INTRODUCTION Workplace health promotion programs to prevent overweight and obesity in office-based employees should be evidence-based and comprehensive and should consider behavioral, social, organizational, and environmental factors. The objective of this study was to identify barriers to and enablers of physical activity and nutrition as well as intervention strategies for health promotion in...

Technical developments in information technologies coupled with business interests to improve promotion productivity, are spurring research in the area of information systems for sales promotion in retail industry, which facilitate promotion analysis and automate promotion implementation. Auto Promotion Machine (APM), presented in this paper, can perform promotion analysis based on consumer per...

BACKGROUND In order to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs), the World Health Organization recommends educating people on sexual health. With more than 2 billion active users worldwide, online social media potentially represent powerful channels for health promotion, including sexual health. OBJECTIVE To review the scientific literature on the use of online social media for sexual h...

This study explores whether exposure to advertisements that focus on the negative effects of tobacco industry advertising and promotion at the point of sale (anti-POS advertising) influence: (i) attitude toward POS advertising; (ii) perceived impact of POS advertising on youth smoking; and (iii) support for a ban on tobacco promotion at the POS among adult non-smokers in New York. Data are from...

The pandemic has highlighted the need for accessible and effective health promotion as Canadians are isolated from their communities during social distancing measures. A web-based program in which participants also received individualized email-based coaching medical students been available to empower veterans family members engage healthy lifestyle change.
 Health coaches’ email interacti...