Health Promotion and New Public Health. Healthy Cities Projects.

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

Public health issues---aspects of health promotion.

Healthy People 2000: national health promotion and disease prevention objectives (excerpts). US Public Health Service.

The US Public Health Service recently completed and published Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives. The report is the culmination of a national effort, representing the work of citizens, professionals, organizations, and communities, and the cooperation of numerous federal agencies. The overall goal of the report and its objectives are to prevent unne...

From healthy city projects to healthy cities

This paper discusses experience to date with the formulation and implementation of Healthy City projects in the South. After describing the origin of the Healthy Cities movement and what constitutes a Healthy City project, it reviews the experience of Healthy City initiatives in Fayoum (Egypt), Quetta (Pakistan) and Campinas (Brazil). It then discusses the roles of three critical stakeholders: ...