Sustainable health behaviours and, specifically, eating a sustainable diet and engaging in regular physical activity are healthpromoting that can simultaneously contribute to reduction of greenhouse gases which known climate change. Good usually facilitates societal development, development often promotes improved health. However, while good may be prerequisite for some behavioural determinants...

Aim: This thesis aims to describe and analyse the concept of health-promoting leadership, including critical conditions for implementation and evaluation of such leadership. Methods: Three case studies and one conceptual analysis were conducted using qualitative methods, including interviews, observations and document analysis. The qualitative data material in study III was supplemented with qu...

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has a longstanding appreciation of the value of behavioral research. From the earliest days, when the concept of “coronary prone” behavior was introduced, to the growing recognition of the need for strategies to encourage healthpromoting behaviors and lifestyles, to more recent efforts to incorporate health-related quality of life measures i...

This study integrates two important developments, the concept of health lifestyles (which has focused on adults and adolescents) and the increased attention to early childhood. We introduce the concept of children's health lifestyles, identifying differences from adult health lifestyles and articulating intergenerational transmission and socialization processes shaping children's health lifesty...