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CAM Education: Promoting a Salutogenic Focus in Health Care

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 2008
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) education has created a focus that not only brings awareness of various CAM therapies to conventional medical education but also highlights how these therapies can bring insight toward improved health care.A survey of CAM educational leaders at institutions awarded grants for incorporating CAM education into
David P, Rakel, Mary P, Guerrera, Brian P, Bayles, Gautam J, Desai, Emily, Ferrara   +4 more
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Health Promotion by Dietary Restriction—A Focus

Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology, 2006
Food restriction, although long popular among gerontologists, has emerged as a new challenge in public health in postindustrial societies because this is the only intervention that repeatedly and strikingly increases maximum life span. The practice of food restriction is widespread for cosmetic, health, and economic reasons.
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Using focus groups to evaluate health promotion interventions

Health Education, 2000
Introduces focus group methodology to health professionals interested in the possibility of using the method to evaluate health promotion interventions. A working definition and brief history of the method is provided, followed by a summary of possible uses in the three types of evaluation: formative; process; and outcome.
Kirsten Mitchell, Patrick Branigan
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Health Promotion: focus on care of the dying

International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 1998
Despite the fact that health is considered to be for all people the literature on health promotion rarely considers the needs of the dying person and his/her family. However, each one of us must face the process of dying at some stage in our lives. The goal of palliative care is to achieve the best quality of life for patients and their families.
Phil Russell, Ruth Sander
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Promoting Team-Oriented Behavior Based on Regulatory Focus Theory

AHFE International, 2022
This research analyzed the effects of two safety management approaches with respect towards teamwork. An approach based on a conventional safety perspective called Safety-I has contributed to improving industrial safety by eliminating failures or mistakes as much as possible.
Keitaro Ichikawa, Daisuke Karikawa, Makoto Takahashi, Tsubasa Otsuki   +3 more
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Health promotion--a focus for hospitals.

Australian health review : a publication of the Australian Hospital Association, 1991
A hospital is in a unique position, both as a service provider and an employer, to provide a focus for disease prevention and health maintenance based on a greater understanding of the relationship between social and physical environment and lifestyle factors on health. Developing hospitals to become a resource for health instead of merely another link
J, Aiello, L, Barry, L, Lienert, T, Byrnes   +3 more
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From focus to flourish: harnessing promotion focus and polychronicity in business

Kybernetes
PurposeThis study investigates the interrelationships among promotion focus (PF), psychological ownership (PO), polychronicity (PC) and perceived organizational support (POS) in an organizational setup. While previous literature examined these constructs in isolation, this research uniquely integrates them. It studies how POS moderates the relationship
Chithra Manickam, Rajadurai B. Issac Johny, Hamshavarthini Viswanathan   +2 more
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Focus on mental health promotion, obesity and alcohol

2014
This chapter explores a practice-based approach to mental health promotion. The key aspects of mental health promotion, including core principles to support interventions, will be reviewed to provide a framework for developing strategies. Traditionally mental health promotion has been viewed as any action that aims to enhance the mental well-being of ...
Vicky Baldwin, Anne Pridgeon, Stephanie James   +2 more
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Focus on students to boost engagement, promote innovation

Dean and Provost, 2017
M. Brian Blake entered academic administration reluctantly. When he was first nominated to be a department chair, he turned the opportunity down. But a mentor encouraged him to try it, and he quickly realized he liked administration. He was recruited to be an associate dean at another institution and then the dean of the graduate school at the ...
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Promoting a European Dimension of Intercultural Education—Focus on Training

European Journal of Intercultural studies, 1998
(1998). Promoting a European Dimension of Intercultural Education—Focus on Training. European Journal of Intercultural studies: Vol. 9, No. sup1, pp. S5-S11.
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