Book Review: DiClemente, R.J., Crosby, R.A., & Kegler, M.C. (Eds.). (2002). Emerging Theories in Health Promotion Practice and Research: Strategies for Improving Public Health. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, John Wiley & Sons. 432 pages. ISBN 0-7879-5566-3. Hardcover $60.00.

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill M. Black
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Health Promotion Practice

scholarly journals Leveraging Arts for Justice, Equity, and Public Health: The Skywatchers Program and Its Implications for Community-Based Health Promotion Practice and Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 91S-100S
Author(s):  
Rabbi Nancy E. Epstein ◽  
Anne Bluethenthal ◽  
Deirdre Visser ◽  
Clara Pinsky ◽  
Meredith Minkler
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Health Promotion Practice

Arts have long addressed the conditions that cause ill health, such as poverty, social inequality, and structural racism, and have recently taken on increased significance for public health. This article illuminates the potential for cross-sector collaboration between community-based health promotion and community-engaged arts to address the social determinants of health and build neighborhood assets at multiple levels of the social-ecological model. It features Skywatchers, a collaborative community arts ensemble of artists and residents of the culturally rich but economically poor Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco, California, and its original values-based “relational, durational, conversational, and structural” methodology focused on process over product and leveraging arts for justice and equity. Now, 10 years into its work, Skywatchers offers lessons about building reciprocal relationships, cocreating artworks, and promoting arts-based advocacy to improve the conditions that foster poor health in the neighborhood. The article discusses implications for community-based health promotion practice that delineate commitments and challenges shared between the two fields, their distinct roles and tools, and the potential for more widespread partnerships. It concludes with implications for policy and advocacy and a vision for expanded community-based participatory research to better understand the impact of arts on community health and well-being.

scholarly journals Toward a Culture of Health in the United States: Introducing the HPP Arts in Public Health Supplement

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 5S-7S
Author(s):  
Jill Sonke ◽  
Lourdes Rodríguez ◽  
Melissa A. Valerio-Shewmaker
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Public Health Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
The University ◽  
Critical Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion Practice

The arts—and the arts and culture sector—offer fertile ground for achieving a culture of health in the United States. The arts and artists are agents of change and can help enable this vision and also address the most critical public health issues we are contending with, including COVID-19 and racism. The arts provide means for engaging dialogue, influencing behaviors, disrupting paradigms and fueling social movements. The arts uncover and illuminate issues. They engage us emotionally and intellectually. They challenge assumptions. They call out injustice. They drive collective action. They heal—making arts + public health collaboration very relevant in this historic moment. In this special Health Promotion Practice supplement on arts in public health, you’ll find powerful examples and evidence of how cross-sector collaboration between public health and the arts can advance health promotion goals and impacts, and make health promotion programs not only more accessible to diverse populations but also more equitable and effective in addressing the upstream systems, policies, and structures that create health disparities. You will see how the arts can empower health communication, support health literacy, provide direct and measurable health benefits to individuals and communities, and support coping and resilience in response to COVID-19. This issue itself exemplifies cross-sector collaboration, as it was created through partnership between Health Promotion Practice, the Society for Public Health Education, ArtPlace America, and the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine, and presents voices from across the public health, arts, and community development sectors.

Critical Narrative Intervention for Health Equity Research and Practice: Editorial Commentary Introducing the Health Promotion Practice Critical Narrative Intervention Special Collection

2021 ◽  
pp. 152483992110461
Author(s):  
Alice Fiddian-Green ◽  
Aline Gubrium
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Narrative Intervention ◽  
Equity Research ◽  
Special Collection ◽  
Health Equity Research ◽  
Critical Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion Practice

This special collection of Health Promotion Practice introduces critical narrative intervention (CNI) as a key theoretical framing for an asset-based, narrative, and participatory approach to promoting health and addressing social inequality. Innovative digital and visual methodologies highlighted in this special collection—comics and graphic novels, cellphilms and other participatory film, story booths, digital storytelling, and photovoice—are changing the way critical public health researchers and practitioners forge new knowledge, creating new possibilities for interdisciplinary and activist-based inquiry. Public health research and engagement efforts that critically contend with historically repressive structures and intervene through narrative and participatory processes to enact change with and for disenfranchised communities are long overdue. This special collection showcases six CNI projects that promote equity and justice in the context of LGBTQ, nonbinary, and other gender-diverse young people; people who inject drugs living with hepatitis C virus; young women who trade sex; undocumented and formerly undocumented immigrants; and people living with HIV/AIDS. It is our intent that this collection of exemplars can serve as a guidepost for practitioners and researchers interested in expanding the scope of critical public health praxis. Individually and collectively, the special collection illustrates how CNI can create space for the increased representation of historically silenced populations, redress stigma, and provoke important questions to guide a new era of health equity research.

Improving Health Promotion Through the Integration of Technology, Crowdsourcing, and Social Media

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric J. Conrad ◽  
Mikaela Becker ◽  
Brent Powell ◽  
Kelly Corrine Hall
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Intervention Development ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
Integration Of Technology ◽  
Media And Technology ◽  
Relief Efforts ◽  
Health Promotion Practice

As Internet accessibility and technological innovations continue to increase communication, new opportunities have emerged to leverage these tools to improve health promotion practice. Advances and utilization of collaborative Internet communication, or social media, have provided global connectivity on an unprecedented scale. Using these innovations to leverage the collective intellect of online communities for specific goals, crowdsourcing is an approach that has the potential to solve complex public health problems. Due to the novelty of crowdsourcing implementations and the relative infancy of its application within public health, it is necessary to examine examples to facilitate practitioner conceptualization and application. This article details the development and application of a crowdsourced effort leveraging social media and technology to assist in relief efforts during Hurricane Harvey. Furthermore, the article presents examples corresponding to a typology of crowdsourcing for public health, including Knowledge Discovery and Management, Distributed Human Intelligence Tasking, Broadcast Search, and Peer-Vetted Creative Production problems. Leveraging these innovative applications has positive implications for health promotion practice, including improved intervention development and evaluation, increased multidisciplinary collaboration, and enhanced facilitation of communication, information exchange, and support.

Book Review – Four Steps Towards Equity: A Tool for Health Promotion Practice

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-228
Author(s):  
Gavin Turrell ◽  
Mathew Dick ◽  
Pete Whitecross
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Promotion Practice
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