OBJECTIVES Meditation is a stress reduction intervention that is of potential benefit to patients with cardiovascular disease, but its interest in inner city cardiology patients is unknown. We surveyed patients at an inner city cardiology clinic about their interest in learning meditation and the impact of stress on their lifestyles. METHODS A survey was distributed to 215 consecutive patient...

Liverpool City Council and Health Authorities recently launched their City Health Plan, a five-year strategy to improve health and well-being in Liverpool, building on the foundations of the WHO Healthy Cities initiative. This strategy addresses the following key areas: housing for health, poverty and unemployment and health, health and the environment, health action for children and young peop...

OBJECTIVES The main objective of the study is to analyze whether students of Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) of Badajoz city known foods that are part of a healthy breakfast. It also intends to see the relationship of this knowledge with lifestyle habits and academic performance. MATERIALS AND METHOD A representative sample of 1197 secondary students in the city of Badajoz (Spain) (50.1%...

Healthy urban planning means planning for people. Healthy urban planning – a WHO guide to planning for people (Spon Press, 2000) introduced the concept and principles of healthy urban planning. This book describes the efforts of a group of cities in the WHO European Healthy Cities Network to introduce health in their urban planning practices. Six city case studies covering a wide range of appro...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The occurrence and progress of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is associated with unhealthy lifestyles and behaviors. Modification of barriers to healthy lifestyle can produce great benefits. The objective of this study was to identify barriers to physical activity and healthy eating among patients attending primary health care clinics in Riyadh city. PATIEN...

In 2009, the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, experienced a six-week labor disruption involving 24,000 city workers that included solid waste and public health employees. In an attempt to control illegal dumping and to manage garbage storage across the city during this period, 24 temporary garbage storage sites were established by the city (mostly in local parks) for residents to dispose of th...

AIM To develop a method that Croatian cities could use in the development of the City Health Profile and City Health Plan. The assessment concerned cities that have recently experienced the war and thus the method had to be rapid, cheap, scientifically based, sensitive, participative (involving politicians, experts, and citizens), able to produce immediate action, and to sustain the gained bene...

Antimicrobial-resistant pathogenic members of the Enterobacteriaceae are a well-defined global problem. We hypothesized that one of the main reservoirs of dissemination of antimicrobial resistance genes in Vietnam is non-pathogenic intestinal flora, and sought to isolate antimicrobial-resistant organisms from hospitalized patients and non-hospitalized healthy individuals in Ho Chi Minh City. Th...

The aim of this research is to examine the concept a healthy living culture that exists in Semarang city community management tuberculosis. forms management, strengthening aspects public education build awareness (living clean environment, not smoking, exercising enough, eating enough fruits and vegetables), eliminating negative stigma against people with carried out by City form 1). Implement ...