Studies of health providers suggest that satisfaction with life is related to their values and sense of purpose which is best achieved when their professional role is in harmony with personal philosophy. Cross-sectional surveys suggest that personal health beliefs and practices of health professionals influence their clinical counseling practices. However, little is known about the influence of...

BACKGROUND Sustainability is the core of a successful health-related intervention program. This study was conducted to evaluate the sustainability of interventions of the Heart Health Promotion from Childhood (HHPC) project, one of the 10 interventional projects of the Isfahan Healthy Heart Program. METHODS The evaluation of HHPC included administrating surveys to 500 elementary and middle, a...

The article describes the theoretical and practical need for the development of the concept of assistance to health protection of the individual in order to address the problem of health protection of students and teachers in the conditions of a higher pedagogical education. The problem of studying human health, its entirety, systemacity and connection with the environment attracts particular a...

The Human Health Program at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, is an undergraduate curriculum that focuses on health in its broadest context, exploring novel strategies that educate, engage, empower, and encourage college students to develop and sustain healthy lifestyle behaviors. In the program, students take part in a onesemester experience that is a blend of academic health education and w...

the aim of present study was to investigate the relation between the perception of population on healthy diet and lifestyle related behaviors.as part of national study on iranian health perception, a cross-sectional study was carried out in iran, 2010. a multistage sampling approach was applied to include a representative sample of population aged between 18 and 65 in the study. to collect data...

background: physicians are one of the most important groups directly associated with public health and their health related lifestyle has a significant impact on their patient’s behaviors. several studies showed that the majority of medical students did not have appropriate and healthy behaviors. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of risky lifestyle knowledge and behaviors am...

Many diseases and health risks are the result of unhealthy lifestyles and technology could be used as an intervention. However, designing healthy lifestyle technologies is challenging, as the technology should be able to influence user behavior. In this case study, the design and evaluation process of a persuasive healthy lifestyle assistance technology was investigated. The iterative design an...