Journal articles: 'Health promotion projects'

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Yoon, Kichan, Sewon Park, Solji Choi, and Munjae Lee. "A Proposal for Public Health Information System-Based Health Promotion Services." Processes 8, no. 3 (March 15, 2020): 338. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pr8030338.

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This study aims to examine the current status and utilization of 22 health promotion projects that use the health care information system. We investigate the health promotion examination results for a counseling project held at health centers, which use information connected with the Health Insurance Corporation. First, we review the status of 22 health promotion projects, including 13 integrated health promotion projects and 9 other health promotion projects. Next, we examine the linkages between the 22 projects and other health promotion systems. Consequently, despite accumulating vast amounts of data, only 10 places could be linked to health promotion data in the health and medical information system; the Social Security Information Service was the only exception to this trend. The Public Health Information System (PHIS) had the lowest data utilization rate in the project. The study results show that it is necessary to utilize data from local health and medical institutions in order to provide information system-based health promotion services. In particular, it seems to be effective when health and medical institutions provided various counseling services and other linked services to local residents in connection with the Korea Health Insurance Corporation’s health examination results.

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TAKANO, Takehito. "Health Promotion and New Public Health. Healthy Cities Projects." Nippon Eiseigaku Zasshi (Japanese Journal of Hygiene) 57, no. 2 (2002): 475–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1265/jjh.57.475.

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Warren-White, Nicolette, Patricia Moorman, Morris J. Dunn, Carol S. Mitchell, Ariel Fisher, and Myron F. Floyd. "Southeast Raleigh Minority Faith-based Health Promotion Initiative." Californian Journal of Health Promotion 7, SI (September 15, 2009): 87–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.32398/cjhp.v7isi.2003.

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Faith-based organizations are a powerful resource for addressing health issues within the African American community. In this paper, we describe two projects led by volunteer faith-based leaders and community residents who collaborated with public agencies to design programs to combat obesity. The first project, the Southeast Raleigh Community Garden Project, involved the construction of a community garden and the delivery of educational programs on healthy eating among youth. The second one, Project FACT (Faith-based groups Addressing health issues through Community outreach Together in the community), implemented church-based nutrition education programs and community walking programs led by church volunteers. The purpose of the two faith-based health promotion projects was to increase opportunities for physical activity and to encourage consumption of more fruits and vegetables. These projects resulted in the construction of a walking trail with the community garden as its destination, implementation of education programs to increase nutritional awareness, the initiation of multiple walking programs, and policy changes within the church to encourage a healthier lifestyle. The projects demonstrated the feasibility of collaboration among faith-based organizations, community residents and government agencies to promote physical activity and healthful eating among families by creating physical changes in the environment and implementing educational and walking programs in low income communities.

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Szychowska, Agnieszka, Joanna Ruszkowska, and Wojciech Drygas. "Healthy Stadia Programme: innovative approach to health promotion." Polish Journal of Public Health 129, no. 1 (March 1, 2019): 5–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pjph-2019-0001.

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Abstract Sports stadia play an important role in local communities, therefore they are seen as very suitable places for various health promotion programmes. Since 2005, the Healthy Stadia programme has become a new standard for establishing policies regarding health promotion in local communities and during big international tournaments. This programme is an example of an effective setting-based approach to health promotion. Being funded by the European Union Public Health Programme, it has gained popularity in many European countries and also in Canada and Australia. Key parts of the programme include policies on tobacco and alcohol control, healthy food options and physical activity promotion on stadium grounds. Healthy Stadia programme proved to be an effective tool for promoting healthy lifestyle at many sports stadia. The programme is constantly improving and developing new projects, like Football Fans in Training (FFIT) or European Fans in Training (EuroFIT). This article provides an introduction to the programme’s main parts as well as its origins and future projects. Poland is active member of the Healthy Stadia since 2007.

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Naccarella, Lucio. "Community-based Health Promotion: An Analysis of Projects Conducted by Divisions of General Practice." Australian Journal of Primary Health 4, no. 1 (1998): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py98005.

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A descriptive analysis of community-based health promotion projects conducted by Divisions of General Practice between 1993 and 1994 and in 1996 is provided, and their design, evaluation, impact and appropriateness are considered. A total of 55 community-based health promotion projects were funded between 1993 and 1994. Analysis of the 1993 and 1994 projects revealed that: most project goals and objectives lacked clarity and measurability; almost all projects undertook some form of needs assessment; projects tended not to be targeted; participation rates and reporting varied greatly; and project evaluations were designed to measure process and impact at the individual level, rather than on a system wide level. Fifty comparable community-based health promotion projects were funded in 1996.An analysis of project proposals revealed that they were designed on the whole to be more targeted, intersectoral, collaborative and to use multiple settings and strategies than their 1993 and 1994 counterparts. Projects have increased the visibility and capacity of general practitioners (GPs) to engage in community-based health promotion, and provide evidence that they can do more than individual service provision activities, such as community-based health promotion in a diverse range of settings, and with a broad range of population groups.

