Advancing Health Promotion Pedagogy: A Multi-Step, Applied Health Promotion Classroom Project

Advancing evaluation practice in health promotion.

Ben J. Smith, Chris Rissel, Trevor Shilton and Adrian Bauman School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Level 6, 99 Commercial Road, Melbourne, Vic. 3004, Australia. NSW Office of Preventive Health, Don Everett Building, Level 1, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, NSW 2170, Australia. National Heart Foundation Western Australia, 334 Rokeby Road, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia....

Health psychology and health promotion

Health psychology is the defined as studying of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. It contributes to is concerned with the understanding of how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute role to in physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly. For example, health is hurt by the chronically occurring environ...

Health Education and Health Promotion

One step forward in health promotion

Thalassemias are inherited blood disorders. In 2011, there was no clear situation regarding the number of thalassemia or other hemoglobinopathy patients in Romania. The luck of information has led to an increased number of patients registered by Fundeni Hospital, Bucharest in the last years. The main goal of this article is to underline the importance of implementing a screening program in Roma...

The Vale of Leven health promotion project.

A two stage health promotion programme is in progress in the Vale of Leven in Dunbartonshire. The first stage has been completed within a local factory (Polaroid UK Limited), the largest private employer in the district. A total of 1205 employees, representing 87% of the workforce, took part in the programme and were initially screened for coronary artery risk factors. Blood pressure, serum cho...