Behaviour and health promotion

Advertising, consumer behaviour and health: Exploring possibilities for health promotion

The present paper examines the potential of a consumer behaviour approach as a means of using television advertising for health-promotion purposes. Research on the portrayal of health on television is reviewed and recent developments in employing regular television broadcasting for health education are discussed. Based on empirical findings, a consumer behaviour approach for health promotion is...

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

Stress Managment and Health Promotion

Health promotion approach is utilized to address the prevention, management and early intervention for stress management and also to promote positive mental and psychological health. Stress affects everyone and must be managed effectively to reduce its chronic and deleterious effects this study consists of two sections: in first section the principals of health promotion in different human exis...

Healthy promotion: changing behaviour towards evidence-based health care.

All organisations have to change to meet challenges or take forward new opportunities. Health organisations are no different; all over the world they face pressures to buy and to provide care that is based on evidence of its effectiveness. This is not a new concept: it is what staff within those organisations have always considered themselves to be doing. What is new is the emphasis that is put...