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NAKAMURA, Keiko. "Health Promotion and New Public Health. Healthy Cities Projects in Europe." Nippon Eiseigaku Zasshi (Japanese Journal of Hygiene) 57, no. 2 (2002): 484–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1265/jjh.57.484.

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Kim, Keon-Yeop, Hyun-Jee Kim, and Chang-Ho Youn. "The Setting Approaches in Health Promotion Projects." Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society 12, no. 2 (February 28, 2011): 813–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/kais.2011.12.2.813.

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Joffe, Michael, and Wendy Farrant. "Medical student projects in practical health promotion." Journal of Public Health 11, no. 1 (February 1989): 35–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a042444.

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Burkert, Nathalie T., Johanna Muckenhuber, Franziska Großschädl, Martin Sprenger, Gerlinde Rohrauer-Näf, Klaus Ropin, Evelyn Martinel, and Thomas Dorner. "Good practice models for public workplace health promotion projects in Austria: promoting mental health." Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift 164, no. 7-8 (December 11, 2013): 141–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10354-013-0253-x.

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Rosing, Howard, and Angela Odoms-Young. "Community–University Food Projects, Race, and Health Promotion." Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community 43, no. 2 (April 3, 2015): 79–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10852352.2014.973273.

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St Leger, Lawrence. "Questioning sustainability in health promotion projects and programs." Health Promotion International 20, no. 4 (December 1, 2005): 317–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/dai026.

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Bjørnstad, Thor Christian, and Kari Steen-Johnsen. "Beyond Planning: The Implementation of a Worksite Health Promotional Scheme." Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies 2, no. 2 (June 1, 2012): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.19154/njwls.v2i2.2357.

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The aim of this article is to provide insight into how the presence of diverging organizational logics influences the outcome of worksite health promotion projects. The study is based on a one-year qualitative single-case study of the implementation of a health promotional physical exercise program in a transnational transport and logistics company based in Norway. While the program that was implemented was based on dominant logics in Norway, i.e., the emphasis on worker participation and influence, the organizational logics of the transport company defined company–worker relationships in other terms. We found that the logic of a highly specialized work organization that combined strict work distribution with a set of narrowly defined work tasks contradicted the logic that underpinned the health promotional program, and that this contradiction is an important reason why the initiative failed. We therefore conclude that in implementing health promotion projects at the workplace, there is a need to observe the relationship between logics related both to the project and to the organization.

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Weiss, Joann R., Nina Wallerstein, and Thomas MacLean. "Organizational Development of a University-Based Interdisciplinary Health Promotion Project." American Journal of Health Promotion 10, no. 1 (September 1995): 37–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4278/0890-1171-10.1.37.

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Purpose. To analyze the organizational development and implementation of an interdisciplinary health promotion project at the University of New Mexico. The effort involved three academic units in a 3-year externally funded project to institutionalize health promotion curricula in the respective schools and to develop a wellness-oriented service for students, faculty, and staff. Methods. The open systems theory was used as a framework to analyze the organizational and role issues that emerged from the data collected through interviews, staff surveys, and document review. The analysis is summarized by five thematic questions: (1) How did the project's vision affect its development? (2) How was leadership enacted, and with what effect? (3) What were the organizational issues for the staff? (4) What were the interdisciplinary dilemmas? (5) What was instituted or changed as a result of the project? Results. The analysis uncovered a series of interpersonal and organizational dilemmas involving the nature of the organizational environment, the character of interdisciplinary work, leadership, boundaries of group membership, and the structuring of a unified vision. Conclusions. Future projects should consider the strength and stability of the boundary spanners, the resource context, and the role of a unified vision for new and organizationally linked units as key issues in facilitating and sustaining change.

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Curtis, Tine, Ingelise Olesen, Ann B. Kjeldsen, and Peter Bjerregaard. "Experiences from three community health promotion projects in Greenland." International Journal of Circumpolar Health 64, no. 3 (July 2005): 260–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ijch.v64i3.17993.

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Horn, Virginie, and Prathip Phantumvanit. "Oral health promotion and education messages in Live.Learn.Laugh. projects." International Dental Journal 64 (October 2014): 12–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/idj.12127.

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ODDY, WENDY H., C. D'ARCY J. HOLMAN, BILLIE CORTI, and ROBERT J. DONOVAN. "Epidemiological Measures of Participation in Community Health Promotion Projects." International Journal of Epidemiology 24, no. 5 (1995): 1013–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/24.5.1013.

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HOLMAN, C. D'ARCY J., WENDY H. ODDY, BILLIE CORTI, and ROBERT J. DONOVAN. "Epidemiologic Measures of Impact of Community Health Promotion Projects." International Journal of Epidemiology 25, no. 3 (1996): 687–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/25.3.687.

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Gareeva, I. A., and A. B. Konobeyskaya. "Healthy lifestyle of students as a social value and real practice (based on the materials of a sociological study)." POWER AND ADMINISTRATION IN THE EAST OF RUSSIA 93, no. 4 (2020): 178–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/1818-4049-2020-93-4-178-190.

