Although participation and empowerment are hallmarks of the WHO vision of health promotion, it is acknowledged that they are difficult to evaluate. Devising adequate study designs, indicators and methods for the assessment of participation and empowerment should consider the experiences, concerns and constraints of health promotion practitioners. The aim of this study was to investigate health ...

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~ *Unit for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Division of Health in the Community; tDepartment of Gastroenterology, Division of Medicine; Wepartment of Epidemiology, Division of Health in the Community; and §Department of Family Medicine, Division of Health in the Community, Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of the Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Shev...

The South African communities has shown to have a challenge in accessing health services especially in rural areas; hence the national strategic objective 1.7 aimed at strengthening community systems to expand access to services using the community-based care programmes (NSP 2012-2016). The programmes enhance access to health services whilst promoting health and educating the community to impro...

At the 2006 National Conference of the Australian Health Promotion, Māori academic and public health physician Dr Papaarangi Reid challenged us to critique our own practice and asked whether health promotion needs to be de-colonised. In this paper, one Indigenous and two non-Indigenous researchers working within the Aboriginal community controlled health sector reflect on ways in which research...

The citizens claim the right to get a high level access to the health services including the health promotion fields. The health professionals aim to prevent illnesses, to reduce morbidity and premature mortality and need to increase the community awareness on the fact that it is cheaper preventing than curing. In this view, addressing youngsters represents a powerful investment in the future a...

community  nutrition  can  be  defined  as  a coordinated set of actions and services helping people  to  choose  a  healthy  diet  in  terms  of nutritional value and food safety to meet  their physiological needs in any given social context. it encompasses a wide range of strategies and programs based on evidence generated through basic and epidemiological nutrition and food research. the ult...

maternity child health is one of the important and essential aspects of health services that must be considered as a priority in administrative programs because mothers and their children more than other people in the community are affected by perilous environmental factors. they are very vulnerable that lead to disease, failure to thrive, inability and death. every year, poor hygiene leads to ...

Indigenous Australians experience poor oral health. Oral health perceptions among a group of rural-dwelling Indigenous Australians were explored so that a culturally appropriate, community-owned oral health promotion initiative might be developed. Focus group methodology was used, with prompt questions including oral health knowledge, oral health's role in general health, how community oral hea...