All organisations have to change to meet challenges or take forward new opportunities. Health organisations are no different; all over the world they face pressures to buy and to provide care that is based on evidence of its effectiveness. This is not a new concept: it is what staff within those organisations have always considered themselves to be doing. What is new is the emphasis that is put...

Issue addressed: Mobile applications are increasingly being used in health promotion initiatives. Although there is evidence that developing these mobile health applications in multidisciplinary teams is good practice, there is a gap in the literature with respect to evaluation of the process of this partnership model and how best to disseminate the application into the community. The aim of th...

AIMS This study describes qualitatively ageing workers and their health promotion. It also describes quantitatively the importance of individual, workplace and occupational health promoting factors, the impact of health promotion and the contributions of the other co-partners promoting the health of ageing workers. These form the foundation for a model of health promotion. BACKGROUND Very lit...