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The article deals with the problem of forming a healthy lifestyle of students, provides statistical data on changes in the health of representatives of this group, provides arguments about the need to form a healthy lifestyle of students as a priority task of social development, through social programs and projects for prevention, preservation and promotion of public health. The article analyzes the directions of implementation of the target municipal program "Preserving and strengthening the health of the population of the Khabarovsk city district for 2015-2020", aimed at maintaining and promoting a healthy lifestyle, and notes both positive aspects and shortcomings in its content. The results of the implementation of the municipal grant project for the promotion of healthy lifestyle technologies in educational institutions of the city are presented. A program for training and training of activists and organizers of healthy lifestyle has been developed and presented. Priority areas for preserving and strengthening the health of students have been identified.

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George, M. Anne, Mark Daniel, and Lawrence W. Green. "Appraising and Funding Participatory Research in Health Promotion." International Quarterly of Community Health Education 18, no. 2 (July 1998): 181–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/c1b5-7ppe-7tyl-7yn8.

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Participatory action research combines research, education and social action. Each of these elements reflects health education research and practice. Indeed, health education, health promotion and participatory research have converged in these respects. Participatory research is well suited to the philosophies and theories underpinning community-based health education and health promotion. The nature of participatory research is such that funding agencies, especially those awarding research funds, tend to be challenged in their attempts to assess proposals. This is true at least for those agencies operating under traditional criteria for reviewing standards, which may not be appropriate for participatory research. As well, it may reflect a broader lack of common understanding about the processes and expectations, the apparent untidiness of projects (comparing with traditional research) which by their nature offer no standard methods, deadlines, procedures or predetermined outcome measures. The Study of Participatory Research in Health Promotion [1], commissioned by the Royal Society of Canada, attempted to clarify the topic by providing a working definition and a set of guidelines for use by funding agencies when appraising projects purporting to be participatory research. The guidelines emphasize how the normal ways of conducting health research in populations need to adapt to meet the educational and policy expectations of participatory research. The study also examined current practical examples of participatory research in the field of health promotion in Canada. This summary of the results of the project provides detailed guidelines flowing from a review of experience in the field and consultation with groups engaged in participatory research.

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Bruun Jensen, Bjarne, and Venka Simovska. "Involving students in learning and health promotion processes - clarifying why? what? and how?" Promotion & Education 12, no. 3-4 (September 2005): 150–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10253823050120030114.

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The concept of student participation is currently a popular notion in health promoting schools as well as in general education. However, phrases such as 'involvement', 'participation', 'co-determination' and 'influence' are frequently used without careful definition. In this article two models, developed in the context of health promoting schools in two different cultures, are presented and discussed. The first model makes a fundamental distinction between token and genuine participation. Token participation in health promotion is characterised by focusing on prescribed knowledge, closed and convergent outcomes and targeting individuals isolated from the surrounding environment. In contrast, genuine participation stresses students' own construction of knowledge, open and divergent outcomes and targeting individuals in their context. Genuine participation is in accordance with a democratic health promoting school aiming at students' empowerment and action competence. The second model clarifies a number of different categories of students' participation in health promotion. The different categories illustrate how the teacher in various ways can play an active role in participatory approaches as a responsible professional. The more the students are involved in health projects, the more important it will be for the teacher to provide support, insight and knowledge to facilitate the learning processes. Furthermore, the different participation categories have to be related to a number of decisions which are normally included in a school health project. The model illustrates that participation should always be viewed in relation to the context and that it makes no sense to establish a single ideal way of working with participation in a health promoting school. The theoretical models are illuminated by concrete examples from health promoting schools. The overall conclusion is that participation is a complex term and rather than providing definitive answers, the models can be used as a framework for discussion among all stakeholders in planning, implementation, evaluation and managing projects involving student participation. Finally, specific implications and challenges for future health promoting schools are outlined. These are as follows: •a participatory approach does not imply that health content should be regarded as vague or superfluous; • teachers need flexible educational models and resources to manage participatory projects in health promoting schools; · schools have to be acknowledged as cultural systems with firmly rooted rules and routines that are often difficult to change; • a participatory approach has to influence all aspects of a democratic health promoting school rather than solely the teaching strategies.

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Lee, Munjae, Sewon Park, and Kichan Yoon. "Do Health Promotion Programs Affect Local Residents’ Emotions?" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 4 (February 14, 2019): 549. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16040549.

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Healthy cities continuously attempt to improve residents’ health. Health is affected by psychological factors, such as happiness and emotions. Therefore, this study investigates the effects of healthy city program performance on individuals’ emotions, as well as the correlation between healthy city program performance and emotions using personal happiness index as a parameter. We conducted a questionnaire survey of residents in areas implementing healthy city projects. A total of 596 responses were obtained. We used structural equations to analyze the relationship of structural influences. Results showed that healthy city program performance had significant static effects on emotion. This observation shows that healthy city programs decrease local residents’ negative emotions, such as stress and depression. Therefore, healthy city programs stabilize residents’ emotions by increasing health friendliness. To improve the performance of healthy city programs, it is necessary to mitigate health risk factors and positively affect individuals’ emotions.

