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Selected Topics - Health Promotion
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Global policies and related documents
Reports, guidelines and projects
- Evidence-based health promotion for children and adolescents in Stockholm county
"The purpose of this report is to give people working within health care, municipalities and voluntary organisation, as well as others who might be interested, an up-to-date account of the health status of children and adolescents and of useful methods for preventing ill-health and promoting health among children and adolescents in Stockholm county."
- Financing health promotion
“…Health promotion is a complex, multi-sector activity. Within the health system, it is organized vertically in the form of public health campaigns or integrated in other health care interactions. Furthermore, health promotion can be encouraged on the health care market, for example through the introduction of financial incentives. This paper advocates for health promotion in any form as a necessary intervention for improving and maintaining population health. It is considered equally relevant for developed and developing countries, although different countries may want to employ different strategies. While still under-funded in many high-income countries the lack of funding for health promotion is generally most notorious in middle and low-income countries. In many of the latter groups, health promotion is also not included in health system financing arrangements. This [2007] paper explores how health promotion can be integrated in health system financing schemes. The analysis departs from the health systems financing framework and is based on the health financing functions: revenue collection, pooling and purchasing. Examples from different countries are presented to illustrate a number of innovative financing options for health promotion…”.
- Health Canada, Environmental and Workplace Health
This site provides access to Canadian government workplace health strategies and programmes.
- Health Impact Assessment: A practical guide
The guide aims to provide people a practical understanding of HIA, its process, concepts and theories. “…Health Impact Assessment HIA is both a health protection and health promotion tool. In Health Impact Assessment HIA, health should be broadly defined to include assessments of both health hazards and health benefits of a proposal and the potential ways in which health and well-being can be both protected and promoted….”
- Polio Vaccines difficult to swallow: The story of a controversy in Northern Nigeria
This paper by Maryam Yahya of the Institute of Development Studies examines the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) controversy in Nigeria, where rumours that the vaccine was part of a Western tool to sterilise Muslims prompted a boycott of the vaccine by Muslim leaders. The paper examines the roles, responsibilities and actions of global and national actors in implementing effective immunisation campaigns, including the manner in which health care issues are prioritised, managed, and financed. The author identifies sustained communication as the centrepiece of a successful immunisation campaign, something which is often neglected in immunisation budgets.
- Radio Broadcasting for Health
"This paper provides an overview of the role radio broadcasting can play in promoting better health for poor people. It has been conceptualised within the context of global efforts to reduce the burden of disease and ill health on poor people and advocates a people-centred and rights-based approach to health."
- What is the evidence on school health promotion in improving or preventing disease and, specifically what is the effectiveness of the health promoting schools approach?
"This is a Health Evidence Network (HEN) synthesis report by Stewart-Brown seeking to determine the effectiveness of health promotion in schools and, more specifically, the effectiveness of the “health promoting schools” approach....The report shows that effectiveness of different types of programmes varies. School-based programmes that promote mental health, healthy eating and physical activity are amongst the most effective, while programmes on preventing substance use, and suicide are among the least effective of school health promotion programmes."
- WHO Health Promotion - Promoting Health
This site highlights the World Health Organization's health promotion efforts, outlining various projects and units promoting different aspects of health.
- Women-Friendly Workplace Campaign (USA)
Established by the National Organization for Women (USA) this campaign is working to end workplace discrimination and abuse and encouraging employers to adopt family friendly policies.
- Workplace Solutions (USA)
"A nonprofit consortium of professionals working in the field of conflict resolution and crisis management. Founded in the belief that collaborative problem solving and a team based proactive approach involving all stakeholders is essential in to ensuring employee health, workplace safety and business success."
- School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW
Educational resources
- Communication Impact!
Communication Impact provides access to brief reports on research findings and program innovations at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
- Cornell University Ergonomics Web
This site presents information from research studies and class work conducted by staff and students of the Cornell Human Factors and Ergonomics Research Group which focuses on ways to enhance usability by improving the ergonomic design of hardware, software, and workplaces, to enhance people's comfort, performance and health .
- Exchange
Exchange is a networking and learning programme that promotes effective health communication.
- Health Communication Research Laboratory
The Health Communication Research Laboratory at the Saint Louis University School of Public Health develops and tests printed materials and computer-based programs for health promotion and disease prevention.
- Health Literacy Improvement
Health Literacy is the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. This guide from the US Office for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion provides access to government resources, reports and research on the subject of health literacy.
- WHO Health Promotion
This page provides links to activities, reports, news and events a swell as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes working in health promotion.
- WHO Health Promotion Glossary
This document, published in 1998 by WHO provides a glossary of definitions of terms commonly used in the field of health promotion.
- "Who will keep Public Health Healthy?" : Educating Public Health Professionals in the 21st Century
2003 Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine. This report focuses on an ecological model of health delivery which assumes that health and well being are influenced by interaction among multiple determinants of health and that public health professionals receive education and training in a wide variety of disciplines, work in various settings and come from a range of professions
- Youth Peer Education Toolkit: Standards for Peer Education Programmes
This publication is a tool for managers to use to monitor and improve their program activities. Developed during a consultative meeting with peer educators, trainers, project managers, and technical experts from 22 countries, this tool provides a framework of standards for programs, as well as tips and examples from around the world.
