Stolp S,Bottorff JL,Oliffe JL,Hunt K,Caperchione CM

更新日期：2020-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Since Margaret Thatcher reached power in the United Kingdom, European governments have increasingly turned to neoliberal forms of policy-making, focusing, especially after the 2008 Great Recession on 'austerity policies' rather than investing in social protection policies. We applied a multiple explanatory case studie...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： O'Campo P,Freiler A,Muntaner C,Gelormino E,Huegaerts K,Puig-Barrachina V,Mitchell C

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2003, the German Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA) initiated the national Cooperation-Network (CN) 'Equity in Health'. The CN is constantly increasing in size and scope, supporting setting approaches aimed at reducing health inequalities. A detailed description of the CN has not yet been available in Engli...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Mielck A,Kilian H,Lehmann F,Richter-Kornweitz A,Kaba-Schönstein L

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'healthy city' concept has only recently been adopted in developing countries. From 1995 to 1999, the World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, supported healthy city projects (HCPs) in Cox's Bazar (Bangladesh), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Fayoum (Egypt), Managua (Nicaragua) and Quetta (Pakistan). The authors evaluat...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Harpham T,Burton S,Blue I

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescents in Panama face multiple barriers that affect their health, such as high rates of teenage pregnancy, increased human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections and sexual violence. Equal relationships between women and men are likely to reduce such risks. Here, we suggest that the school-based enhancement of S...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Araúz Ledezma AB,Massar K,Kok G

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the factors that have enabled the Healthy Cities Noarlunga (HCN) initiative to be sustainable over 18 years (1987-2005). Sustainability related to the ability of the initiative to continue to operate continuously in a manner that indicated its existence was accorded value by the community and local...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Baum F,Jolley G,Hicks R,Saint K,Parker S

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper studied the sustainability of China's New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NCMS) by evaluating the satisfaction rate of its participants-the farmers. The study related the overall satisfaction of the farmers to their satisfaction with the four different aspects of the program. It also identified which pers...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Chen D,Tang KK,Zhao L,Zhang Y

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schools are seen as important contributors to obesity prevention, yet face barriers in fulfilling this function. This qualitative study investigates headteacher views on the primary school role in preventing obesity. Semi-structured interviews were held with 22 headteachers from ethnically and socio-economically diver...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Clarke JL,Pallan MJ,Lancashire ER,Adab P

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social enterprises-businesses that work for social benefit rather than for the maximization of financial returns to shareholders or owners-could potentially prove to be an innovative and sustainable way of tackling 'upstream' social determinants of health. However, empirical work focusing upon how, and to what extent,...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Macaulay B,Roy MJ,Donaldson C,Teasdale S,Kay A

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reducing children's exposure to unhealthy food advertising is an accepted strategy to end childhood obesity. This study aimed to (i) measure children's space-time exposures to unhealthy food advertising in public outdoor spaces, using GPS and wearable cameras; and (ii) test effectiveness of banning options. We compile...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Liu W,Barr M,Pearson AL,Chambers T,Pfeiffer KA,Smith M,Signal L

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the methodology, programme logic and conceptual framework that drove the evaluation of the Fifth Phase of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network. Towards the end of the phase, 99 cities were designated progressively through the life of the phase (2009-14). The paper establishes the values, systems...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： de Leeuw E,Green G,Dyakova M,Spanswick L,Palmer N

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation of health interventions has garnered international support across academic disciplines and among various health organizations. Through semi-structured interviews, we sought to explore and understand the perspectives of 26 health researchers and promoters located in the USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand and No...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Liu JJ,Davidson E,Bhopal R,White M,Johnson M,Netto G,Sheikh A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective implementation of the WHO international Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is the key to controlling the tobacco epidemic. Within countries, strong national tobacco control capacity is the primary determinant for successful implementation of the FCTC. This case study of tobacco control policy des...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Stillman FA,David AM,Kibria N,Phan HT

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00