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Pirkis, Jane, David Dunt, Denise Ruth, and Helen Jordan. "GPs and Practice-Based Health Promotion: An Analysis of Projects Conducted by Divisions of General Practice." Australian Journal of Primary Health 3, no. 4 (1997): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py97037.

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All practice-based health promotion projects conducted by Divisions of General Practice, funded in 1993 and 1994, are examined in this paper. The aims of the study are to describe their characteristics and evaluation; consider their effectiveness and appropriateness; and compare them with a sample funded in 1995 and 1996. Relevant information was analysed from project evaluation reports and summaries. Five immunisation, nine screening and 13 lifestyle counselling projects were funded in 1993-1994. The evaluation activities in these projects were variable, but the projects appeared to have desirable impacts. Evaluation findings indicate they have had high GP and consumer participation rates; lead to changes in GP knowledge and behaviour (for example, increased use of lifestyle counselling resources); and had positive impacts for consumers (for example, increases in immunisation and screening rates). Two immunisation, four screening and eight lifestyle counselling projects were funded in the second funding round in 1995 and the first in 1996. Although similar to the earlier projects, these projects often had a more systemic focus and made use of previously-developed knowledge and resources. Evaluation findings indicate that Divisional projects have increased GPs' capacity to engage in practice-based health promotion activities, and contributed to the achievement of the aims of the General Practice Strategy. Projects have improved the sophistication of their conceptualisation and design over time. Lessons from these projects point to particular policy implications for future funding arrangements, and these are discussed.

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Shiroyama, Cora, Lorna McKee, and Linda McKie. "Evaluating health promotion projects in primary care: recent experiences in Scotland." Health Education Journal 54, no. 2 (June 1995): 226–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001789699505400211.

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The evaluation of health promotion in primary health care has been brought to the forefront of debates in Scotland with the introduction of an evaluation component in every project funded under the Development of Health Care Fund scheme. The level of skills and empathy with evaluation approaches and research methods varies considerably between primary health care team members, and consequently academic researchers are increasingly being drawn into NHS debates on evaluation and health promotion in primary health care. In this article the authors draw upon their respective experiences as evaluators to highlight specific issues and concerns in the evaluation of health promotion in a primary health care setting.

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Boyce, William F. "Disadvantaged persons’ participation in health promotion projects: some structural dimensions." Social Science & Medicine 52, no. 10 (May 2001): 1551–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0277-9536(00)00268-9.

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Van den Broucke, Stephan, and Frank Lenders. "Monitoring the Planning Quality of Health Promotion Projects in Flanders." Promotion & Education 4, no. 2 (June 1997): 26–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/102538239700400213.

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Jones, K. V., and Hsu-Hage. "Health promotion projects: skill and attitude learning for medical students." Medical Education 33, no. 8 (August 1999): 585–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2923.1999.00438.x.

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Carli, V. "The Sayle Research Project." European Psychiatry 24, S1 (January 2009): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0924-9338(09)70523-1.

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High prevalence of self-destructive behaviours during adolescence - both as expression of early psychopathology and as “paraphysiological” developmental behaviors - challenges the implementation of health promotion strategies specifically addressed to an age bracket in which plasticity of psychical structure can favour an overall successful outcome.SAYLE is a European research project with the aim of promoting healthy behaviours in adolescents, at a high school level of intervention. During the presentation targets and structure of the prevention program will be described. The projects has been designed in order to compare the efficacy of different prevention strategies for adolescents: a general health promotion program targeting students’ awareness on healthy/unhealthy behaviours and students" self-efficacy in diminishing unhealthy behaviours; a screening by professionals of at-risk students through a questionnaire (TeenScreen) - for adolescents identified as high risk (screen positives) the program includes referral to mental health treatment and ensuring compliance; a gatekeepers’ program, training all adult staff at schools (teachers, counselors, nurses etc.) and parents on how to recognize & refer a student with risk-taking behaviours or suffering from mental illness to mental-health help resources (QPR -Question, Persuade & Refer).

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Kontsevaya, A. V., S. A. Shalnova, and O. M. Drapkina. "ESSE-RF study: epidemiology and public health promotion." Cardiovascular Therapy and Prevention 20, no. 5 (September 12, 2021): 2987. http://dx.doi.org/10.15829/1728-8800-2021-2987.

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The largest population-based study in Russian modern history the Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Diseases and their Risk Factors in Regions of Russian Federation (ESSE-RF) for 8 years has become a platform for public health research and projects, relevant for the whole country. Results of the ESSE-RF study were used to identify Demography National Project parameters, to model mortality and morbidity risk at the population level, to estimate the economic burden of risk factors, to predict the economic effect of population prevention measures, to assess the feasibility of using novel biomarkers for risk stratification, as well as for external evaluation of health care system. Further, results can be used to develop a novel cardiovascular risk score, to analyze COVID-19-related risk factors, and to study health protection environment. Epidemiological studies ESSE-RF1 and ESSE-RF2 have already become a significant component of public health system in Russia, and taking into account the scope of the ESSE-RF3 study (30 regions), the role of epidemiology will increase.

