Results of walking campaign industrial health promotion.

National level promotion of physical activity: results from England's ACTIVE for LIFE campaign.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of a national campaign on awareness of the campaign, change in knowledge of physical activity recommendations and self reported physical activity. DESIGN three year prospective longitudinal survey using a multi-stage, cluster random probability design to select participants. SETTING England. PARTICIPANTS A nationally representative sample of 3189 adult...

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...

Health Promotion: Results of focus groups with African-American men.

BACKGROUND: Almost half (49%) of the people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in the United States (US) are African-Americans. Although African-Americans represent only about 13% of the overall population, they continue to account for a higher proportion of cases at all stages of HIV/AIDS. Most documented interventions targeting the African-American population have focused on women, children, men who hav...

Health Education and Health Promotion

Assessment of periodontal knowledge following a mass media oral health promotion campaign: a population-based study

BACKGROUND Oral health promotion can be achieved through education using various approaches including mass media health education campaigns. Mass media campaigns might increase oral health knowledge and perhaps could lead to desired behaviour changes and prevention of oral diseases. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of a national television campaign on knowledge of periodontal heal...