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Selected Topics - Health Promotion
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Reports, guidelines and projects
- Criteria for the systematic review of health promotion and public health interventions
Systematic reviews of public health interventions are fraught with challenges. Complexity is inherent; this may be due to multi-component interventions, diverse study populations, multiple outcomes measured, mixed study designs utilized and the effect of context on intervention design, implementation and effectiveness. For policy makers and practitioners to use systematic reviews to implement effective public health programmes, systematic reviews must include this information, which seeks to answer the questions posed by decision makers, including recipients of programmes. This necessitates expanding the traditional evaluation of evidence to incorporate the assessment of theory, integrity of interventions, context and sustainability of the interventions and outcomes. Unfortunately however, the critical information required for judging both the quality of a public health intervention and whether or not an intervention is worthwhile or replicable is missing from most public health intervention studies. When the raw material is not available in primary studies the systematic review process becomes even more challenging. Systematic reviews, which highlight these critical gaps, may act to encourage better reporting in primary studies. This paper provides recommendations to reviewers on the issues to address within a public health systematic review and, indirectly, provides advice to researchers on the reporting requirements of primary studies for the production of high quality systematic reviews. [author abstract] [Health Promotion International 2005 20(4): 367-374]
- Evidence-based health promotion for children and adolescents in Stockholm county
"The purpose of this report is to give people working within health care, municipalities and voluntary organisation, as well as others who might be interested, an up-to-date account of the health status of children and adolescents and of useful methods for preventing ill-health and promoting health among children and adolescents in Stockholm county."
- Financing health promotion
"Health promotion is a complex, multi-sector activity. Within the health system, it is organized vertically in the form of public health campaigns or integrated in other health care interactions. Furthermore, health promotion can be encouraged on the health care market, for example through the introduction of financial incentives. This paper advocates for health promotion in any form as a necessary intervention for improving and maintaining population health. It is considered equally relevant for developed and developing countries, although different countries may want to employ different strategies. While still under-funded in many high-income countries the lack of funding for health promotion is generally most notorious in middle and low-income countries. In many of the latter groups, health promotion is also not included in health system financing arrangements. This [2007] paper explores how health promotion can be integrated in health system financing schemes. The analysis departs from the health systems financing framework and is based on the health financing functions: revenue collection, pooling and purchasing. Examples from different countries are presented to illustrate a number of innovative financing options for health promotion."
- Guide to Develop a Health Promotion Policy and compendium of policies
"This guide is comprised of six sections: 1. A summary of the standard and substandards of the health promotion policy issued by the International HPH Network; 2. A presentation of types of HPH organizational approaches; 3. Recommendations on the content of a health promotion policy – this section includes a checklist to help institutions ensure their policy is in accordance with the HPH concept; 4. The main benchmarks in the policy development process in terms of ownership by the institution's various departments; 5. A description of the support provided by the Agence as regional coordinator of the member institutions that must develop a health promotion policy; [and] 6. Examples of health promotion policies adopted by member institutions of the HPH network in Montreal and other regions of the world." [Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de Montréal, 2009]
- Guidelines for Systematic Reviews in Health Promotion and Public Health
This handbook, funded by a grant from the Australian Government Public Health Education and Research Program (PHERP), provides a working framework to conduct a systematic review of a health promotion or public health intervention. The purpose of this handbook is to describe the steps of the systematic review process and provide some working examples to practice prior to commencing a review. The handbook, however, is not intended to be used as a single resource for conducting reviews.
- Health Canada, Environmental and Workplace Health
This site provides access to Canadian government workplace health strategies and programmes.
- Health Impact Assessment: A practical guide
The guide aims to provide people a practical understanding of HIA, its process, concepts and theories. "Health Impact Assessment HIA is both a health protection and health promotion tool. In Health Impact Assessment HIA, health should be broadly defined to include assessments of both health hazards and health benefits of a proposal and the potential ways in which health and well-being can be both protected and promoted."
