Serving Those That Serve

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Torrens Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Military Health ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The U.S

Since 1986, health promotion has had a place within the U.S. Department of Defense. Emphasizing the leading health indicators of Healthy People, the role of health promotion has continued to support the U.S. Armed Forces in perhaps one of the most challenging decades of wartime operations. Serving a sizable population with both typical and mission-related health issues, health promotion plays a critical role in maintaining and improving health. The purpose of this article is to highlight military health promotion by offering insight into the day-to-day life of a “boots on the ground” military health educator, reviewing the challenges and opportunities of working with a unique population. A summary of a variety of military specific initiatives is provided. Additionally, the article highlights the barriers and benefits to military health promotion. Last, the article concludes with a call to action to consider the role of all health educators in serving those that serve.

Role of Nutraceuticals in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: A Review in the Indian Context

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-145
Author(s):  
Sheena Chhabra ◽  
Apurva Bakshi ◽  
Ravineet Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Immense Potential ◽  
Specific Health

Nutraceuticals have been around for quite some time. As the nomenclature suggests, they are placed somewhere between food (nutra-) and medicine (-ceuticals) in terms of their impact on human health. Researches have focused on the impact of various types of nutraceuticals on health, their efficacy in health promotion and disease prevention, and often on suitable uses of certain categories of nutraceuticals for specific health issues. However, we are still far from utilizing the immense potential of nutraceuticals for benefiting human health in a substantial manner. We review the available scholarly literature regarding the role of nutraceuticals in health promotion, their efficacy in disease prevention and the perception of nutraceuticals' health benefits by consumers. Thereafter we analyze the need for regulation of nutraceuticals and various provisions regarding the same.

Language and framing as determinants of the predominance of behavioural health promotion: an Australian view

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 624-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Fry
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Ottawa Charter ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Message Frame ◽  
The Many ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Behavioural Strategies

Abstract The language used in health promotion warrants attention as it shapes how health promotion is understood, constraining or opening up possibilities for action. The 2016 Shanghai Declaration and the 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion call for comprehensive approaches which include policy and environmental changes. Yet many health promotion programmes in Australia continue to focus on informational and/or behavioural strategies, and there is a contemporary tendency for such programmes to be described as ‘sending messages’. This paper uses frame analysis to discuss the role of language, and specifically language that frames health promotion as sending messages, in contributing to and reinforcing the predominance of informational and/or behavioural strategies. It argues such ‘message’ language helps to set a pattern in which informational and/or behavioural strategies are assumed to be the primary goal and extent of health promotion; rather than one component of a comprehensive, multi-strategic approach. It discusses how frames can be ‘taken for granted’ and ways in which such frames can be challenged and broadened. It argues that the message frame and associated behavioural framings set narrow boundaries for health promotion, contributing to the continuation of health inequities. These frames can also displace the language of the Ottawa Charter, which has capacity to reframe health issues socio-ecologically and include collective strategies. The paper concludes that a first step (of the many needed) towards applying the Charter’s approach and multi-level, multi-strategic framework is to use the innovative vocabulary it offers. The words matter.

scholarly journals Building Capacity to Increase Health Promotion Funding to American Indian Communities

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 907-914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Pedersen ◽  
Suzanne (Christopher) Held ◽  
Blakely Brown
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Community Capacity ◽  
Funding Agency ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Application Process ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Health Promotion Programs

Foundations and government agencies have historically played a critical role in supporting community-based health promotion programs. Increased access to health promotion funding may help address significant health issues existing within American Indian (AI) communities, such as childhood obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Understanding the capacity of AI communities to successfully apply for and receive funding may serve to increase resources for health promotion efforts within AI communities in Montana. This exploratory qualitative study completed 17 semistructured interviews across three AI reservations in the state of Montana. Dimensions of community capacity within the context of the funding application process and partnership with funding agencies were identified, including resources, leadership, community need, networks, and relationship with the funding agency. Dimensions of AI community capacity were then used to suggest capacity-building strategies for improved partnership between AI communities in Montana and the funding agencies.

scholarly journals Psychology, counseling psychology, and professional counseling: Shared roots, challenges, and opportunities

