A Public Health and System Approach to Health Protection and Health Promotion in Hong Kong

2005 ◽  
pp. 196-214
Author(s):  
Sophia Chan ◽  
Gabriel Leung
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
System Approach ◽  
Health Protection

scholarly journals A Salutogenic Approach to Disaster Recovery: The Case of the Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 1463
Author(s):  
Mélissa Généreux ◽  
Mathieu Roy ◽  
Tracey O’Sullivan ◽  
Danielle Maltais
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Recovery ◽  
Community Assets ◽  
Challenging Situation ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

In July 2013, a train carrying crude oil derailed in Lac-Mégantic (Canada). This disaster provoked a major fire, 47 deaths, the destruction of 44 buildings, a massive evacuation, and an unparalleled oil spill. Since 2013, Public Health has undertaken several actions to address this challenging situation, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Community-based surveys were conducted in Lac-Mégantic in 2014, 2015 and 2018. The first two surveys showed persistent and widespread health needs. Inspired by a salutogenic approach, Public Health has shifted its focus from health protection to health promotion. In 2016, a Day of Reflection was organized during which a map of community assets and an action plan for the community recovery were co-constructed with local stakeholders. The creation of an Outreach Team is an important outcome of this collective reflection. This team aims to enhance resilience and adaptive capacity. Several promising initiatives arose from the action plan—all of which greatly contributed to mobilize the community. Interestingly, the 2018 survey suggests that the situation is now evolving positively. This case study stresses the importance of recognizing community members as assets, rather than victims, and seeking a better balance between health protection and health promotion approaches.

Insider Activists and Secondhand Smoke Countermeasures in Japan

Asian Survey ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Celeste L. Arrington
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Secondhand Smoke ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
Policy Entrepreneurship ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Public Health Protection

Long considered a smoker’s paradise, Japan passed its strictest regulations yet on indoor smoking in 2018 with revisions to the Health Promotion Law and a new ordinance in Tokyo. Timed for the Tokyo Olympics, both reforms made smoking regulations stronger and more legalistic despite reflecting distinctive policy paradigms in their particulars. The national regulations curtailed smoking in many public spaces but accommodated smoking in small restaurants and bars. Tokyo’s stronger restrictions emphasized public health protection by exempting only eateries with no employees. I argue that fully understanding these contemporaneous reforms requires analyzing insider activists: state actors who participated in the tobacco control movement or had sustained interaction with it during earlier reform waves. Case studies drawing on interviews and movement and government documents illustrate the mechanisms insider activists can access because they straddle multiple fields. This article contributes to scholarship about ideas, policy entrepreneurship, and the blurry line between insiders and outsiders in policymaking.

2. Public Health and the State–Patient Relationship

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-39
Author(s):  
G. T. Laurie ◽  
S. H. E. Harmon ◽  
E. S. Dove
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Community Health ◽  
The State ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
Medical Law ◽  
Patient Relationship

This chapter orients medical law in the broader context of public and community health, emphasising the human rights components of health promotion, health protection and the management of threats to the community through a variety of legal frames, as well as the role of physicians for good and ill.

scholarly journals Second-hand harms of alcohol use in urban Chinese university students: A study from Hong Kong

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
J Kim ◽  
R H W Chan ◽  
K L Leung ◽  
K Y M Chan ◽  
R Y Chung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
University Students ◽  
Southern China ◽  
High Risk Group ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Public Health Burden ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
Chinese University Students

Abstract Background Although second-harms alcohol harms, harms caused by the drinking of others, may contribute significantly to the public health burden of alcohol, these harms are an understudied area of public health research. This study aims to examine second-hand alcohol harms in among urban Chinese university students residing on campus who are were previously identified as a high risk group for alcohol misuse. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among hostel residents in two Hong Kong universities (n = 1455) using self-administered, anonymous surveys. We examined the prevalance and the factors associated with second-hand alcohol harms this population using multivariable regression analysis. Results Approximately 2/3 of the university residents experienced at least one second-hand drinking harm in the past year while 1/5 experienced 4 or more harms. The harms reported were: 1) inconveniences/disturbances (46.2%), psychological distress/anxiety/depression (32.9%), home arguments (28.3%), conflicts/arguments/insults in public (25.3%), worsened productivity/academics (22.2%), property damage/monetary loss (13.2%), accidents/injury/assault (11.7%) and having to deal with authorities/law enforcement (11.5%). Only 9.1% reported these harms to authorities. Participation in drinking games (OR = 1.44), having drinking roomates (OR = 1.37) or drinking romantic partner (OR = 1.89) were independently associated with likelihood of second-hand alcohol harms (p < 0.05). Conclusions Although southern China is a low alcohol consumption region, there is a high prevalence of second-hand alcohol harms among university dorm residents. Universities in the region should rectify the near absence of alcohol-related topics in university health promotion. Key messages Harms from the drinking of others is a commonplace but underappreciated phenomenon among university campus residents. University health promotion in the region should include alcohol harms reduction topics.

"Be-well, work well": Integrating health protection and health promotion for hospital patient care staff

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine M. Wallace ◽  
Jack T. Dennerlein ◽  
Deborah McLellan ◽  
Dean Hashimoto ◽  
Glorian Sorensen
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Hospital Patient

Strengthening of occupational health promotion by the German Prevention Health Care Act

2019 ◽  
pp. 188-190
Author(s):  
Diana Hart
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Primary Prevention ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Occupational Health Promotion ◽  
And Control

All countries are faced with the problem of the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCD): implement prevention strategies eff ectively, keep up the momentum with long term benefi ts at the individual and the population level, at the same time tackling hea lth inequalities. Th e aff ordability of therapy and care including innovative therapies is going to be one of the key public health priorities in the years to come. Germany has taken in the prevention and control of NCDs. Germany’s health system has a long history of guaranteeing access to high-quality treatment through universal health care coverage. Th r ough their membership people are entitled to prevention and care services maintaining and restoring their health as well as long term follow-up. Like in many other countries general life expectancy has been increasing steadily in Germany. Currently, the average life expectancy is 83 and 79 years in women and men, respectively. Th e other side of the coin is that population aging is strongly associated with a growing burden of disease from NCDs. Already over 70 percent of all deaths in Germany are caused by four disease entities: cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes. Th ese diseases all share four common risk factors: smoking, alcohol abuse, lack of physical activity and overweight. At the same time, more and more people become long term survivors of disease due to improved therapy and care. Th e German Government and public health decision makers are aware of the need for action and have responded by initiating and implementing a wide spectrum of activities. One instrument by strengthening primary prevention is the Prevention Health Care Act. Its overarching aim is to prevent NCDs before they can manifest themselves by strengthening primary prevention and health promotion in diff erent sett ings. One of the main emphasis of the Prevention Health Care Act is the occupational health promotion at the workplace.

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