Enabling healthy choices: is ICT the highway to health improvement?

Methodology Choices in Health Related ICT-Design

ICT-supported health promotion has diverse development challenges. Methodological selections guide the design and development of solutions and artefacts and are critical in area where utility and cost-effectiveness are required of applications and systems. The article gives an example of an ICT-project at the occupational health which methodological choices and framing was considered from view ...

Delivering London 2012: ICT enabling the Games

Early planning, a programme-wide approach, consideration of centralised procurement and analysis of all stakeholder requirements were key to delivering Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Security and Mechanical and Electrical (M&E) systems across multiple capital projects on a single campus. This enabled Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) delivered systems to be operationally effect...

Is man free to make choices for health?

This paper is reformatted and reprinted as part of the 40th Anniversary of the American Journal of Health Education. (originally School Health Review) Health Education – Our Heritage series. The original article appeared in the inaugural issue of School Health Review (Volume 1, September 1969, pp. 4-8). At the time, Joseph H. Douglass, Ph.D., was Chief, Interagency Liaison Branch, National Inst...

Healthy lifestyle choices: could sense of coherence aid health promotion?

BACKGROUND A research framework based on the personal characteristic defined by a sense of coherence (SOC) focuses on the effective use of resources to maintain good health. OBJECTIVES To test the hypothesis that individual differences in SOC are associated with healthier lifestyle choices independently of social class and education. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross sectional. Population based coho...

Alcohol Pricing, Public Health and the HST: Proposed Incentives for BC Drinkers to Make Healthy Choices