Health promotion campaigns.

Mass media antismoking campaigns: a powerful tool for health promotion.

Cigarette advertising and promotion have been shown to influence smoking in young persons, but the powerful effect of the mass media on behavior can also be used to promote health. Several states have earmarked a portion of their cigarette excise tax revenues to fund mass media antismoking campaigns, which have been effective in reducing cigarette consumption and in helping persons quit smoking...

Detecting Promotion Campaigns in Community Question Answering

With Community Question Answering (CQA) evolving into a quite popular method for information seeking and providing, it also becomes a target for spammers to disseminate promotion campaigns. Although there are a number of quality estimation efforts on the CQA platform, most of these works focus on identifying and reducing lowquality answers, which are mostly generated by impatient or inexperienc...

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...

Evaluation of nationwide health promotion campaigns in The Netherlands: an exploration of practices, wishes and opportunities.

Nationwide health promotion campaigns are an important part of government-funded health promotion efforts. Valid evaluation is important, but difficult because gold standard research designs are not applicable and the allocation of budget and time for evaluation is often very tight. In The Netherlands, Health Promotion Institutes (HPIs) are responsible for these campaigns. We conducted an explo...

Health Education and Health Promotion