conclusions female and older students are at higher risk of developing unhealthy lifestyle. consequently, healthcare providers, health instructors, schoolteachers, and families must pay more attention to these students. moreover, as most of lifelong healthy and unhealthy lifestyle habits are established during adolescence, developing effective health promotion and disease prevention strategies ...

having a positive approach toward the affairs also involves a comprehensive and systematic one in order to represent suitable solutions coincided with social realities. under the current situations, one of them is called social capital which is refered as missing link . although this term doesn’t have any background in social literature, but its importance and usage in almost any field of socia...

OBJECTIVE In 2003-2004 and 2007-2008, an initiative was implemented to improve client and provider knowledge and acceptance of no-scalpel vasectomy (NSV) in Ghana. METHODS At eight facilities, physicians were trained in NSV and staff received training in the provision of "male-friendly" services. Health promotion activities provided NSV information to prospective clients. Client-provider comm...

INTRODUCTION Recently, an increase has been observed in the number of patients suffering from diseases which are the consequence of an anti-health life style; therefore it is necessary to undertake proper actions in this area, including those addressed to hospital staff. OBJECTIVES 1) Comparison of self-reported state of health and life style between hospital staff in Sweden and Poland, and t...

BACKGROUND Worksite wellness initiatives for health promotion and health education have demonstrated effectiveness in improving employee health and wellness. We examined the effects of a multifaceted health promotion campaign on organizational capacity to meet requirements to become CEO Cancer Gold Standard Accredited. METHODS We conducted an online survey to assess perceived organizational v...

Policies to reform health care provision often combine the organizational restructuring of decentralization with ideological restructuring through a new model of health care that gives greater weight to prevention and promotion. Decentralization provides a discretionary space to the local health system to define and develop its own activities. The central policy aim to shift the model of health...

introduction: one of the managers' main concerns in maintaining and preserving human resources is developing job satisfaction. job satisfaction enhances the staff's productivity and efficiency. in this study, staff's job satisfaction in one of the largest training hospitals was investigated. methods and materials: it was a cross – sectional study in which 142 people working in different wards w...

BACKGROUND Few evaluations of school health programs measure academic outcomes. K-12 education needs evidence for academic achievement to implement school programs. This article presents a systematic review of the literature to examine evidence that school health programs aligned with the Coordinated School Health Program (CSHP) model improve academic success. METHODS A multidisciplinary pane...

This study aimed to develop a theoretical basis for the promotion of school staff's occupational well-being. The 'Content Model for the Promotion of School Community Staff's Occupational Well-being' describes the four aspects of the promotion of occupational well-being ('working conditions', 'worker and work', 'working community' and 'professional competence') as well as the functionality and s...