Health promotion and health systems: some unfinished business

Health psychology and health promotion

Health psychology is the defined as studying of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. It contributes to is concerned with the understanding of how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute role to in physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly. For example, health is hurt by the chronically occurring environ...

Health Education and Health Promotion

Public health, innovation and intellectual property rights: unfinished business.

The context for this theme collection is the publication of the report of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health.1 The report of the Commission — instigated by WHO’s World Health Assembly in 2003 — was an attempt to gather all the stakeholders involved to analyse the relationship between intellectual property rights, innovation and public health, with a par...

Sweeping up health reform's piles of unfinished business.

Stress Managment and Health Promotion

Health promotion approach is utilized to address the prevention, management and early intervention for stress management and also to promote positive mental and psychological health. Stress affects everyone and must be managed effectively to reduce its chronic and deleterious effects this study consists of two sections: in first section the principals of health promotion in different human exis...