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Silva, Patrícia Costa dos Santos da, Lívia Ferreira Oliveira, Mariana Ramos, Michele Aparecida Silva Maciel, Luana Araújo Macedo Scalia, Efigênia Aparecida Maciel de Freitas, Andréa Mara Bernardes da Silva, and Suely Amorim de Araújo. "University Extension Project as a Health Promotion Instrument during the Covid-19 Pandemic." International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 9, no. 7 (July 1, 2021): 295–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol9.iss7.3250.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the reality, made social isolation urgent aiming at reducing the contagion of the disease and, as a consequence, had to interrupt the classes and actions of extension projects in person. In this aspect, the Internet has become a possibility of interaction between teachers, nursing students and the community in an extension project university entitled: "Aromatherapy as a tool for coping in times of pandemic. Thus, the present study is a report of the authors' experience in the project of aromatherapy as an activity for health promotion in times of pandemic by COVID-19. A descriptive qualitative report was carried out on the experiences of the authors with the use of a virtual platform as an alternative informative content on the subject, during this period. The project was carried out in five weeks, with three synchronous meetings, the programmatic content was guided by scientific evidence, with guidelines of great importance to the public assisted with the aim of promoting health and be a tool for coping in times of pandemic. Thus, access to health promotion and exchange of knowledge of the target audience of the extension project was expanded.

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Will, Julie C., Rosanne P. Farris, Charlene G. Sanders, Chrisandra K. Stockmyer, and Eric A. Finkelstein. "Health Promotion Interventions for Disadvantaged Women: Overview of the WISEWOMAN Projects." Journal of Women's Health 13, no. 5 (June 2004): 484–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/1540999041281025.

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Sastre, Lauren R., Lauren D. Wright, and Lauren Haldeman. "Use of Digital Photography With Newcomer Immigrant and Refugee Youth to Examine Behaviors and Promote Health." Health Promotion Practice 20, no. 5 (July 29, 2019): 639–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524839919863465.

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This project examined health behaviors of newly arrived immigrant and refugee youth through digital photography as part of a health promotion intervention. Students ( n = 23) aged 12 to 17 years at a school for newcomer youth in North Carolina used digital cameras to record dietary and physical activity behaviors, barriers, and promoters in their home environment. Eighteen participants completed individual photography projects that revealed consumption of soda, processed foods, limited calcium-rich foods, and limited evidence of physical activity. Photography project results and topics from nutrition education provided during the program were used to tailor health promotion resources. Students used digital cameras and props to create visual health-promoting materials (e.g., large posters for school hallways) that included and represented the wide range of cultures and ethnicities at the school. Facilitated discussion analysis revealed students preferred positive health promotion messages (health benefits of fruits and vegetables) versus negative (sugar or salt content of foods). Students reported they enjoyed using the cameras and developing materials and that as result of their experience they want to increase fruit and vegetable consumption, reduce sugar sweetened beverages, and increase physical activity. Digital photography shows promise as a tool to identify health behaviors and environmental barriers and to tailor health messages, especially with populations experiencing language, literacy, and/or cultural barriers.

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Uveric-Radovic, Mila. "Health priorities in the city of Novi Sad." Medical review 60, no. 9-10 (2007): 464–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/mpns0710464u.

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Introduction. Health is the expression of two mutually related aspects of the socioecological system - health balance and health potential, which integrate the main aspects of the socioecological paradigm. Responsibility for health. Individuals, families, community members and the local government are of special importance for public health in the city of Novi Sad. Their partnership and collaboration are the key elements of successful public health practices and reduction of health inequalities. Health status of the population of the Novi Sad. Indicators of health status and follow-up of the population of Novi Sad (sample included the population aged 24-74, part of the WHO MONICA project), point to low population growth rate, accelerating trend of population aging, high prevalence of chronic non-communicable diseases and behavioral and biological risk factors related with non-communicable diseases (smoking, physical inactivity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol level). Strategy framework for health promotion. At present situation, in the health policy and in the health care system of the city of Novi Sad, priority has been given to prevention programs and projects aimed at health promotion. Conclusion. Effective implementation of health promotion and prevention programs and projects, followed by close cooperation of medical and non-medical experts, as well as organizations and institutions, is a good base for achieving the main goal - Health for All in the 21st Century. .

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Darlington, Emily, and Julien Masson. "What does co-creation mean? An attempt at definition informed by the perspectives of school health promoters in France." Health Education Journal 80, no. 6 (May 9, 2021): 746–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00178969211013570.

