Evaluation of a pilot hypertension management programme for Guatemalan adults.

abstract：:Although the internet increases the availability of diabetes-related health information, health care consumers need to have different skills in order to obtain, interpret and evaluate such information. The eHealth literacy scale (eHEALS) was originally developed to assess consumers' perceived skills at using informati...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Aponte J,Nokes KM

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：:The aim of the study was to investigate possible effects of a total smoke-ban in Norwegian bars and restaurants (introduced on June 1st 2004) on employees' job satisfaction. A national representative sample was randomly selected from the public registry of all companies in the hospitality business. A baseline survey w...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Hetland J,Hetland H,Mykletun RJ,Aarø LE,Matthiesen SB

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：: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：:The goal of the study is to investigate possible predictors of positive mental health, and whether they differ across sexual identity adult groups. Using data from the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey on Mental Health, multivariate analyses were conducted, including interaction terms, to assess the effects of sex...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Peter T

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Indigenous people experience poorer cancer survival outcomes compared with non-Indigenous people. Currently, there is growing awareness of poor health literacy as a determinant of cancer outcomes. However, little attention has been given to researching cancer-related health literacy amongst Indigenous people...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Thewes B,McCaffery K,Davis E,Garvey G

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article-third in a series of three-uses theoretical frameworks described in Part 1, and empirical markers reported in Part 2, to present evidence on how power dynamics shifted during the early years of a major English community empowerment initiative. We demonstrate how the capabilities disadvantaged communities ...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Powell K,Barnes A,Anderson de Cuevas R,Bambra C,Halliday E,Lewis S,McGill R,Orton L,Ponsford R,Salway S,Townsend A,Whitehead M,Popay J

更新日期：2020-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:When predicting volunteer intention, much attention is paid to the volunteer organization environment (VOE). Given that self-efficacy and motivation have emerged as important predictors of volunteer intention, we adopted a combination of ideas of Bandura's social cognitive theory and Ajzen's theory of planned behavior...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Wang JW,Wei CN,Harada K,Minamoto K,Ueda K,Cui HW,Zhang CG,Cui ZT,Ueda A

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of the study were to identify the professional issues that teachers perceived as important in their commitment to a health promotion (HP) programme launched in their schools and to understand their perceptions of the impact of the programme on themselves as professionals, individuals, on students, on sc...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Jourdan D,Stirling J,Mannix McNamara P,Pommier J

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:Tai Chi has been widely practiced as a Chinese martial art that focuses on slow sequential movements, providing a smooth, continuous and low intensity activity. It has been promoted to improve balance and strength and to reduce falls in the elderly, especially those 'at risk'. The potential benefits in healthy younger...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Thornton EW,Sykes KS,Tang WK

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental tobacco smoke exposure is an important health risk for small children. The development, spread and evaluation of a national child health-centre-based counselling method targeting environmental tobacco smoke is described. The work progressed in six steps. In a first step, accomplished in 1994, it was foun...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Arborelius E,Bremberg S

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of 'health promoting schools' has been embraced internationally as an effective way of promoting the health of children, adolescents, and the wider school community. It is only recently that attempts have been made to evaluate health promoting schools. This paper reviews evaluations of health promoting sch...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Mũkoma W,Flisher AJ

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of physical activity is low in the Sultanate of Oman. The built environment is a key barrier to physical activity in the region. Our aim is to examine urban planners' perceptions of the relevance and feasibility of the proposed urban planning and design interventions in the draft WHO technical package o...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Mabry RM,Al Siyabi H,Kannan M,Al Siyabi A

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：:Obesity in young people is a major public health concern. Energy balance, the interrelationship between diet and physical activity, is known to be a key determinant. Evidence supports the development of school-based approaches to obesity prevention. ASSIST (A Stop Smoking in Schools Trial) is an effective school-based...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Bell SL,Audrey S,Cooper AR,Noble S,Campbell R

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The idea that the Holocene is over and a new human-dominated geological epoch, the Anthropocene, is in progress has been widely discussed. The article aims to outline the published definitions and current patterns on the Anthropocene, highlighting an agenda of emerging risks, challenges and possibilities for the healt...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Moysés SJ,Soares RC

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:In Australia, significant resources have been invested in producing health promotion best practice guidelines, frameworks and tools (herein referred to as health promotion tools) as a strategy to improve Indigenous health promotion programmes. Yet, there has been very little rigorous implementation research ...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Percival NA,McCalman J,Armit C,O'Donoghue L,Bainbridge R,Rowley K,Doyle J,Tsey K

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A range of digitized health promotion practices have emerged in the digital era. Some of these practices are voluntarily undertaken by people who are interested in improving their health and fitness, but many others are employed in the interests of organizations and agencies. This article provides a critical commentar...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Lupton D

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health promotion (HP) is a relatively recent field that stems from, notably, public health, sociology, political science, psychology and education. This multidisciplinarity has contributed to HP's challenged institutionalization. Scholars have so far predominately explored HP's multidisciplinarity using anecdotal appr...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Gagné T,Lapalme J,McQueen DV

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Education and literacy are important aspects of health promotion. The potential for health literacy to promote healthier choices has been widely examined, with studies variously incorporating food literacy, nutrition literacy and/or media literacy as components of health literacy, rather than treating each as unique c...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Truman E,Bischoff M,Elliott C

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：: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：: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：:The field of health promotion has arguably shifted over the past thirty years from being socially proactive to biomedically defensive. In many countries this has been accompanied by a gradual decline, or in some cases the almost complete removal of health promotion designated positions within Government health departm...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： O'Hara L,Taylor J,Barnes M

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite socio-economic, demographic and epidemiological facts and realities that point to a potential risk for explosion in the prevalence of childhood mental health problems in sub-Saharan Africa, there is still a severe dearth of child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) policy or strategy to respond to the situatio...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Atilola O

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：:With the rise of digital technologies, electronic learning and communication tools are becoming a firm part of academia to promote knowledge of health sciences. This study sought to analyse the attitude of students regarding social media and digital learning for study purposes in sport and exercise science. A survey w...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Rigamonti L,Dolci A,Galetta F,Stefanelli C,Hughes M,Bartsch M,Seidelmeier I,Bonaventura K,Back DA

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the process and key recommendations derived from conducting a rapid participatory asset-focused health and social needs assessment in the small traditional rural village of Tulikup, Bali. The assessment aimed to develop recommendations for a community radio station based in Tulikup to promote soci...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Pepall E,Earnest J,James R

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00