- Health Promotion – achieving good health for all
"The purpose of this report is to discuss the main challenges and identify strategies to boost health promotion and thus also improve public health. It is decisive for the life and health of individuals and for society’s ability to maintain a sustainable welfare state that the challenges are met with knowledge-based, target-oriented measures. This report is intended primarily for decision-makers, managers and employees in the health and care sector and in other sectors of society. The report will also be useful to other people, including journalists, researchers and educators." [Director General Bjørn-Inge Larsen, Norwegian Directorate of Health, October 2010 (IS-1846 E)]
- Health promotion for older people in the Czech Republic in a European perspective
This article describes health promotion for older people in the Czech Republic from the European perspective1. It is based on findings from the European project healthPROelderly. Implementation of health promotion in the Czech republic [sic] as a new public health concept is outlined from the historical point of view. Structures and processes of health promotion in the Czech Republic are described in the context of social policy, demography and health. The European project healthPROelderly is presented and the outcomes of an international literature search statistically analysed. Participating countries were divided into three macro-regions according to their geographical location and political and historical tradition – Mediterranean, West-European and formerly East-European macro-regions. The outcome of correspondence analysis partially confirms the hypothesis on the cultural background of the health promotion activities and strategies. Concerning themes addressed by health promotion projects most countries belonging to the Mediterranean or “Western European” macro-regions have concentrated on similar themes whereas this is not valid for the countries of the “Former Eastern European” macro-region. The hypothesis on macro-regional similarities in relation to settings of health promotion projects was not confirmed. In the conclusions the location of the Czech Republic in an international perspective is discussed and three Czech selected best practice projects are evaluated in relation to the statistical findings. [author summary] [Cent Eur J Public Health 2010; 18 (2): 63–69]
- Polio Vaccines difficult to swallow: The story of a controversy in Northern Nigeria
This paper by Maryam Yahya of the Institute of Development Studies examines the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) controversy in Nigeria, where rumours that the vaccine was part of a Western tool to sterilise Muslims prompted a boycott of the vaccine by Muslim leaders. The paper examines the roles, responsibilities and actions of global and national actors in implementing effective immunisation campaigns, including the manner in which health care issues are prioritised, managed, and financed. The author identifies sustained communication as the centrepiece of a successful immunisation campaign, something which is often neglected in immunisation budgets.
- Public attitudes to health promotion and disease prevention: A Report for the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation [Australia]
"This report presents findings from research commissioned by VicHealth aimed at better understanding community knowledge of, attitudes towards, and support for, health promotion and disease prevention." [The Social Research Centre, March 2007]
- Radio Broadcasting for Health
"This paper provides an overview of the role radio broadcasting can play in promoting better health for poor people. It has been conceptualised within the context of global efforts to reduce the burden of disease and ill health on poor people and advocates a people-centred and rights-based approach to health."
- Systematic Reviews of Health Promotion and Public Health interventions
"These guidelines complement Sections 3 to 11 of the Cochrane Reviewers’ Handbook. The content has been prepared by health promotion and public health researchers, decision-makers and practitioners experienced with both the use and conduct of systematic reviews. While these guidelines were originally developed to support the conduct of systematic reviews, they are also important for the conduct of primary research and for more informal reviews of research evidence. Many of the topics may not be unique to health promotion and public health reviews, but they are issues that are important in enabling research to be used in public health policy and practice decision making."
- What is the evidence on school health promotion in improving or preventing disease and, specifically what is the effectiveness of the health promoting schools approach?
"This is a Health Evidence Network (HEN) synthesis report by Stewart-Brown seeking to determine the effectiveness of health promotion in schools and, more specifically, the effectiveness of the 'health promoting schools' approach... The report shows that effectiveness of different types of programmes varies. School-based programmes that promote mental health, healthy eating and physical activity are amongst the most effective, while programmes on preventing substance use, and suicide are among the least effective of school health promotion programmes."
- WHO Health Promotion - Promoting Health
This site highlights the World Health Organization's health promotion efforts, outlining various projects and units promoting different aspects of health.
- Women-Friendly Workplace Campaign (USA)
Established by the National Organization for Women (USA) this campaign is working to end workplace discrimination and abuse and encouraging employers to adopt family friendly policies.
- Workplace Solutions (USA)
"A nonprofit consortium of professionals working in the field of conflict resolution and crisis management. Founded in the belief that collaborative problem solving and a team based proactive approach involving all stakeholders is essential in to ensuring employee health, workplace safety and business success."
