conclusions educating health promotion strategies was effective in improving self-care self-efficacy in patients undergoing kidney transplantation. establishment of a holistic caring program is suggested to integrate the pre-transplantation educations with a continual post discharge follow-up. results in the intervention group, the mean of total self-care self-efficacy was 106.96 ± 25.1 at firs...

Many believe that the "next generation" of health promotion or health management programs will likely include a much more extensive alignment of environmental ['actors that support a healthy and productive workforce. To address this possibility, a model was conceptualized that integrates an environmentally-based intervention within a comprehensive health management effort. Intervention is dired...

OBJECTIVE This study investigates conceptualizations of disease prevention and health promotion (DPHP) among nurses from local public health organizations in Montréal, Québec. DESIGN AND SAMPLE A collaborative qualitative study was conducted among a purposive sample of 41 nurses. MEASURES Semi-structured interviews investigated two themes: meanings attributed to DPHP as well as nurses' rece...

Significant attention has been paid to the history of public health in England during the final part of the twentieth century. Within this, however, the field that came to be known as specialist health promotion (SHP) has been relatively neglected. Between 1980 and 2000 those working in this field, generally known as health promotion specialists (HPSs), enjoyed a relative rise in policy and pra...

1Medical Education Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IR Iran 2Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, IR Iran 3Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, IR Iran 4Medical Education Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medi...

This paper reports the outcome of the Galway Consensus Conference, an effort undertaken as a first step toward international collaboration on credentialing in health promotion and health education. Twenty-nine leading authorities in health promotion, health education, and public health convened a 2-day meeting in Galway, Ireland, during which the available evidence on credentialing in health pr...

The challenge of understanding what has happened in the 25 years since the Ottawa Charter would be difficult enough if there had been no Charter. However, our task is to interpret to what extent the Charter has influenced the world of health promotion as it is today. The task here is to consider what has happened regarding one action component of the Charter, notably developing personal skills....