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：:Facilitating community action is a key goal of health promotion. This paper describes a public health advocacy framework. It then presents a case study of its application for planning community action by a community alliance concerned about increased heavy traffic on roads through a small regional city in the South We...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Gomm M,Lincoln P,Pikora T,Giles-Corti B

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The '5As' model of behavior change provides a sequence of evidence-based clinician and office practice behaviors (Assess, Advise, Agree, Assist, Arrange) that can be applied in primary care settings to address a broad range of behaviors and health conditions. Although the 5As approach is becoming more widely adopted a...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Glasgow RE,Emont S,Miller DC

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：:The purpose of the study was to determine the utility of general population health surveillance data for evaluating broad policy changes that relate to health promotion. Data were drawn from the United States (US) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) for one US state, California. Because these data are c...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Campostrini S,Holtzman D,McQueen DV,Boaretto E

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Being overweight or obese is a major risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes but weight loss through lifestyle interventions can markedly reduce its incidence. The Internet provides an opportunity for the development and implementation of lifestyle intervention programs that promote self-managed behavioural change....

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： McCoy MR,Couch D,Duncan ND,Lynch GS

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper highlights the importance of understanding management theories to development of the settings approach to health promotion. It then provides an overview of two areas of especial pertinence: organization development and systems thinking. This is followed by the articulation of the Healthy Living and Working ...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Paton K,Sengupta S,Hassan L

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescents obtain cigarettes from both commercial and social sources. While the relationship between commercial access and adolescent smoking has been researched, no one has considered in detail whether rates of peer smoking affect cigarette availability. In two relatively deprived Scottish schools that differed in t...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Turner KM,Gordon J,Young R

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aretaieion University Hospital participated in the World Health Organization (WHO) Pilot Health Promoting Hospitals Project from 1993 until 1997, when the Hellenic Network of Health Promoting Hospitals was established. This study is an overall evaluation of the participation of Aretaieion Hospital at the HPH Pilot Pro...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Tountas Y,Pavi E,Tsamandouraki K,Arkadopoulos N,Triantafyllou D

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：:A survey of students' smoking in China (n = 1896), comparing medical students with college students in non-medical majors, was carried out to determine whether a medical education has a preventive effect on smoking uptake. The survey, sampling students from 12 universities in three cities, found no significant differe...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Zhu T,Feng B,Wong S,Choi W,Zhu SH

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：: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 describes the development, implementation and evaluation of a school- and family-based intervention to prevent obesity in children aged 5-7 years. In addition, the efficacy of three different intervention programmes was compared. Children aged 5-7 years (n=213) were recruited from three primary schools in O...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Warren JM,Henry CJ,Lightowler HJ,Bradshaw SM,Perwaiz S

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：:An evaluability assessment was conducted to plan a community-based, multi-strategy approach to physical activity promotion (MSAPAP) to maximize young children's physical activity in an ethno-racially and socio-economically diverse city. This assessment involved consultation with various stakeholders to develop a progr...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Dwyer JJ,Hansen B,Barrera M,Allison K,Ceolin-Celestini S,Koenig D,Young D,Good M,Rees T

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A team of researchers, including one behavioral scientist (S.M.N.) and three epidemiologists (L.Q., O.S. and S.N.) conducted community analyses to assess the social and cultural factors that affect the detection and reporting of disease cases in a surveillance system, using acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance i...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Ndiaye SM,Quick L,Sanda O,Niandou S

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concern at widening health and wealth inequities between communities accompanying processes of globalization in recent years are reflected in contemporary definitions of health promotion, premised on the stratagem of individuals and communities increasing control over factors that determine health, thereby improving t...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Williams L,Labonte R,O'Brien M

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes is the most common type of diabetes, with a prevalence of at least 4% in Sweden. Aiming at primary prevention of the disease, the Stockholm Diabetes Prevention Program (SDPP) was developed as a joint program between the Departments of Endocrinology, Social Medicine and Epidemiology at the Karolinska In...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Andersson CM,Bjärås GE,Ostenson CG

更新日期：2002-12-01 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

abstract：:Population health as developed by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR) has influenced the shape and direction of Canadian public health policy, and has the potential to do so in the USA and elsewhere. There is reason to be concerned about this ascendence of CIAR thinking: population health is rooted wit...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Raphael D,Bryant T

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seeking achievement of health equity has underpinned national government and global health policies for decades. However, major difficulties and challenges faced in the practice of achieving 'Health for All' has led to a recognition of the need to broaden the focus of efforts to improve health equity. Civil society gr...

journal_title：Health promotion international

authors： Nathan S,Rotem A,Ritchie J

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：: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 '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