Engaging young people through photovoice in coastal resorts

Engaging youth through photovoice.

The photovoice process aims to use photographic images taken by persons with little money, power, or status to enhance community needs assessments, empower participants, and induce change by informing policy makers of community assets and deficits. This article describes a youth photovoice project implemented in an after-school program that attempted to adapt the photovoice method to youth part...

Engaging Young People in Resettlement

Engaging Young People who Offend

Engaging Elderly People in Telemedicine Through Gamification

BACKGROUND Telemedicine can alleviate the increasing demand for elderly care caused by the rapidly aging population. However, user adherence to technology in telemedicine interventions is low and decreases over time. Therefore, there is a need for methods to increase adherence, specifically of the elderly user. A strategy that has recently emerged to address this problem is gamification. It is ...

Engaging young people in the prevention of noncommunicable diseases

Editorials 484 Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are one of the biggest public health challenges of the 21st century. 1 The social and economic impact of NCDs are threatening progress towards sustainable development. NCDs are the leading causes of death, 2 causing 16 million premature deaths annually. 3 Four main groups of noncommunicable diseases – cardiovas-cular diseases, cancers, chronic resp...