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peggy Brady-Amoon ◽  
Kathleen Keefe-Cooperman
Keyword(s):  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Professional Counseling ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
The Public ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Narrow Definition ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

Psychology, counseling psychology, and professional counseling are at a crossroad. The growing movement to establish professional counseling as a distinct profession, based on an increasingly narrow definition of professional identity, is particularly relevant to counseling psychologists and professional counselors and has implications for the broader field of psychology. A brief systematic historical analysis of these professional specialties in the U.S. provides the context to examine current challenges, including proposed restriction of master’s level training, licensure or other authorization to practice, and employment to graduates of programs accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). These restrictions reduce services to the public and threaten the viability of counseling psychology and professional counseling in the U.S. These challenges also have significant implications for counseling psychologists in Europe and internationally given similar efforts. Going beyond a call to action, the article concludes with recommendations for counseling psychologists and allied professionals to address shared challenges, maximize shared opportunities, and foster enhanced intra- and inter-professional collaboration and cooperation.

scholarly journals Fostering innovation in health promotion research: the critical role of the IUHPE

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Potvin ◽  
David V McQueen ◽  
Evelyne De Leeuw ◽  
Rosilda Mendes ◽  
Thomas Abel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Critical Role

The Role of a New Harvest Platform in Alleviation of Apple Workers’ Occupational Injuries During Harvest

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
Zhao Zhang ◽  
Zhaohua Zhang ◽  
Weijie Wang ◽  
Hu Liu ◽  
Zhiqun Sun
Keyword(s):  
Upper Limb ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Combined Method ◽  
Physical Damage ◽  
Seasonal Workers ◽  
Agricultural Safety ◽  
Ergonomic Analysis ◽  
The U.S

Abstract. Migrant seasonal workers manually harvest apples throughout the U.S. using ladders and buckets due to the care required for prevention of bruises and other physical damage. The motions associated with hand harvest have potential to cause musculoskeletal disorders of the neck, shoulder, and back/trunk. A prototype harvest platform was developed, aimed at alleviating occupational injuries and increasing harvest productivity by replacing ladders for reaching high apples. This study evaluated the activities of three harvest methods, i.e., conventional harvest (using ladders and buckets), harvest platform (for high apples only), and combined method (conventional harvest for low and middle apples and harvest platform for high apples) using the Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) method performed by trained researchers. Postures/activities with RULA grand scores > 5 were categorized as awkward (causing occupational injuries); otherwise, they were considered comfortable (not leading to health issues). Experimental results demonstrated that awkward activities in conventional harvest were mainly related to the use of ladders. Activities with the harvest platform were comfortable due to the elimination of ladders and buckets. The combined method significantly decreased the workers’ time spent in awkward postures (from 64% with conventional harvest to 30% with the combined method) by eliminating awkward activities and increased the overall harvest productivity by approximately 40%. Apple growers and workers are therefore suggested to use the combined method to replace conventional harvest. Keywords: Agricultural safety, Apple harvest, Ergonomic analysis, Harvest platform, Migrant seasonal workers, Occupational injuries, Postures.

Multiplying Health Gains: the critical role of capacity-building within health promotion programs

Health Policy ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penelope Hawe ◽  
Michelle Noort ◽  
Lesley King ◽  
Christopher Jordens
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Health Gains ◽  
Health Promotion Programs

scholarly journals Sustainability, human rights, and environmental justice

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine A. Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Systems Perspective

Social work has a long-standing tradition of emphasizing the interaction of people and their environment, although this systems perspective has focused almost exclusively on the importance of social relationships. There is an emerging emphasis within the profession regarding the need to pay more attention to the critical role of the physical environment. The last fifty years has seen a growing global ecological movement, and the profession is joining the call to action for sustainability. Social work must extend this mission to include environmental justice, the human right to live in a clean, safe, and healthy environment. The world’s most poor, vulnerable, and oppressed people often live in the most degraded environments and have no control over resources. The important connections between social work, sustainability, human rights, and environmental justice in our contemporary world need to be more clearly articulated in the scholarly literature. An understanding of these separate but closely linked concepts is necessary for the profession to effectively pursue the goal of making the world a more just, humane, and sustainable home for all life.

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