Research has been carried out into the educational and training innovations resulting from the current implementation of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) in institutions of higher education in order to understand how these innovations interrelate with teaching and learning; the implications at the institutional level; and the cross-cultural diversity within virtual learning environments, wi...

It is a descriptive-exploratory study with a qualitative approach that has the objective of analyzing the health promotion in training nurses. The setting of the research was two nursing undergraduate courses in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The results show that both schools used settings favorable to a health promotion approach in this training. They anchor this approach in the need to p...

Primary prevention and health promotion actions bring varied effects which do not always correspond to expectations of those who implement them. The source of that discrepancy might be seek in the diversification of people’s attitudes towards institutional actions aiming at the change of their behaviour. People’s attitudes towards primary prevention and health promotion institutional actions an...

BACKGROUND Research in the past decade has revealed average to poor menstrual health among many Iranian girls. The present study investigated the effectiveness of a health promotion project on improving menstrual health in adolescent girls in Iran. METHODS A quasi-experimental study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the health intervention program. A total of 698 students (study ...

INTRODUCTION Prevention is the most cost-effective approach to promote population health, yet little is known about the delivery of health promotion interventions in the nation's largest Medicaid program, Medi-Cal. The purpose of this study was to inventory health promotion interventions delivered through Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans; identify attributes of the interventions that plans judged to...

OBJECTIVE Evaluation of the effectiveness of a workplace health promotion program on employees' vitality, health, and work-related outcomes, and exploring the influence of organizational support and the supervisors' role on these outcomes. METHODS The 5-month intervention included activities at management, team, and individual level targeting self-management to perform healthy behaviors: a ki...

ISSUE ADDRESSED many good health promotion programs are implemented and evaluated but not published. The potential for the field to learn from these programs is therefore reduced. This article describes the design of an intervention to increase skills and confidence in writing for publication amongst health promotion practitioners in the Eastern Metropolitan Region (EMR) of Victoria. METHODS ...

BACKGROUND Use of technology is increasing in health promotion and has continued growth potential in intervention research. Guided by the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework, this paper reports on the adoption, reach, and implementation of Project HEAL (Health through Early Awareness and Learning)-a community-based implementation trial of a cancer...

OBJECTIVE [corrected] The main aim was to describe the issues and the participatory process required to design a Guide to promotemental health in prison through group activities. MATERIAL AND METHOD We reviewed the bibliography, the mental health policies, the workshops about healthy mental habits, and a video about protection and risk factors. We identified the stakeholders and sought their ...