In 1986, the Ottawa Charter identified community empowerment as being a central theme of health promotion discourse. Community empowerment became a topical issue in the health promotion literature soon afterwards, though its roots also come from earlier literature in community psychology, community organizing and liberation education. Subsequent international conferences to address health promo...

Although evidence from scientific evaluations of health promotion programs has demonstrated improvements in selected health outcomes, the relationship between participation in health programs and definitive economic returns in medical cost savings has been more difficult to establish. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of employee participation in health promotion programs with...

To cite this article: Claire V. Crooks, Dawn Burleigh, Angela Snowshoe, Andrea Lapp, Ray Hughes & Ashley Sisco (2015): A case study of culturally relevant school-based programming for First Nations youth: improved relationships, confidence and leadership, and school success, Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, DOI: 10.1080/1754730X.2015.1064775 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org...

Research questions: What are the current conceptualizations of health literacy, and what strategies are Canadian health librarians in public, academic, and hospital libraries enacting to put health literacy promotion into practice? Data sources: Serving as the basis of this scoping review, library and information science, health sciences, and interdisciplinary databases were searched using key ...

This paper describes an approach to providing object persistence in object-oriented programming languages without modifying the run-time system or the language itself. By successively applying design patterns such as the Serializer, Factory Method, and Strategy patterns we develop an object-oriented framework for providing object persistence. The advantages of object-orientation are highlighted...

This paper describes an approach to providing object persistence in object-oriented programming languages without modifying the run-time system or the language itself. By successively applying design patterns such as the Serializer, Factory Method, and Strategy patterns we develop an object-oriented framework for providing object persistence. The advantages of object-orientation are highlighted...

Through well-planned health promotion and education programming, federally funded projects are often leaders in the development and implementation of sound public health practices. In public health practice, program evaluations are used to 1) determine whether program objectives related to health status have been achieved, 2) improve program implementation, 3) increase community support, 4) con...

BACKGROUND Insufficient attention has been paid to the process of conducting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's School Health Index (SHI) to promote collaboration between universities and urban school districts when developing adolescent health promotion initiatives. This article provides an overview of the real-world contextual challenges and opportunities this type of collaborat...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the utility of linking systems between public health resource and user organizations for health promotion dissemination and capacity building, and to identify factors related to the success of linking systems. The design is a parallel-case study using key informant interviews and content analysis of project reports (synthesized qualitative and quantitativ...

In 1983, the 217 hospitals of the Michigan Hospital Association (MHA) were surveyed to learn more about their efforts in health promotion programming. Eighty percent (174 hospitals) responded to the survey, with 48% reporting on 532 programs. Those programs included 216 in health promotion as defined by the survey instructions, 110 in disease management, 66 in first aid and safety, 87 screening...