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The Future for Health Promotion

2018
Does health promotion have a lasting and positive effect on people? With mounting pressure to reduce costs to the NHS and increasing scepticism of the so-called nanny state, health promotion initiatives are increasingly being criticised as costly and ineffective, with many arguing that health inequalities can only be reduced through radical political ...
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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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Economics and health promotion

The European Journal of Health Economics, formerly: HEPAC, 2004
Health promotion activities consume a growing proportion of health sector spending in most developed countries. Yet, there is still considerable debate in the non-economic literature about exactly what health promotion constitutes and precisely how its role is to be conceived. This paper provides one economic answer to such questions.
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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, William A. Oleckno
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Does “Health Promotion” Really Promote Health?

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2005
Abstract  In his comment on Victor Fuch's essay, the late Alvan Feinstein raised the question of whether government‐sponsored programs of “health promotion” are always good for well‐being.
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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 ...
Grant T. Baldwin, Elizabeth H Howze, Michelle C. Kegler   +2 more
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Neuroscience, molecular biology, and the childhood roots of health disparities: building a new framework for health promotion and disease prevention.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2009
A scientific consensus is emerging that the origins of adult disease are often found among developmental and biological disruptions occurring during the early years of life.
J. Shonkoff, W. T. Boyce, Bruce S Mcewen
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The Profitization of Health Promotion

International Journal of Health Services, 1988
In this article the author argues that not only is the marketplace an ineffective arena for health development, it is currently generating decision-making paths that obscure more effective perspectives and directions to promote Americans' health.
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An Ecological Perspective on Health Promotion Programs

Health Education Quarterly, 1988
K. McLeroy, D. Bibeau, A. Steckler, K. Glanz   +3 more
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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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