Measuring health promotion activities of rural community pharmacy

Measuring health promotion activities of rural community pharmacy.

Dear Editor, Re: Journal Code AJR, Article No. 774 I was glad to see the role of pharmacists in health promotion getting its due attention from Sunderland et al. The authors correctly point out the unique ease of access provided by community pharmacy, and yet, the levels of reported advice were disappointingly low. I feel that the generalisability and validity of some findings need to be questi...

Financing Rural Public Health Activities in Prevention and Health Promotion

Community health workers in Lesotho: Experiences of health promotion activities

A community needs assessment for rural mental health promotion.

This paper describes the needs assessment phase of a mental health promotion programme for rural communities in Ireland. As part of a larger study encompassing four rural communities, a cross-sectional study of the mental health beliefs and perceptions of 1014 people was carried out. Employing a combination of interviewer-administered questionnaire and the vignette method, the needs assessment ...

Virtual Community Health Promotion

ESSAY Suggested citation for this article: Crespo R. Virtual community health promotion. Prev Chronic Dis [serial online]. 2007 Jul [date cited]. Available from: The " wiki " and open-source phenomena are transforming the way knowledge is generated and shared around the world. The word wiki is from the Hawaiian term wiki-wiki, which means to do something quickly (1). The term became prominent b...