scholarly journals Health Promotion Planning and an Interview With Dr. Lawrence Green

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 760-765
Author(s):  
Paul E. Terry
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Program ◽  
Program Planning ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Health Promotions ◽  
Eminent Scholar ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Promotion Planning

“If we are to have more evidence-based practice, we need more practice-based evidence.” This quote has become something of a mantra for the health promotions profession’s most pre-eminent scholar, Dr. Lawrence W. Green. This editorial features an interview with Dr. Green and previews the forthcoming 5th edition of Green and Kreuter’s seminal health promotion planning textbook. The new title will be Health Program Planning, Implementation and Evaluation: Creating Behavioral, Environmental and Policy Change, with the Johns Hopkins University Press as the new publisher. Co-Editors for this new edition are Larry Green, Andrea Gielen, Judith Ottoson Darleen Peterson, and Marshall Kreuter. This edition shows the vital progression from planning and implementation to evaluation and has further refined and simplified the visual representation of the planning model. The “enabling factors” that will spawn more practice based evidence are discussed. To enable practice-based research will mean that end users of a service or intervention must be taught to be leaders and advocates for approaches that are responsive to their needs, preferences and values.

scholarly journals Training Employers to Implement Health Promotion Programs: Results From the CDC Work@Health® Program

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 1062-1069 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie A. Cluff ◽  
Jason E. Lang ◽  
Jennifer R. Rineer ◽  
Nkenge H. Jones-Jack ◽  
Karen M. Strazza
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Program ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Workplace Health Promotion ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Mixed Linear Models ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
Work Health ◽  
Control And Prevention

Purpose: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initiated the Work@Health Program to teach employers how to improve worker health using evidence-based strategies. Program goals included (1) determining the best way(s) to deliver employer training, (2) increasing employers’ knowledge of workplace health promotion (WHP), and (3) increasing the number of evidence-based WHP interventions at employers’ worksites. This study is one of the few to examine the effectiveness of a program designed to train employers how to implement WHP programs. Design: Pre- and posttest design. Setting: Training via 1 of 3 formats hands-on, online, or blended. Participants: Two hundred six individual participants from 173 employers of all sizes. Intervention: Eight-module training curriculum to guide participants through building an evidence-based WHP program, followed by 6 to 10 months of technical assistance. Measures: The CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard and knowledge, attitudes, and behavior survey. Analysis: Descriptive statistics, paired t tests, and mixed linear models. Results: Participants’ posttraining mean knowledge scores were significantly greater than the pretraining scores (61.1 vs 53.2, P < .001). A year after training, employers had significantly increased the number of evidence-based interventions in place (47.7 vs 35.5, P < .001). Employers’ improvements did not significantly differ among the 3 training delivery formats. Conclusion: The Work@Health Program provided employers with knowledge to implement WHP interventions. The training and technical assistance provided structure, practical guidance, and tools to assess needs and select, implement, and evaluate interventions.

Approaches for prioritising the nutritional needs of refugee communities

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Palermo ◽  
Clare Robinson ◽  
Kate Robertson ◽  
Shireen Hii
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Program Planning ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
Strength Based ◽  
Nutritional Needs ◽  
Planning Strategies ◽  
Promotion Strategies ◽  
Promotion Planning ◽  
Oriented Approach

An important part of health promotion planning is identifying priority areas for programs. A typical approach includes a needs assessment where a deficit-oriented approach captures problems within a community. Approaches that focus on strengths have emerged as potentially more appropriate and effective methods for program planning. This report describes the outcomes and learning from using both a deficit-oriented and strength-based approach for identifying and describing nutrition priorities of refugee communities. Focus groups (n = 11) were conducted using both methods with a total of 69 community members from Afghan, Burmese and Sudanese backgrounds. Analysis of the focus group transcripts using a content analysis approach identified key influences on food choice and determinants of health and nutrition. There were differences in the type of information obtained from the deficit-oriented and strength-based approach. Although the strength-based approach was unfamiliar to participants and offered several challenges, it identified unique aspects of the communities that were not identified by the deficit-oriented approach, and could be used as the basis for planning community health promotion strategies. Elements of each method should be considered when designing community program planning strategies.

Essential Dental Public Health

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blánaid Daly ◽  
Paul Batchelor ◽  
Elizabeth Treasure ◽  
Richard Watt
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Dental Public Health ◽  
Oral Health Promotion ◽  
Dental Practitioners ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Based Medicine

Public health is a key concern of modern dental practitioners as they continue to play a vital role in the health of populations across the world. The second edition of Essential Dental Public Health identifies the links between clinical practice and public health with a strong emphasis on evidence-based medicine. Fully revised and updated for a second edition, this textbook is split into four parts covering all the need-to-know aspects of the subject: the principles of dental public health, oral epidemiology, prevention and oral health promotion, and the governance and organization of health services. Essential Dental Public Health is an ideal introduction to the field for dentistry undergraduates, as well as being a helpful reference for postgraduates and practitioners.

The Shape up Challenge: A Community-Based Worksite Exercise Competition

1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan M. Blake ◽  
Carl J. Caspersen ◽  
John Finnegan ◽  
Richard A. Crow ◽  
Maurice B. Mittlemark ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Program ◽  
Employee Participation ◽  
Behavioral Risk ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Exercise Maintenance ◽  
Health Promotion Programs ◽  
Work Units ◽  
Heart Health Program

Purpose. To assess organizational and employee participation during three community-wide worksite exercise competitions in two communities. Design. A one-group, posttest-only design was used. Lack of controls, exercise baseline, and the short-term nature of the interventions were limitations. Setting. The Minnesota Heart Health Program conducted annual exercise campaigns between 1982 and 1989 within three intervention communities to reduce behavioral risk for cardiovascular disease. The Shape Up Challenge was a worksite exercise competition designed, in conjunction with other campaign activities, to increase levels of physical activity. Subjects. A total of 119 participating companies in two Minnesota communities, and 17,626 employees within these worksites, composed the subjects in this study. Intervention. Eligible worksites were invited to participate in a month-long competition during which employees recorded minutes spent daily in aerobic activities. Incentives were established to promote intragroup cooperation and intergroup competition. Companies competed for awards that were based on average minutes of exercise per employee versus per participant. Measures. Numbers of companies recruited and participating, campaign activities, minutes of exercise, and costs were recorded on implementation logs. Companies completed surveys describing business type, number and sex of employees, existing health promotion programs, and perceived benefits of participation. Results. Of the 365 companies invited to participate, 33 % participated (range 15 % to 50%). Participating companies were more likely than nonparticipating companies to offer other health promotion programs and perceived greater benefits from participation. Women and smaller companies had significantly greater participation rates than men and larger companies. Average employee participation rates ranged from as high as 84% in smaller organizations to as low as 16% as organization size increased. Conclusions. Community-based worksite exercise competitions appear to be a viable strategy for promoting employee exercise, particularly in smaller companies. Group-based contingencies applied in natural work units may facilitate employee participation. Further research is needed to assess the relative efficacy of this approach, compare alternative incentives, and identify strategies to enhance exercise maintenance after the intervention has ceased.

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