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Health education and health promotion

2004
This book is a comprehensive resource for theory, research and action in health education and health promotion. The authors describe strategies and actions for health education and health promotion based on theories for understanding, predicting and changing behavioural, social and environmental determinants of health. The book also offers a conceptual
Koelen, M.A., van den Ban, A.W.
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Environmental Health Promotion: Bridging Traditional Environmental Health and Health Promotion

Health Education & Behavior, 2004
This article highlights the juncture between environmental health and health promotion and underscores the need for health promotion involvement in environmental health practice. It begins with a synopsis of current issues in environmental public health and deficiencies in environmental public health practice that could be partly ameliorated by an ...
Elizabeth H, Howze, Grant T, Baldwin, Michelle C, Kegler   +2 more
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Advances in health promotion in Africa: promoting health through hospitals

Global Health Promotion, 2010
A district hospital in a rural area of the Limpopo Province in South Africa has recently been launched as a ‘Health Promoting Hospital’, based on the principles of the Ottawa Charter and according to standards developed by WHO-Europe. The initiative was conceived as a project in partnership with stakeholders from the local community and is considered a
Delobelle, Peter, Onya, H, Langa, C., Mashamba, J., Depoorter, Anne-Marie   +4 more
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Health, health promotion and the elderly

Journal of Clinical Nursing, 1996
Summary Health promotion is a mode of practice which is being increasingly examined by policymakers (DHSS, 1987; DoH, 1992). Although practitioners are being required to screen people over 75 years of age and are exhorted to reduce accidents in the elderly by 33% between 1990 and 2005 (DoH, 1992), there is evidence that they do not value this sort of ...
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Health Promotion in Occupational Health

Methods of Information in Medicine, 2005
Summary Objectives: To describe a Swedish approach to occupational health and its implications for health promotion. Methods: We start business with a new customer by creating a health policy for the whole company.
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Health Promotion in the Workplace

Journal of Public Health Policy, 1985
r k j CCUPATIONAL health is a contentious field. Significant economic and political interests are at stake. No ? O ^ {other public health issue carries with it the volatile history that workplace health and safety do, both at the negotiating table and on the Senate and House floors.
C, Levenstein, M, Moret
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Health, Happiness and Health Promotion

Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2005
This article claims that health promotion is best practiced in the light of an Aristotelian conception of the good life for humans and of the place of health within it.
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Don’t use the term ‘health promotion’ to promote health

British Journal of Nursing, 2007
Someone from the World Health Organization once told me that if nurses want to help people with their health, they should never use the term health promotion. I have never forgotten this piece of advice and have seen many nurses fail to get their message across.
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Promoting a Consumer Orientation to Health Care and Health Promotion

Journal of Health Psychology, 1996
There is a compelling need to establish a consumer orientation to health care to address the troubling imbalance of power between providers and consumers in the modem health-care system. This power imbalance has systematically disenfranchised and marginalized health-care consumers. Adoption of a consumer orientation that focuses institutional attention
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Health promotion in Brazil

Promotion & Education, 2007
The evolution of health promotion within the Brazilian health system is examined, including an assessment of the intersectoral and development policies that have influenced the process. Particular attention is paid to the legal characteristics of the Unified Health System.
Paulo Marchiori, Buss, Antonio Ivo, de Carvalho   +1 more
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