Tekniikan kiivas kehitys eri toimialoilla johdattanut tilanteeseen, jossa yritysten ydinosaamisalueet ovat erikoistuneet voimakkaasti. Globalisaation seurauksena kilpailu yritysten kesken on voimistunut logististen rajoitusten hävittyä. Verkostoitumiskyky sekä yritysten muodostamien liiketoimintaverkostojen hallinta nousevat tärkeäksi osaksi yritysten liiketoimintastrategiaa ja kilpailukykyä. S...

BACKGROUND In countries such as Cyprus the financial crisis and the recession have severely affected the funding and priority setting of the health care system. There is evidence highlighting the importance of population' preferences in designing priorities for health care settings. Although public preferences have been thorough analysed in many countries, there is a research gap in terms of si...

In the twenty-first century, Japan will become an extremely aged society, where about one-quarter of the population is elderly [1]. To enable older people to achieve better health and fulfilling lives, the Ministry of Health and Welfare has introduced National Health Promotion (Active 80 Health Plan), which encourages a healthy life style and a sense that life is worth living (ikigai). Ikigai s...

Recent research indicates environmental factors and personal behaviors are related to breast cancer risk, but adopting a healthy lifestyle as early as adolescence can serve a protective function. To investigate perceptions of breast cancer risk and the environment, 10 focus groups (N = 91) were conducted with adolescent females (n = 55) and mothers (n = 36) across four counties in the Midwest, ...

Health promotion has a key role to play in preventing disease and promoting healthy lifestyles. Health promotion work is part science and part art. The science emerges from research and theory and the art emerges from our professional intuition and experience. The goal is to apply the science to achieve the best health promotion outcomes. However, an application of the theory, models and even t...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease (CVD) progression is modifiable through lifestyle behaviors. Community pharmacists are ideally placed to facilitate self-management of cardiovascular health however research shows varied pharmacist engagement in providing lifestyle advice. OBJECTIVE This study explored community pharmacists' experiences and perceptions of providing lifestyle advice to patient...

health lifestyle is known pattern of collective behaviors that engage in risky health problems and their causes and reasons of health to ensure. accomplished explanations mainly have considered on determinatives such as structural and social factors individual choices. this survey, as a similar approach, focused on discovers the capital causes that influencing on individual choices, which affec...

patients and methods in the double-blind placebo study, 33 obese children with nafld from 2008 to 2009 were included. lifestyle intervention (balanced calorie diet, 1300-1800 kcal/d and physical activity) was prescribed to all. the patients were concurrently randomized to receive vitamin e 400 mg/d (n = 17)] or placebo (n = 16). results at the end of six months of therapy there was significant ...

background: parents and teachers involvement reinforce health promotion programs for children's health. objectives: the purpose of this study was to evaluate mothers’ lifestyle behavior and its association with children's oral health. materials and methods: the study was a cross sectional study on 383 children and their mothers who were selected from 6 primary schools in tehran, iran. mothers a...

for over two decades, the ‘information revolution’ in the middleeast has been framed overwhelmingly in terms of media, more of it,and in comparisons to mass media – from the advent of any-to-anycommunication to ad hoc conceptualizations such as ‘crowd-sourcing’ or‘citizen journalism’ – that register the multiplication of voices, channelsand eroding boundaries in spheres of communication. the re...