Global health promotion and population health intervention research

population research center: application of research for community health promotion

the current challenge in health services research is disability to present comprehensive and effective intervention plans for community health promotion. there are numerous reasons in this regard, some of which can be overcome through performance-based participatory research methods. the population research center (prc) in tehran university of medical sciences (tums) provides the necessary grou...

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

Population health intervention research: advancing the field.

entire populations and to reduce health inequities.* It recognizes both health as a capacity or resource and the range of social, economic and environmental factors that contribute to it. A related articulation of health is “the capacity of people to adapt to, respond to, or control life’s challenges and changes”.1 In their seminal paper, Hawe and Potvin2 raise a cogent related question, “what ...

What is population health intervention research?

Population-level health interventions are policies or programs that shift the distribution of health risk by addressing the underlying social, economic and environmental conditions. These interventions might be programs or policies designed and developed in the health sector, but they are more likely to be in sectors elsewhere, such as education, housing or employment. Population health interve...