Why informally employed Chinese women do not go to the doctor.

abstract：:Social determinants, or the conditions in which individuals are born, grow, live, work and age, can result in inequities in health and well-being. However, to-date little research has examined alcohol use and alcohol-related problems from an inequities and social determinants perspective. This study reviewed the evide...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Roche A,Kostadinov V,Fischer J,Nicholas R,O'Rourke K,Pidd K,Trifonoff A

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:Transnational corporations (TNCs) shape population health both positively and negatively through their national and international social, political and economic power and influence; and are a vital commercial determinant of health. Individual and group advocacy and activism in response to corporate products, practices...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Anaf J,Baum F,Fisher M,Friel S

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently studies have focused on how health promotion interventions sometimes sideline issues of social context, framing health as a matter of individual choice and, by implication, a personal responsibility. Part of this criticism is that health promotion interventions often do not draw on situated understandings of ...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Møller A,Merrild CH

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This randomized controlled study was performed to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational program entitled 'Capacity building for community leaders in a healthy living environment,' and to assess the usefulness of a participatory style of education and the applicability of an intersectoral approach in the educati...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Hien le TT,Takano T,Seino K,Ohnishi M,Nakamura K

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：:Overweight and obesity in children is rising at the global level, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Among the causes for this increase is the marketing of unhealthy food and beverage products, which affects children's food preferences, purchasing requests and consumption patterns. The need to address h...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Granheim SI,Vandevijvere S,Torheim LE

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：:Understanding how socio-economic processes inter-relate with young people's mental health is important to inform the development of responsive mental health promotion initiatives. Thirty diverse Canadian young people were engaged within a process of social praxis, underpinned by a historical-dialectical ontological pe...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Laliberte S,Varcoe C

更新日期：2020-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Community Health Promotion Indicator Development Model has been developed as the basis for establishing a European set of indicators for monitoring health promotion interventions. This paper offers the model more generally as a common frame of reference for broader public health practice and indicator dev...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Bauer G,Davies JK,Pelikan J

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In health promotion, enthusiasm for sustainability has frequently overshadowed critical reflection with regard to whether this aim is warranted, let alone feasible. Consequently, the not insubstantial body of literature on sustainability in health promotion is not particularly helpful to decision makers. In this paper...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Swerissen H,Crisp BR

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper was presented as a technical background paper at the WHO sixth Global Conference on Health Promotion in Bangkok Thailand, August 2005. It describes what we know about the effectiveness of four of the Ottawa Charter health promotion strategies from eight reviews that have been conducted since 1999. The six l...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Jackson SF,Perkins F,Khandor E,Cordwell L,Hamann S,Buasai S

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corazón Sano y Feliz is a hypertension management intervention developed to address deficiencies in the management of hypertensive patients in Guatemala. From 2007 to 2009, Corazón Sano y Feliz was pilot-tested in the community of Mixco. Corazón Sano y Feliz comprises a clinical risk assessment and treatment component...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Mendoza Montano C,Fort M,deRamirez M,Cruz J,Ramirez-Zea M

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：: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：:Given the rise in obesity rates in North America, concerns about obesity-related costs to the health care system are being stressed in both the popular media and the scientific literature. With such constant calls to action, care must be taken not to increase stigmatization of obese people, particularly of children. W...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： MacLean L,Edwards N,Garrard M,Sims-Jones N,Clinton K,Ashley L

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The obesity epidemic is a consequence of the interaction of cultural, environmental, genetic and behavioural factors; framing the issue is central to determining appropriate solutions. This study used content and thematic framing analysis to explore portrayal of responsibility for obesity in policy documents in Austra...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Patchett AD,Yeatman HR,Johnson KM

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：: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：:The Ottawa Charter both gave health promotion a solid framework and health promoters an identity. Yet, health promotion has far from reached its potential in being internalized in public health politics. Advocacy for health is one of the core missions for health promotion and the 25-year celebration of the Ottawa Char...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Pettersson B

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：: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：:An evaluation framework, called the Hong Kong Healthy Schools Award, has been developed to enable comprehensive collection and analysis of data reflecting the status of health-promoting schools (HPS) in Hong Kong. The key findings revealed a high prevalence of emotional problems, unhealthy eating habits, physical inac...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Lee A,St Leger L,Cheng FF,Hong Kong Healthy Schools Team.

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population health information interventions (PHIIs) use information in efforts to promote health. PHIIs may push information to a target audience (communication), pull information from the public (surveillance), or combine both in a bidirectional intervention. Although PHIIs have often been framed as non-invasive and ...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Greyson D,Knight R,Shoveller JA

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite a strong tradition in the literature on the patient information, education and involvement, there are few practical tools available to support hospitals in implementing such strategies. Based on the WHO Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services (HPH) Strategy, we developed a self-assessment tool for healt...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Groene O,Alonso J,Klazinga N

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：:Children in early adolescence and their mothers were studied to clarify the association between a child's sense of coherence (SOC) and its mother's SOC, the quality of family relationships as gauged by the mother, and the child's positive life experiences at home. An anonymous self-administered group questionnaire was...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Togari T,Sato M,Otemori R,Yonekura Y,Yokoyama Y,Kimura M,Tanaka W,Yamazaki Y

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 20 years ago an article about the use of drawings in higher education appeared in a medical journal. After that, other papers explored the possible contribution of drawings in adult education, while only very few in the field of health promotion and education. This article aims to introduce the use of drawin...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Garista P,Pocetta G,Lindström B

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Health Promoting School (HPS) and Comprehensive School Health Program (CSHP) initiatives have been proposed as a means of going beyond some of the limitations associated with health promotion initiatives aimed at school-aged children. This involves moving beyond practices that rely mainly on classroom-based health...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Deschesnes M,Martin C,Hill AJ

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study looked at whether rates of health promotion practices among restaurants and cafés in the Hunter Region of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, increased between 1997 and 2000. During the project period all restaurants and cafés in the region were offered an annual direct marketing telephone interview (1997, 19...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Licata M,Gillham K,Campbell E

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00