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Background: Capacity building and community-level participation are important to enhance the efficiency and sustainability of health promotion programmes, as well as to promote empowerment and decision-making power. However, stakeholders’ participation in the design and implementation of health promotion projects often involves the provision of information and consultation rather than partnership or citizen control, especially in school settings. Co-creation could be a means to support higher levels of participation, yet its definition remains unclear. A further challenge relates to the methods needed to promote participation. Examining what co-creation represents for health promoters could help in both of these respects. Objectives and goals: This study explored how school health promotion professionals perceived and defined co-creation to gain insight into how to encourage co-creation processes in school-based health promotion. Methods: Qualitative data including documents and illustrations were collected during creative thinking activities undertaken with school health promotion professionals. All data collected were transcribed and analysed using a three-stage screening process. Results: Co-creation is a multi-dimensional construct. Based on our findings, it is a voluntary-based process of bottom-up collaboration informed by values of diversity, mutual trust, openness, autonomy, freedom, respect and shared expertise, responsibility and decision-making. Co-creation can result in out-of-the-box, new or improved tailored health-promoting practices and projects, which address a co-defined need, for the benefit of all members of the group. Conclusion: Co-creation is timely and key in school health promotion practices. Further research is needed into the specific competences needed to promote co-creation, as well as the methods used to evaluate achievements and added value of co-creation at different levels of implementation.

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Boehm, Lisa Krissoff, and Linda S. Larrivee. "Promoting a Culture of Engaged Scholarship and Mentoring Junior Faculty in the Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotion Process at a ‘Teaching First’ University." Metropolitan Universities 27, no. 2 (August 16, 2016): 7–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.18060/21123.

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This paper analyzes the processes and outcomes involved with mentoring junior faculty in the reappointment, promotion, and tenure (RPT) process at a comprehensive state university and creating a culture supportive of engaged research. Although the university in this case study is governed by a collective bargaining agreement that prohibits the development of new written policies on RPT, the deans and other academic leaders can promote significant change through cultural means. The article will examine: the place of engaged scholarship within the reappointment, tenure, and promotion processes of the university; the university’s commitment to a cross-institutional research approach; the mentoring of faculty conducting innovative community projects; the university’s recent strategic plan initiative funding of collaborative cross-college and community projects; partnership with the city of Worcester’s Department of Public Health on applied scholarship related to five domains of public health currently establishedas the focus of efforts by the city and the region; and the innovative CitySpeak devised theater project. At this state university, strong leadership helped support a deepening culture of engaged teaching and scholarship and helped faculty negotiate the road of RPT.

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HOLMAN, C. D'ARCY J., ROBERT J. DONOVAN, BILLIE CORTI, GEOFFREY JALLEH, SHIRLEY K. FRIZZELL, and ADDY M. CARROLL. "Evaluating projects funded by the Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation: first results." Health Promotion International 11, no. 2 (1996): 75–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/11.2.75.

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Altman, David G., Jerry Endres, Juliette Linzer, Kate Lorig, Beth Howard-Pitney, and Todd Rogers. "Obstacles to and future goals of ten comprehensive community health promotion projects." Journal of Community Health 16, no. 6 (December 1991): 299–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01324515.

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Wagner, Nicole, Dirk Meusel, Christiane Höger, and Wilhelm Kirch. "Health promotion in kindergarten children: an assessment of evaluated projects in Germany." Journal of Public Health 13, no. 6 (October 11, 2005): 291–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10389-005-0133-y.

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Mattig, Thomas. "Coordinating health promotion in a federal state over the course of 30 years: a case report from Switzerland." Health Promotion Perspectives 9, no. 4 (October 24, 2019): 323–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/hpp.2019.45.

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In a federal state such as Switzerland, the 26 cantons enjoy wide autonomy in all policy areas, including health policy. In the late 1980s, after the signing of the Ottawa Charter for health promotion, the Swiss Confederation and the cantons decided to create a foundation whose goal it was to initiate, coordinate and evaluate health promotion and disease prevention activities throughout the country. Thirty years later, the many stakeholders in the field have accepted health Promotion Switzerland as a key actor. The foundation was able to successfully initiate and coordinate projects in such priority areas as "Healthy Body Weight," "Mental Health –Stress" and "Strengthening Health Promotion & Prevention." But several challenges remain, for example, chronic noncommunicable diseases, an aging population, mental disorders, prevention in healthcare—challenges the foundation will have to face and to which it is expected to provide solutions.

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Czeresnia, Dina. "The concept of health and the difference between prevention and promotion." Cadernos de Saúde Pública 15, no. 4 (October 1999): 701–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-311x1999000400004.

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In this article the author presents a point of view which she considers central to understanding the difference between prevention - associated with the traditional discourse of public health - and health promotion, an idea in connection with which proposals are now being presented for rethinking and redirecting public health practices. This perspective relates to the limits of the health and disease concepts in relation to the concrete experiences of health and illness. On the one hand, practical awareness of this limit implies far-reaching changes in the way scientific knowledge is related to (and used in) the formulation and organization of health practices; on the other, health promotion projects also avail themselves of the concepts guiding the discourse of prevention. This leads to certain difficulties that appear as inconsistencies or gray areas in the operationalization of promotion projects, which do not always succeed in asserting their nature as distinct from traditional preventive practices.