- Youth Peer Education Toolkit: Theatre-Based Techniques for Peer Youth Education: A training manual
This training manual provides an overview of using theatre in health education. It contains four peer theatre training workshops, a series of theatre games and exercises that can be used in trainings, and information on developing and building a peer theatre program. A collaboration between the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Family Health International, this tool was produced for the Youth Peer Education Network (Y-PEER), a project coordinated by UNFPA.
Organisations and Networks
UN and multinational
- EuroHealthNet
The website of the European Network of Health Promotion Agencies, the aim of which is the facilitation of the health promotion priorities as set by the European Commission in the Programme of Community Action on Health Promotion, Information, Education and Training.
- European Network of Workplace Health Promotion (ENWHP)
The ENWHP promotes good practice in workplace health promotion and advocates the adoption of such practice in all European workplaces.
- Health Promotion Research Internet Network
This site, compiled by WHO Collaborating Centre on Supportive Environments for Health at the Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden provides links to health promotion research centres, schools of public health and other internet resources of interest to health promotion and public health practitioners.
Government
- Association of Ontario Health Centres
The activities of this centre support and promote the provision of community-based primary care, health promotion and illness prevention services , with a focus on consideration of the broader factors that determine health such as education, employment, income, social support, environment and housing.
- Health Promotion Online
This site provided by Health Canada contains links to health promotion resources and guides to aid health professionals and community leaders as well as to encourage Canadians to take an active role in improving their health.
- Health Promotion Agency (UK)
The Northern Ireland Health Promotion Agency works with policy makers at government level, those in statutory, voluntary, commercial and community sectors and individuals themselves to shift the emphasis of modern health services towards prevention, protection and education, to reduce the need for treatment or rehabilitation and improve overall quality of life.
- Office for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (USA)
The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion works to strengthen the disease prevention and health promotion priorities of the Department of Health and Human Services and it's agencies.
- VicHealth
The website of the Victorian Government Department of Health, Australia.
Non Government
- Australian Health Promotion Association
The Australian Health Promotion Association is the professional association specifically for people involved in the practice, research and study of health promotion.
- Australian Indigenous Health Promotion Network
The Australian Indigenous Health Promotion Knowledge Network (AIHKPN) provides access to the latest information in Indigenous health including employment, skills and educational development opportunities; conferences and publications.
- Communication Initiative Health Window
The Communication Initiative is a partnership of development organisations seeking to support advances in the effectiveness and scale of communication interventions for positive international development. The Health window provides a specific focus on information related to health and health communication on the CI site.
- Community Health Promotion Network Atlantic (Canada)
The Community Health Promotion Network Atlantic's role is to share health promotion information among individuals, groups and communities in the Atlantic provinces of Canada.
- European Health Psychology Society
The European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) is a professional organisation formed to promote empirical and theoretical research in and applications of health psychology within Europe as well as the interchange of information related to heath psychology with other associations throughout the world towards an international achievement of these aims.
- Health Promotion Career Network
Provides employment services for employers, professionals and student working in health promotion
- International Union for Health Promotion and Education
The mission of The International Union for Health Promotion and Education (the IUHPE) is to promote global health and to contribute to the achievement of equity in health between and within countries of the world.
- The Secretariat of the Pacific Community
An international organisation, the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) works in partnership with its members, other organisations and donors to deliver priority work programmes to member countries and territories. These programmes focus on social resources including public health, land resources and marine resources.
- Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (USA)
The Society's goal is to promote human welfare through the various applications of psychology to all types of organisations providing goods and services, such as manufacturing concerns, commercial enterprises, labour unions or trade associations, and public agencies.
- World Health Communication Associates
"The World Health Communication Associates (WHCA) works to improve health by helping public health advocates and organisations acquire the knowledge, savvy and resources to enable their messages to stand out and positively shape health choices, behaviours and perceptions in local, national and global information marketplaces. WHCA focuses exclusively on health and environmental issues and does no product promotion. The Associates are an independent network of active, strategically-placed communicators, with practical experience in health and environment reporting, investigative journalism, policy advocacy, intergovernmental and non-governmental public and press relations, international conference organisation and cross-border campaigning."
Academic Institutions with particular focus in this area
- School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW
- School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW - Research
- University of Toronto, Centre for Health Promotion
- Centre for Health Promotion and Prevention research
Located at the University of Texas, Houston
- Institute for Health Promotion Research
The IHPR, at the University of British Columbia seeks to bridge the University's research and educational programs across the behavioural, biomedical, educational, environmental and social sciences disciplines and to bring them into closer working relationships with community groups and agencies pursuing this vision of health.
- International Institute for Health Promotion
The International Institute for Health Promotion (IIHP) seeks effective solutions to challenges for the advancement and application of health promotion concepts, through the facilitation and development of collaborative strategies, research and education initiatives, and communication networks.
- Monash Health Promotion Unit
As part of the medical curriculum at Monash University Australia, The Health Promotion Unit seeks to link medicine and community health by providing a compulsory health promotion subject to all third year medical students of the University.
- Health Promotion Center
The Health Promotion Center at the University of California Irvine focuses on comprehensive, integrated approaches to health promotion, especially on workplace-based health promotion.
- Institute of Work, Health, and Organisations
This Institute at the University of Nottingham in the UK incorporates the Centre for Organisational Health and Development, a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre in Occupational Health, and the Centre for Health Services Management (CSHM)
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