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Promoting Health by Promoting Comfort

Nursing Forum, 1992
While comfort is a concept frequently addressed in the nursing literature, few have adequately addressed this concept as a central patient objective. At present, our literature focuses more on comfort as a nursing action than on comfort as an individualized patient goal.
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Health-promoting behaviours in public health: testing the Health Promotion Model

Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, 1999
A health-promoting lifestyle encompasses far more than preventing disease and is characterised by behaviours that lead to optimal well-being, self actualisation, and personal fulfillment. This study was undertaken to investigate the health-promoting lifestyles of employees working in local public health departments (n=602) and to test two research ...
M J, Blacconiere, W A, Oleckno
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Health promotion and prevention among the unemployed: a systematic review.

Health Promotion International, 2018
The interactions between unemployment and health create a need for specific interventions for health promotion and prevention. This overview provides information on how health promotion for the unemployed has been approached with an analysis of ...
A. Hollederer
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