Health promotion innovation in primary health care

Health Promotion in a Primary Health Care Setting

Primary care practitioners are ideally situated to carry out health promotion activities. Neural tube defects are of a fairly low incidence, but the consequences are tragic. They range from life long physical and often intellectual disabilities, to death at birth. Increased folate intake, either through eating folate rich foods or through supplementation, has been shown to reduce the incidence ...

Integrating primary mental health care and mental health promotion.

Innovation in Rehabilitation Services and Clinical Programs for Health Care

Rehabilitation program is a critical piece of clinical care strategy in order to accelerate healing and improve quality of life to the fullest extent possible. An innovated program should have 3 inspiring concepts: Seek inspire and Advance. Seeking and evaluating is a breakthrough technology, innovative methodology and emerging trend in the healthcare industry. The program should inspire clinic...

Health communication in primary health care -A case study of ICT development for health promotion

BACKGROUND Developing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) supported health communication in PHC could contribute to increased health literacy and empowerment, which are foundations for enabling people to increase control over their health, as a way to reduce increasing lifestyle related ill health. However, to increase the likelihood of success of implementing ICT supported health co...

Physical activity promotion through primary health care in England.

BACKGROUND There is increasing research supporting the argument for a beneficial link between physical activity and health maintenance and, in the past five years, this has led to a growth in physical activity promotion schemes involving primary health care. AIM To document and critically examine the extent and nature of physical activity promotion in general practice in England. METHOD A p...