Health promotion-who, us? Developing health promoting emergency departments
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Health promotion-who, us? Developing health promoting emergency departments.
This paper describes the initiation of Victoria's Health Promoting Emergency Departments (HPEDs) Program, involving seven of Melbourne's Emergency Departments (EDs). The Program aims to integrate health promotion into the function of EDs, to complement the clinical and curative emergency care that they already provide. A development phase identified the means of achieving this and involved esta...
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Since 1986, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been advocating for the health sector to move increasingly in a health promotion direction, beyond its responsibility for providing clinical and curative services (WHO, 1986). Some Emergency Departments (EDs) have partially achieved this through providing patient health information, screening and early intervention programs, injury prevention ...
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متن کاملa framework for health promoting emergency departments
background since 1986, the world health organization (who) has been motivating health sectors to promote clinical and curative services (who, 1986). some emergency departments (eds) have partially achieved this through providing patient health information, screening and early intervention programs, injury prevention, and asthma education. a significant organizational shift is required for eds t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Australian Health Review
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0156-5788
DOI: 10.1071/ah010039