scholarly journals Health promoting hospitals: Gaining an understanding about collaboration

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Johnson ◽  
Jo Nolan
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Collaborative Relationships ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Way ◽  
Policies And Practices

Collaboration with others is integral to the way hospitals need to work if they are committed to integrating health promotion into policies and practices to improve the health of their ?setting? and the broader community. This article reports on research that aimed (a) to identify the range of stakeholders a large metropolitan teaching hospital had collaborated with in undertaking health promotion work and how effective that relationship was, and (b) explore with these stakeholders how they had collaborated with the teaching hospital, and what had or had not worked well. Key findings were that the hospital had collaborated with at least 16 organisations. The effectiveness of these relationships was variable, with 55% (n=9) rating their relationship with the hospital as being ?good to excellent? and 45% (n=7) as being ?okay to unworkable?. Where collaboration worked well there was good interpersonal relationships and common goals were shared. In two instances more formal mechanisms were in place to support the collaboration. These mechanisms supported involvement of staff from different levels of the hospital and did not totally rely on cooperation between individuals to sustain the collaboration.Where there was decreased effectiveness in the collaborative relationships, differing attitudes and organisational and structural barriers posed the most significant barriers.

scholarly journals Hope: A Health Promotion Resource

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Tone Rustøen
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Chronic Illnesses ◽  
The Future ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
The Way ◽  
Forward Looking

AbstractHope is a phenomenon many nurses and patients are concerned about. One of the reasons for this interest may be that many patients today live with chronic illnesses, and hope is something positive and focuses on the future and opportunities. Hope is a way of feeling, thinking, and influencing one’s behavior. The way we view our health and health-related challenges are assumed to impact on hope. Hope is forward-looking, realistic, and multidimensional. It is a resource for health and health-promoting processes and can be considered a salutogenic resource and construct. This chapter highlights what hope means during illness, what research has so far been concerned with, how hope can be assessed, and how nurses can strengthen hope in patients.

scholarly journals Empowering a group of seniors in a rural community

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Rita Marinho Machado ◽  
Walterlânia Silva Santos ◽  
Flavia Aparecida Dias ◽  
Darlene Mara dos Santos Tavares ◽  
Denize Bouttelet Munari
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Scope Of Practice ◽  
Care Research ◽  
Healthy Habits ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Group Interviews

OBJECTIVE To describe the stages of the empowerment process of a group of seniors in a rural community. METHOD Convergent care research whose foundation is to use the scope of practice. Conducted with the proposal to change the practice of 21 seniors and nine health professionals, with the aim of health promotion empowerment. Data were collected during 22 meetings, and group interviews at the end of the intervention. RESULTS Showed that despite the initial impact of the change, the group was able to welcome the new change, taking advantage of the space to express anxieties, share joys, and build new knowledge, which led to the incorporation of changes that reflected in the development of healthy habits and improvements in interpersonal relationships. CONCLUSION The convergent care research consisted of strategy that changed the group's lives, empowering them with health promoting actions.

scholarly journals Health-promoting lifestyle profile and associated factors among medical students in a Saudi university

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 205031211983842 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sami H Alzahrani ◽  
Ahmad Azam Malik ◽  
Jamil Bashawri ◽  
Saleh Ageel Shaheen ◽  
Musab Mamdouh Shaheen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Health Promoting Lifestyle

Objectives: Health promotion is the main strategy for encouraging people to adopt a healthy lifestyle and for preventing non-communicable diseases. Medical students, in particular, are expected to have an important role in health promotion in their near future as physicians. The aim of this study was to determine and evaluate all six components of the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile and its sociodemographic determinants among medical students. Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in January 2018 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The questionnaire used in this study consisted of two parts: the first part included sociodemographic questions and body mass index measurement and the second part consisted of questions from the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II. Results: The study enrolled 243 medical students, of which 55.1% were male, 39.5% were in their fifth year, and more than half had a monthly family income above 20,000 Saudi Riyal. The mean body mass index of the respondents was 25.1 ± 5.2 (range = 13.7–43.8). The total mean score of the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II was 123.8 ± 19.8 (range = 72–191). Study findings showed that health-promoting profiles differed by gender, particularly with respect to physical activity and interpersonal relationships. Factors were found to be associated with the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II subscales, including income and year of study. Conclusions: University students, and in particular health science students, represent an appropriate area for health promotion interventions to be established.

