Transforming Health Promotion Practice: Concepts, Issues and Applications

Transforming Ottawa Charter health promotion concepts into Swedish public health policy.

Swedish public health policy clearly illustrates how the concept of the Ottawa Charter for health promotion can be utilized at a national level. The impact has been more implicit than explicit. Public health has a long history in Sweden and much of the present and future is, and will be, linked to traditional values and structures. International input, however, has been essential to prompt new ...

Health Promotion in Practice

The increasing prevalence of chronic diseases has increased the global need for skilled health promotion professionals, and many professionals working in the field of health promotion lack some of the tools they need to apply in their practice. Health Promotion in Practice by Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin and Joan Arnold provides insight into the principles of health promotion and enables the reader t...

Issues in drug delivery: concepts and practice.

Understanding the transport and deposition of inhaled aerosols is of fundamental importance to inhalation therapy. Herein we address issues that affect drug delivery from experimental and theoretical perspectives. Accordingly, we shall limit our comments to a focused review of laboratory work (ie, an in vitro perspective) and the development of a computer-based 3-dimensional (3D) oral morpholog...

Medical Informatics: Concepts and Applications

Medical Informatics is a developing body of knowledge concerned with the use of information and communication technology in support of medical research, education and also for promoting health care delivery. The field focuses on the biomedical information, patient data, and also acquisition, storage, retrieval and optimal use of information for problem solving and decision making. The goal of m...

Public health issues---aspects of health promotion.