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Finan, Donald, and Deanna Meinke. "A Novel Interdisciplinary Course: Musical Acoustics and Health Issues." Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups 1, no. 19 (March 31, 2016): 15–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/persp1.sig19.15.

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In response to a college call for new interdisciplinary coursework in the Natural and Health Sciences, an undergraduate level course was created with focus on the physics and biophysics of sound. The physics of sound production in musical instruments is used as a model for understanding vocal production and sound reception, with emphasis on relevant issues of vocal and hearing health promotion. This project-based course, titled “Musical Acoustics and Health Issues,” was designed in collaboration with faculty from Audiology, Speech Science, Public Health, Music, Physics, Music Technology, and Science Education. Student performance is assessed through a series of eight hands-on projects designed to maximize active learning strategies. Course projects center on the concept of “sound as energy” and include the construction of string-based (cigar box guitar) and tube-based (PVC pipe didgeridoo) instruments. Course design, project details, and course outcomes are presented.

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Merkes, Monika. "Examples of Exemplary Practice in Adolescent Primary Health Care." Australian Journal of Primary Health 4, no. 1 (1998): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py98004.

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As one of seven projects funded by the Victorian Government Department of Human Services to investigate exemplary practice in adolescent health, a study was undertaken in the Department's office in the Northern Metropolitan Region that examined two existing primary health projects: the Keeping in Touch with Schools (KITS) Project, auspiced by the Eltham Community Health Centre and Diamond Valley Secondary College in the City of Nillumbik, and the Youth Counselling Awareness and Support (YCAS) Project, auspiced by Kildonan Family Services in the City of Whittlesea. Proiect features that were explored included elements and type of service, referral pathways and linkages, consumer satisfaction and other service outcomes, elements critical to success, obstacles, supervision and staff training, standards and guidelines, planning and evaluation, promotion of the service, and organisational structure. The study found that a combination of characteristics contributed to the success of the two projects that were examined. These pertain to skills and expertise of staff, flexibility of the service, cost, the type of service model, co-location with other services, linkages and partnerships, outputs and outcomes, feedback, management structure, standards and guidelines, planning processes, and evaluation.

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Love, Richard R. "Changing the Health Promotion Behaviors of Primary Care Physicians: Lessons from Two Projects." Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement 21, no. 7 (July 1995): 339–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1070-3241(16)30159-6.

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HOLMAN, C. D'ARCY J., ROBERT J. DONOVAN, and BILLIE CORTI. "Evaluating projects funded by the Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation: a systematic approach." Health Promotion International 8, no. 3 (1993): 199–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/8.3.199.

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Boadu, Elijah Frimpong, Riza Yosia Sunindijo, and Cynthia Changxin Wang. "Health and Safety Consideration in the Procurement of Public Construction Projects in Ghana." Buildings 11, no. 3 (March 20, 2021): 128. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings11030128.

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This study explored the extent to which health and safety (H&S) are considered in the procurement of public sector projects in Ghana. This is based on the background that procurement decisions have implications for project H&S management. The enormous size of public procurement projects offers opportunities for public clients to influence the behaviour of the construction market including the promotion of H&S through procurement. To date, no study has fully assessed the extent of H&S considerations in procurement decisions for public sector construction projects in Ghana. To fill this gap, this research has provided an evidence-based assessment of H&S considerations in the various stages of the procurement process for public sector projects in Ghana. Through a questionnaire survey, data were collected from construction industry professionals in Ghana. The data were subjected to statistical analysis to evaluate the extent of H&S considerations. The findings suggest that H&S is given low priority in the procurement of public projects, because clear project objectives relating to H&S are not set, and adequate consideration is not given to H&S at the various procurement stages. Based on the findings, this research has made recommendations to promote H&S in public procurement in Ghana.

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Godin, Gaston, Hélène Gagnon, Michel Alary, Joseph J. Levy, and Joanne Otis. "The Degree of Planning: An Indicator of the Potential Success of Health Education Programs." Promotion & Education 14, no. 3 (September 2007): 138–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/175797590701400301.

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Evaluation is a major challenge in the field of health promotion and health education. Since the degree to which a project is planned often guarantees its potential success, the evaluation process should make it possible to answer different questions related to stages of project implementation. The goal of this study was to develop a planning tool to help health professionals and community workers judge the potential success of health education interventions based on the extent to which they are planned and to test the tool in real intervention evaluations. Educational interventions examined in this study were targeted primarily at the promotion and adoption of behaviour reducing the risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission. The conceptual framework of “intervention mapping” served as the basis for developing the tool. Experts were consulted to identify criteria that would make it possible to evaluate the extent to which different stages of the model were accomplished. The tool was tested for reliability. Data from 123 projects were then collected and analyzed. The process for the development of the tool made it possible to identify 40 planning criteria, broken down into the 19 tasks of intervention mapping model. Reliability test results were highly satisfactory. The overall average score for project planning was 12.7 out of 40. The degree to which different stages were planned varied considerably. For example, only 15% of projects had developed their objective matrices properly, whereas 80% were assured proper support for their implementation. Thirty-nine percent of the projects were satisfactorily available for evaluation. This exercise made it possible to construct an interesting tool for identifying strengths and weaknesses of intervention planning. Various promoters might find this tool useful for increasing the potential success of their initiatives.

