The assessment and promotion of childrens' healthful physical activity is important: (i) to combat the international obesity epidemic that extends to childhood; and (ii) to establish an early habit of lifestyle physical activity that can be sustained into adolescence and adulthood. The primary focus of both assessment and promotion efforts has been on in-school physical education classes and, t...

in this paper, genetic programming is applied for quality improvement of noisy speech signal. therefore, a system including both spectral subtraction and genetic programming is implemented for speech enhancement. in the proposed method, first noise is reduced by spectral subtraction. in the next step, genetic programming trees are trained for more enhancement of noisy signal by mapping the sign...

We propose a Hybrid Genetic Algorithm (HGA) for a combinatorial optimization problem, motivated by, and a simplification of, a TV Self-promotion Assignment Problem. The problem consists of, given the weekly self-promotion space (a set of TV breaks with known duration) and a set of products to promote, to assign the products to the breaks in the “best” possible way. The objective is to maximize ...

BACKGROUND With health care shifting away from the traditional sick care model, many hospitals are integrating fitness facilities and programs into their clinical services in order to support health promotion and disease prevention at the community level. Through a series of focus groups, the present study assessed characteristics of hospital-affiliated integrated facilities located in Northeas...

Canadian health promotion organizations currently face two pressures. First, is the desire of health promotion organizations to seek methods which will help achieve health promotion goals. Second, external funders are increasingly likely to require that health promotion organizations adopt ‘quality’ procedures, such as Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI). This paper explores a set of questions...

background: more than 8% of iran's populations are elderly. the greatest challenge in this generation is improvement of health and quality of life. so we decided to perform an interventional study with the aim of promoting the health of the eld­erly. methods: this study was a community interventional in ekbatan complex. subjects were elderly. at first, need assessment was done with the particip...

What does it mean to think about the ethics of health promotion? When most of us think ‘ethics’ we think of the Human Research Ethics Committee applications required for research projects. But I’m thinking of something quite different here: the ethics of health promotion practice. Health promotion ethics is an attempt to answer questions such as: Can we provide a moral justification for what we...