Promoting and Sustaining Urban Health: Challenges and Responses

Health Promoting Schools in Iran: Features and Challenges

Background and Purpose: Looking at school as a place to improve the health of students, parents, teachers and school staff is a view that health promotion schools are seeking to achieve. This vision has been shaped internationally for many years, and each country has taken measures to achieve this, depending on its regional, cultural and institutional characteristics. In Iran, for eight years n...

Promoting and sustaining the health of the mind.

Igniting and Sustaining Global Recovery: Key Macroeconomic Management Challenges

 A global economic recovery is expected to be ignited in 2010 but this will be characterized by very different growth trajectories among advanced and emerging economies. The downside risks are formidable. Sustaining this recovery will require skillful macroeconomic management. Exit strategies for fiscal stimulus will need to be carefully timed and credible fiscal consolidation plans nee...

Challenges in sustaining public health interventions.

Sustainability remains a key challenge in public health. The perspective article by Fagen and Flay adds to our understanding of technical factors associated with sustaining health interventions in schools. In this commentary, the Fagen and Flay article (2009) is considered within the broader literature on sustainability. By taking a broad view, public health theory and practice might be advance...

Promoting and sustaining rural social innovation

Bringing together conclusions from previous studies of social innovation in rural, local, multistakeholder and welfare contexts, this study aims to further develop the scientific insights into the specific mechanisms of rural social innovation, based on a case study of the Swedish part of the European project “Social empowerment in rural areas” (SEMPRE). By analyzing its aims and activities, cr...