Data-driven change: assessing health promotion in the hospital/health service setting

Student driven mental health promotion in an Australian university setting

The purpose of this study was to investigate university students' perceptions of mental health problems, through an exploration of proposed health promotion interventions. An action research approach was undertaken to inform the health promotion interventions of the MindWise study. A qualitative thematic analysis of focus group data was undertaken. Three themes were abstracted from the data: th...

Assessing the Impact of Health Service Providers and Recipients on the Adoption of E-health Services

Introduction: By increasing the age of population, time considerations, the cost of health care services and the increase in unnecessary referrals to service centers, dissatisfaction among both health care providers and health service recipients are observed. By providing electronic services, part of this dissatisfaction will be eliminated. This requires the acceptance of e-health services. Giv...

Setting priorities in health education and promotion.

Breastfeeding promotion and priority setting in health.

An increase in exclusive breastfeeding prevalence can substantially reduce mortality and morbidity among infants. In this paper, estimates of the costs and impacts of three breastfeeding promotion programmes, implemented through maternity services in Brazil, Honduras and Mexico, are used to develop cost-effectiveness measures and these are compared with other health interventions. The results s...

Assessing the Impact of Health Service Providers and Recipients on the Adoption of E-health Services

Introduction: By increasing the age of population, time considerations, the cost of health care services and the increase in unnecessary referrals to service centers, dissatisfaction among both health care providers and health service recipients are observed. By providing electronic services, part of this dissatisfaction will be eliminated. This requires the acceptance of e-health services. Giv...