Background: Adolescents who have overweight and obesity face many physical and psychological problems and this condition may extend to adult life. The aim of this study was to compare factors related to health promotion lifestyle based on Pender Health Promotion Model (HPM) among high school students with and without overweight and obesity. Materials and MethodsThis was a comparativ...

Introduction: Oral health is a part of the general physical health. It is important to have healthy gums and teeth. Healthy teeth and gums are important for maintaining beauty and confidence, talking, chewing, and swallowing. The main strategy for preserving oral health is the implementation of health promotion interventions and various health education strategies, in accordance with the new le...

since, the nutritional behavior is a complicated process in which various factors play the role, this study aimed at specifying the effective factors in nutritional behavior of diabetic patients based on health promotion model. this paper reviews the published articles from 2000 to the beginning of 2012, using the various data banks and search engines such as pubmed, proquest, scopus,elsevier, ...

background: osteoporosis is one of the most common metabolic bone diseases. the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of a walking education program based on the health belief model (hbm) on osteoporosis among women.   material and methods in this quasi-experimental research design, 120 patients (60 experimental and 60 control),who were registered with the health centers in fasa ci...

background:osteoporosis is one of the most common metabolic bone diseases. the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of a walking education program based on the health belief model (hbm) on osteoporosis among women.   methods and material in this quasi-experimental research design, 120 patients (60 experimental and 60 control),who were registered with the health centers in fasa cit...

This paper uses data from a European health promotion evaluation study (MAREPS) to empirically test some fundamental assumptions of health promotion theory. Analysis shows that both the competence of individual actors and the opportunities provided for by health-promoting policies are significant predictors of participation in health promotion action. It also demonstrates effects of health prom...