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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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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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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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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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Health Promotion by Social Cognitive Means

Health Education & Behavior, 2004
A. Bandura
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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 the Role of the Health Promotion Specialist

2003
Many people and many resources are devoted globally to ‘health promotion’. Yet, health promotion is plagued critically by four major problems. The first problem is almost unique to this field. The last three problems are common to many public health professionals. They are: a confused identity political baggage a firm evidence base
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