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Pham, Cong Tuan, Chiachi Bonnie Lee, Thi Lien Huong Nguyen, Jin-Ding Lin, Shahmir Ali, and Cordia Chu. "Integrative settings approach to workplace health promotion to address contemporary challenges for worker health in the Asia-Pacific." Global Health Promotion 27, no. 2 (April 3, 2019): 82–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757975918816691.

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Workplaces in the rapidly industrializing Asia-Pacific region face growing pressures from high-speed development driven by global competition, migration and the aging of the workforce. Apart from addressing work-related injuries, workplaces in the region also have to deal with increasing occupational stress, chronic diseases and their associated socio-economic burden. Meanwhile, interventions in workplace health are still dominated by a narrow behavioral change model. To this end, the integrative workplace health promotion model, initiated by the World Health Organization from successful post-1990 pilot projects, emerges as a timely, comprehensive and appropriate means to manage contemporary workplace health and safety issues in the region. In this paper, we highlight the key workplace health challenges in the Asia-Pacific region and the utility of the integrative workplace health promotion model in addressing them. We provide a brief overview of the pressing challenges confronting workplaces in the region, then explain the why, what and how of integrative workplace health promotion. We illustrate this model by reviewing successful examples of good practice and evidence of their achievements from workplace health promotion programs in Asia-Pacific from 2002 to date, with specific attention to government-led workplace health promotion programs in Shanghai, Singapore and Taiwan. Drawing from these successful examples, we recommend government policies and facilitating strategies needed to guide, support and sustain industries in implementing integrative workplace health promotion. We conclude that consistent supportive government policies, coupled with facilitation by international bodies towards capacity and professional network building, are crucial to developing and sustaining healthy workplaces in the region.

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Baum, Frances. "Goals and Targets for Health: Their Limitations as an Approach to Promoting Health." Australian Journal of Primary Health 1, no. 1 (1995): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py95005.

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Setting goals and targets for health has become a popular activity with health promoters around the world. In this paper, it is argued that this approach to planning for health has a tendency to focus on a medical and behavioural definition of health to the detriment of more holistic approaches that focus on communities and their participation in improving health. Goals and targets are generally associated with the illness care sector and not well suited to health promotion that seeks to tackle underlying social or environmental causes of ill-health. The paper concludes with suggestions for alternative approaches to health promotion that draw on the more holistic view of health promoted by Healthy Cities and like projects. Approaches that enhance the capacities of organisations and communities to take action to plan for their own health are advocated. National governments have an important role in supporting and legitimising local and regional action through policy and resource provision.

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Lofton, Saria, and Martha Dewey Bergren. "Collaborating With Youth in School Health Promotion Initiatives With Photovoice." NASN School Nurse 34, no. 1 (June 15, 2018): 56–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1942602x18779424.

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Photovoice, a community-based approach that is being embraced in school settings, can help to nurture collaborations with youth, particularly adolescents, and engage them in the development of social policy and health promotion projects. Photovoice is an approach that positions school nurses to inspire youth to take ownership of health promotion issues that directly affect them in the school and in their communities. Engaging youth in Photovoice not only allows advocates to directly work with youth but also promotes critical thinking and the exploration of topics that may not otherwise be considered. Photovoice raises awareness about issues through critical dialogue and is well suited to engage youth and provide a channel for youth to assert their voices.

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Murray, Charlie, and Gwyneth Jolley. "Initiatives in primary health care: Evaluation of a South Australian program." Australian Health Review 22, no. 3 (1999): 155. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah990155.

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In 1994 the Primary Health Care Initiatives Program was established as part of the South Australian government's hospital service improvement strategy. In its first year, the program funded 34 demonstration projects, of which half were concerned with improving continuity of care and discharge planning, and half with health promotion or illness prevention. Evaluation of the program has shown that it achieved significant improvements in links and communication between the services involved, in the development of systems and procedures for facilitating discharge-planning and continuity of care, and in enhancing the capacity of organisations to undertake health promotion and illness prevention. Overall, it was not possible to determine whether the program had shortened or avoided hospital stays due to a range of factors, including the many changes occurring in the health system at the time. The program's strong emphasis on evaluation has produced a rich source of information and helped to develop the evaluation skills of project staff.

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Vostanis, Panos. "The Mental Health Promotion of Adolescents and Young People: Directory of Projects in Europe." Child and Adolescent Mental Health 8, no. 1 (February 2003): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-3588.00046_7.

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