Do multiple community-based interventions on health promotion tackle health inequalities?

Social and health policies or interventions to tackle health inequalities in European cities: a scoping review

BACKGROUND Health inequalities can be tackled with appropriate health and social policies, involving all community groups and governments, from local to global. The objective of this study was to carry out a scoping review on social and health policies or interventions to tackle health inequalities in European cities published in scientific journals. METHODS Scoping review. The search was don...

Reducing social inequalities in health: public health, community health or health promotion?

While the Consortium on 'Community Health Promotion' is suggesting a definition of this new concept to qualify health practices, this article questions the relevance of introducing such a concept since no one has yet succeeded in really differentiating the three existing processes: public health, community health, and health promotion. Based on a literature review and an analysis of the range o...

ePsychology: Designing Theory-Based Health Promotion Interventions

Virtual Community Health Promotion

ESSAY Suggested citation for this article: Crespo R. Virtual community health promotion. Prev Chronic Dis [serial online]. 2007 Jul [date cited]. Available from: The " wiki " and open-source phenomena are transforming the way knowledge is generated and shared around the world. The word wiki is from the Hawaiian term wiki-wiki, which means to do something quickly (1). The term became prominent b...

Towards evidence-based, quality-controlled health promotion: the Dutch recognition system for health promotion interventions

Registration or recognition systems for best-practice health promotion interventions may contribute to better quality assurance and control in health promotion practice. In the Netherlands, such a system has been developed and is being implemented aiming to provide policy makers and professionals with more information on the quality and effectiveness of available health promotion interventions ...