Educational resources
- Communication Impact!
Communication Impact provides access to brief reports on research findings and program innovations at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
- Cornell University Ergonomics Web
This site presents information from research studies and class work conducted by staff and students of the Cornell Human Factors and Ergonomics Research Group which focuses on ways to enhance usability by improving the ergonomic design of hardware, software, and workplaces, to enhance people's comfort, performance and health .
- Exchange
Exchange is a networking and learning programme that promotes effective health communication.
- Health Communication Research Laboratory
The Health Communication Research Laboratory at the Saint Louis University School of Public Health develops and tests printed materials and computer-based programs for health promotion and disease prevention.
- Health Literacy Improvement
Health Literacy is the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. This guide from the US Office for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion provides access to government resources, reports and research on the subject of health literacy.
- Systematic reviews of health promotion and public health interventions – "Train the Trainer"
"This training handbook describes the steps of the systematic review process and provides additional teaching instructions… This handbook/workshop is useful for both Cochrane reviewers and reviewers who are completing a systematic review for their workplace, studies, etc."
- The Canadian Best Practices Portal for Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention
The primary goals of the Canadian Best Practices Portal are to: 1) Develop and disseminate best practices information for chronic disease prevention and control interventions; 2) Provide decision makers with a comprehensive and standardized resource about best practices for chronic disease prevention and control; and 3) Create awareness of the overall Canadian Best Practices System through communication and marketing activities targeted to key audience: decision makers in practice, decision makers in policy development, decision makers in research.
- WHO Health Promotion
This page provides links to activities, reports, news and events a swell as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes working in health promotion.
- WHO Health Promotion Glossary
This document, published in 1998 by WHO provides a glossary of definitions of terms commonly used in the field of health promotion.
- "Who will keep Public Health Healthy?" : Educating Public Health Professionals in the 21st Century
2003 Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine. This report focuses on an ecological model of health delivery which assumes that health and well being are influenced by interaction among multiple determinants of health and that public health professionals receive education and training in a wide variety of disciplines, work in various settings and come from a range of professions
- Youth Peer Education Toolkit: Standards for Peer Education Programmes
This publication is a tool for managers to use to monitor and improve their program activities. Developed during a consultative meeting with peer educators, trainers, project managers, and technical experts from 22 countries, this tool provides a framework of standards for programs, as well as tips and examples from around the world.
- Youth Peer Education Toolkit: Theatre-Based Techniques for Peer Youth Education: A training manual
This training manual provides an overview of using theatre in health education. It contains four peer theatre training workshops, a series of theatre games and exercises that can be used in trainings, and information on developing and building a peer theatre program. A collaboration between the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Family Health International, this tool was produced for the Youth Peer Education Network (Y-PEER), a project coordinated by UNFPA.
Organisations and Networks
UN and multinational
- EuroHealthNet
The website of the European Network of Health Promotion Agencies, the aim of which is the facilitation of the health promotion priorities as set by the European Commission in the Programme of Community Action on Health Promotion, Information, Education and Training.
- European Network of Workplace Health Promotion (ENWHP)
The ENWHP promotes good practice in workplace health promotion and advocates the adoption of such practice in all European workplaces.
- Health Promotion Research Internet Network
This site, compiled by WHO Collaborating Centre on Supportive Environments for Health at the Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden provides links to health promotion research centres, schools of public health and other internet resources of interest to health promotion and public health practitioners.
Government
- Association of Ontario Health Centres
The activities of this centre support and promote the provision of community-based primary care, health promotion and illness prevention services , with a focus on consideration of the broader factors that determine health such as education, employment, income, social support, environment and housing.
- Health Promotion Online
This site provided by Health Canada contains links to health promotion resources and guides to aid health professionals and community leaders as well as to encourage Canadians to take an active role in improving their health.
- Health Promotion Agency (UK)
The Northern Ireland Health Promotion Agency works with policy makers at government level, those in statutory, voluntary, commercial and community sectors and individuals themselves to shift the emphasis of modern health services towards prevention, protection and education, to reduce the need for treatment or rehabilitation and improve overall quality of life.
