HEALTH CARE AND HEALTH PROMOTION

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...

Health Services Research Fund – Health Care and Promotion Fund

Sau Po Centre on Ageing, The University of Hong Kong YH Cheng, KL Chou, I Chi Department of Community Medicine and Unit for Behavioural Sciences, The University of Hong Kong YH Cheng Department of Politics and Sociology, Lingnan University KL Chou Institute of Human Performance, The University of Hong Kong DJ MacFarlane School of Social Work and School of Gerontology, University of Southern Cal...

Health Services Research Fund – Health Care and Promotion Fund

Principal applicant and corresponding author: Dr LW Chu Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, 102 Pok Fu Lam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China Tel: ( 52) 2 55 3315 Fax: ( 52) 2 16 21 7 E-mail: [email protected] Falls and fall-related injuries in community-dwelling elderly persons in Hong Kong: a study on risk factors, functional decline, and health services utilisa...