Results 351 to 360 of about 9,229,717 (407)

Health promotion is peace promotion

Health Promotion International, 1987
This paper discusses the effects of the arms race on health, in the absence of nuclear war. High levels of military expenditure are inextricably linked to unemployment, poverty, starvation and ill health. Alternatives to the escalation of military expenditure are possible; health promotion can be involved in wider public health initiatives towards ...
openaire   +3 more sources

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.
openaire   +3 more sources

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.
openaire   +2 more sources

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.
openaire   +3 more sources

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.
openaire   +3 more sources

Planning Health Promotion Programs: An Intervention Mapping Approach

, 2017
Planning Health Promotion Programs is the go–to reference in the field. Now in its fourth edition, this volume offers students and practitioners an effective guide to the overall planning process.
Lorraine Hicking-Woodison
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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 ...
openaire   +1 more source

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 ...
openaire   +3 more sources

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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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.
openaire   +2 more sources