- Office for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (USA)
The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion works to strengthen the disease prevention and health promotion priorities of the Department of Health and Human Services and it's agencies.
- VicHealth
The website of the Victorian Government Department of Health, Australia.
Non Government
- Australian Health Promotion Association
The Australian Health Promotion Association is the professional association specifically for people involved in the practice, research and study of health promotion.
- Australian Indigenous Health Promotion Network
The Australian Indigenous Health Promotion Knowledge Network (AIHKPN) provides access to the latest information in Indigenous health including employment, skills and educational development opportunities; conferences and publications.
- Communication Initiative Health Window
The Communication Initiative is a partnership of development organisations seeking to support advances in the effectiveness and scale of communication interventions for positive international development. The Health window provides a specific focus on information related to health and health communication on the CI site.
- Community Health Promotion Network Atlantic (Canada)
The Community Health Promotion Network Atlantic's role is to share health promotion information among individuals, groups and communities in the Atlantic provinces of Canada.
- European Health Psychology Society
The European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) is a professional organisation formed to promote empirical and theoretical research in and applications of health psychology within Europe as well as the interchange of information related to heath psychology with other associations throughout the world towards an international achievement of these aims.
- Health Promotion Career Network
Provides employment services for employers, professionals and student working in health promotion
- International Union for Health Promotion and Education
The mission of The International Union for Health Promotion and Education (the IUHPE) is to promote global health and to contribute to the achievement of equity in health between and within countries of the world.
- The Secretariat of the Pacific Community
An international organisation, the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) works in partnership with its members, other organisations and donors to deliver priority work programmes to member countries and territories. These programmes focus on social resources including public health, land resources and marine resources.
- Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (USA)
The Society's goal is to promote human welfare through the various applications of psychology to all types of organisations providing goods and services, such as manufacturing concerns, commercial enterprises, labour unions or trade associations, and public agencies.
- World Health Communication Associates
"The World Health Communication Associates (WHCA) works to improve health by helping public health advocates and organisations acquire the knowledge, savvy and resources to enable their messages to stand out and positively shape health choices, behaviours and perceptions in local, national and global information marketplaces. WHCA focuses exclusively on health and environmental issues and does no product promotion. The Associates are an independent network of active, strategically-placed communicators, with practical experience in health and environment reporting, investigative journalism, policy advocacy, intergovernmental and non-governmental public and press relations, international conference organisation and cross-border campaigning."
Academic Institutions with particular focus in this area
- School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW
- School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW - Research
- University of Toronto, Centre for Health Promotion
- Centre for Health Promotion and Prevention Research
Located at the University of Texas, Houston
- Institute for Health Promotion Research
The IHPR, at the University of British Columbia, seeks to bridge the University's research and educational programs across the behavioural, biomedical, educational, environmental and social sciences disciplines and to bring them into closer working relationships with community groups and agencies pursuing this vision of health.
- International Institute for Health Promotion
The International Institute for Health Promotion (IIHP) seeks effective solutions to challenges for the advancement and application of health promotion concepts, through the facilitation and development of collaborative strategies, research and education initiatives, and communication networks.
- Monash Health Promotion Unit
As part of the medical curriculum at Monash University Australia, The Health Promotion Unit seeks to link medicine and community health by providing a compulsory health promotion subject to all third year medical students of the University.
- Institute of Work, Health, and Organisations
This Institute at the University of Nottingham in the UK incorporates the Centre for Organisational Health and Development, a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre in Occupational Health, and the Centre for Health Services Management (CSHM)
Key Conferences, conference and workshop reports
Conference reports
- Australian Health Promotion Association 15th National Conference
At this conference held in March 2005 speakers reflected on twenty years of the Ottawa Charter, describing health promotion successes, what has been learned (or should have learned) from failures, and what still needs to be done to achieve the best results in health promotion practice
- Conference Report: Global Health and Foreign Policy: Scope for Australian Engagement?
Conference speakers and delegates focused on issues of social justice, equity, development and conflict prevention rather than the '"war on terror".
Journals, Newsletters, Forums
Bibliographies, Libraries
Public health bookshops
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