Health promoting behaviors of staff in a university of medical sciences in southeast of Iran

2018 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamileh Farokhzadian ◽  
Golnaz Forughameri ◽  
Maryam Mohseny
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Health Promoting Behaviors ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Student’S T ◽  
Nutrition Habits

AbstractBackgroundHealth promoting behaviors are appropriate indicators to determine individuals’ health status. The staff of a health care system plays an important role in enhancing health promoting behaviors in society; therefore, the present study is aimed to evaluate health promoting behaviors of the staff in a university of medical sciences.MethodsA descriptive study was conducted on 140 staff of the Kerman University of Medical Sciences in the southeast of Iran. Data were collected using the Persian version of the Health Promotion Lifestyle Profile-II questionnaire with six dimensions of spiritual growth, health responsibility, interpersonal relationships, stress management, exercise and physical activity and nutrition habits. The data were analyzed using SPSS (version 18), descriptive statistics, Student’s t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA).ResultsThe mean of health promoting behaviors of the staff was at the moderate level (2.22 ± 0.10). The highest and lowest means were related to the dimensions of nutrition habits (2.75 ± 0.29) and exercise and physical activity (1.70 ± 0.24), respectively. There was a significant difference in the scores of health promotion behaviors based on age, so that the health promoting behaviors in the age group younger than 40 years old were higher than that in other age groups (p = 0.04).ConclusionSome health promoting behaviors such as exercise and physical activity have not been appropriately merged into daily life. It is recommended to provide educational programs for all aspects of health promoting behaviors of the staff’s health in order to promote productivity.

Organizing and Managing Data Analytics Teams for Procurement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Shao ◽  
Robert D. St. Louis
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Procurement Process ◽  
Using Data ◽  
And Training ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Way

Many companies are forming data analytics teams to put data to work. To enhance procurement practices, chief procurement officers (CPOs) must work effectively with data analytics teams, from hiring and training to managing and utilizing team members. This chapter presents the findings of a study on how CPOs use data analytics teams to support the procurement process. Surveys and interviews indicate companies are exhibiting different levels of maturity in using data analytics, but both the goal of CPOs (i.e., improving performance to support the business strategy) and the way to interact with data analytics teams for achieving that goal are common across companies. However, as data become more reliably available and technologies become more intelligently embedded, the best practices of organizing and managing data analytics teams for procurement will need to be constantly updated.

scholarly journals Application of the Ottawa Charter Five Priority Areas of Action for Public Health to an Institution-Wide Diabetes Care Promotion

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1543
Author(s):  
Min-Hua Lin ◽  
She-Yu Chiu ◽  
Wen-Chao Ho ◽  
Hui-Ying Huang
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Diabetes Care ◽  
Hospital Staff ◽  
Health Promotion Program ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Diabetes Patients

This study was the first institution-wide health promotion program in Taiwan to apply the five priority areas for taking action in public health highlighted in the Ottawa Charter for diabetes patients. We aimed to improve the quality of home care received by diabetic patients by training health care professionals in health promotion. This program consisted of developing personal skills, reorienting health services, strengthening community actions, creating supportive environments, and building healthy public policy. It was applied in the Yunlin Christian Hospital located in central Taiwan from August 2011 to November 2011. A health-promoting education course consisting of weight control, diabetes care, and quality management for diabetes was developed and applied to all 323 hospital staff. Then, hospital staff volunteers and diabetes patients were recruited to participate in the program. A total of 61 staff volunteers and 90 diabetes patients were involved in this study. Staff volunteers were trained to participate in communities to provide care and guidance to patients with diabetes. The World Health Organization Quality of Life(WHOQOL)-BREF-Taiwan Version questionnaires were investigated before and after implementation of this program for the patients. A health-promoting lifestyle profile questionnaire was filled by the staff. The investigation data were then analyzed by statistical methods. The diabetes patients experienced a significant increase in their satisfaction with health and health-related quality of life as well as significant improvements in health-promotion and self-management behaviors (p < 0.05). In addition, staff volunteers significantly consumes food from the five major groups than the other staff (p < 0.05). Various improvements in health-promoting behaviors were observed amongst the hospital staff and the diabetic patients. Our project could be a reference for other medical organizations to implement an institution-wide health-promotion program for diabetic patients.

An Analysis of Attitudes—Dynamics and Effects

1974 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 108-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice A. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Emotional Factors ◽  
Blind Persons ◽  
The Way

Several cognitive factors are singled out because of their strong influence on the way in which the abilities of blind people are perceived, namely: the spread phenomenon, position of the observer, expectation discrepancy, restricting environmental opportunities in accord with expectations, attribution to person versus environment. In the affective area, negative emotional factors (pity, fear, uneasiness, guilt) and positive emotional factors (genuine sympathy, respect, appreciation, warm interpersonal relationships) are discussed. Ambivalence (the presence of both positive and negative components) is seen as contributing to the variability of behavior toward blind people. Finally, guidelines for the improvement of attitudes and environmental opportunities are outlined. Of special significance for the education of the public is the approach based on the coping framework as opposed to the succumbing framework. Integrating blind persons with sighted persons into as many activities as possible is supported. The vigorous engagement and leadership in programs for the blind by blind people working collaboratively with sighted people are also stressed.

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