Health Promotion in Practice

Investigating the Attitude of Families Residing in Qom towards the Health-Oriented TV/radio Programs and its Relationship with Their Health Practice in 2018

Background and Objectives: Health plays a key role in today's society and is considered the core of human development. It goes without saying that health is a matter of concern to all of us, and achieving and maintaining health requires the cooperation of all organs, including the mass media. With this background in mind, the current study aimed to assess the attitude of families residing in Qo...

Ethics in health promotion--reflections in practice.

Health promotion practitioners should be able to identify ethical dilemmas that are relevant to their practice and understand how to preclude and/or address such problems. This paper explores some of the broad ethical issues in health promotion practice; summarises some of the principles that require consideration; and outlines some of the recently developed ethical frameworks for public health...

The Effect of Breastfeeding Intervention on Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Among Mothers in the Third Trimester of Pregnancy: Application of the Transtheoretical Model

Background and Aim: The practice of breastfeeding among mothers is affected by their knowledge of, and attitude to, it. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of intervention, using the transtheoretical model (TTM), on the knowledge, attitude and practice of exclusive breastfeeding among pregnant women in the third trimester referred to Golestan University of Medical Sciences in ho...

Digital storytelling: an emergent method for health promotion research and practice.

The Red Lotus Health Promotion Model: a new model for holistic, ecological, salutogenic health promotion practice.

ISSUE ADDRESSED There is a need for a system of values and principles consistent with modern health promotion that enables practitioners to use these values and principles to understand health and in their needs assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation practice. METHOD Grounded theory, document analysis and the authors' own practice experience were used to systematically collect an...