OBJECTIVE To examine the development and implementation of a novel income security intervention in primary care. DESIGN A retrospective, descriptive chart review of all patients referred to the Income Security Heath Promotion service during the first year of the service (December 2013-December 2014). SETTING A multisite interdisciplinary primary care organisation in inner city Toronto, Cana...

the world was different when the ottawa charter for health promotion was released 30 years ago. concerns over the environment and what we now call the ‘social determinants of health’ were prominent in 1986. but the acceleration of ecological crises and economic inequalities since then, in a more complex and multi-polar world, pose dramatically new challenges for those committed to the original ...

background family-centered empowerment of drug and stimulant users is an effective program for a better response to treatment, prevention of treatment adverse effects, and promotion quality of life (qol) and lifestyle in the process of discontinuing drug abuse. objectives this study aimed to determine the effects of educational intervention, based on family-centered empowerment and pender's hea...

conclusions according to the results of the study, health-promoting model-based self-care behaviors can help identify and predict cardiac surgery patients’ lifestyles in iran. this pattern can be used as a framework for discharge planning and the implementation of educational interventions to improve the lifestyles of cabg patients. background advances in coronary artery surgery have reduced pa...

introduction: health promoting lifestyle is one of the determinants of health. university years are important phase of life when one can develop health promoting lifestyle. given the high cost of healthcare there is need of shift from a treatment based approach to a preventive approach in which appropriate methods should be developed to promote health and productivity among youth. objective: th...

background: unhealthy nutritional behaviors are a threat to adolescents. in this regard, we compared different training methods through a participatory interventional study. materials and methods: through proportional random selection, 1823 female students were selected from 15 middle schools of tehran. following 2 years of intervention, nutritional habits of three different interventional grou...

extract: most information about family assessment are gathered during home visits have many benefits. one of them is that information about structure and habits of families may be more real when you observe the house and around it to find supportive and obstacles for promotion of family health. in addition family members are often more comprehensive in their home and can better act for their ne...

background: health-promoting lifestyle is one of the determination criteria for health factors and the prevention of health-threatening factors. according to the available statistics, 53% of deaths are related to lifestyle. the aim of this study was to evaluate health-promoting lifestyles in medical students of rafsanjan university of medical sciences (rums), rafsanjan, iran. materials and meth...