Fatherhood, Smoking, and Secondhand Smoke in North America

In the context of concerns about the effects of secondhand smoke on fetal health and the health of children, North American health promotion interventions have focused on reducing tobacco consumption among women to a greater extent than men. This is problematic when the health effects of men’s secondhand smoke in family environments are considered. This article examines this gendered phenomenon in terms of a history of cigarette consumption that positions smoking as masculine. Furthermore, it demonstrates the value of addressing men’s smoking using a gendered methodology, with an emphasis on fatherhood as an expression of masculine identity. Garnering health promotion programs to promote a culture of masculinity that is less individualistic, and defined in terms of responsibility and care for others, in addition to the self, has the potential to render men’s smoking problematic and challenge the historic linkages between smoking and masculinity.

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Worksite Health Promotion for Low-Wage Workers: A Scoping Literature Review

American Journal of Health Promotion ◽

10.1177/0890117117728607 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 32 (2) ◽

pp. 359-373 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Emily Stiehl ◽

Namrata Shivaprakash ◽

Esther Thatcher ◽

India J. Ornelas ◽

Shawn Kneipp ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Promotion ◽

Workplace Health Promotion ◽

Data Extraction ◽

The United States ◽

Worksite Health Promotion ◽

Workplace Health ◽

Health Promotion Programs ◽

Scoping Literature Review ◽

Worksite Health ◽

Health Promotion Interventions

Objective: To determine: (1) What research has been done on health promotion interventions for low-wage workers and (2) what factors are associated with effective low-wage workers’ health promotion programs. Data Source: This review includes articles from PubMed and PsychINFO published in or before July 2016. Study Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria: The search yielded 130 unique articles, 35 met the inclusion criteria: (1) being conducted in the United States, (2) including an intervention or empirical data around health promotion among adult low-wage workers, and (3) measuring changes in low-wage worker health. Data Extraction: Central features of the selected studies were extracted, including the theoretical foundation; study design; health promotion intervention content and delivery format; intervention-targeted outcomes; sample characteristics; and work, occupational, and industry characteristics. Data Analysis: Consistent with a scoping review, we used a descriptive, content analysis approach to analyze extracted data. All authors agreed upon emergent themes and 2 authors independently coded data extracted from each article. Results: The results suggest that the research on low-wage workers’ health promotion is limited, but increasing, and that low-wage workers have limited access to and utilization of worksite health promotion programs. Conclusion: Workplace health promotion programs could have a positive effect on low-wage workers, but more work is needed to understand how to expand access, what drives participation, and which delivery mechanisms are most effective.

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Cross-cultural adaptation of the CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard questionnaire into Portuguese

Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira ◽

10.1590/1806-9282.62.03.236 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 62 (3) ◽

pp. 236-242 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Patrícia Coelho de Soárez ◽

Rozana Mesquita Ciconelli ◽

Thiago Pavin ◽

Alberto José Niituma Ogata ◽

Kátia Audi Curci ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Promotion ◽

Scientific Basis ◽

Brazilian Portuguese ◽

Local Health ◽

Convenience Sample ◽

Health Promotion Programs ◽

Back Translation ◽

Worksite Health ◽

Questionnaire Method ◽

Health Promotion Interventions

SUMMARY Objective: Despite the progress in the implementation of health promotion programs in the workplace, there are no questionnaires in Brazil to assess the scope of health promotion interventions adopted and their scientific basis. This study aimed to translate into Brazilian Portuguese and culturally adapt the CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard (HSC) questionnaire. Method: The HSC has 100 questions grouped into twelve domains. The steps are as follows: translation, reconciliation, back-translation, review by expert panel, pretesting, and final revision. The convenience sample included 27 individuals from health insurance providers and companies of various sizes, types and industries in São Paulo. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results: The average age of the sample was 38 years, most of the subjects were female (21 of 27), and were responsible for programs to promote health in these workplaces. Most questions were above the minimum value of understanding set at 90%. The participants found the questionnaire very useful to determine the extent of existing health promotion programs and to pinpoint areas that could be developed. Conclusion: The Brazilian Portuguese version of the HSC questionnaire may be a valid measure and useful to assess the degree of implementation of health promotion interventions based on evidence in local health organizations.

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Historical Research on the Self and Emotions

Emotion Review ◽

10.1177/1754073909338306 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 1 (4) ◽

pp. 302-315 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

William M. Reddy

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

The Self ◽

Historical Research ◽

The Other ◽

Distinctive Features ◽

History Of Emotions ◽

History Of ◽

The One

Research on this topic in Europe and North America has reached a new stage. Prior to 1970, historians told a story of progress in which modern individuals gradually gained mastery of emotions. After 1970 this older approach was put into doubt. Since 1990 research into the history of emotions has increasingly relied on a new methodology, based on the assumption that emotion is a domain of effort, and that it is possible to document variance between emotional standards, on the one hand, and the greater or lesser success of individuals in conforming to them, on the other. Emotional standards are now assumed to display a history that is not progressive, but reflects distinctive features of each period.

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Men’s Mental Health Promotion Interventions: A Scoping Review

American Journal of Men s Health ◽

10.1177/1557988317728353 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 1823-1837 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Cherisse L. Seaton ◽

Joan L. Bottorff ◽

Margaret Jones-Bricker ◽

John L. Oliffe ◽

Damen DeLeenheer ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Promotion ◽

Work Performance ◽

Well Being ◽

Mental Health Promotion ◽

Health Promotion Programs ◽

Mental Wellness ◽

Male Specific ◽

Health Promotion Interventions

There is an increasing need for mental health promotion strategies that effectively engage men. Although researchers have examined the effectiveness of diverse mental wellness interventions in male-dominated industries, and reviewed suicide prevention, early intervention, and health promotion interventions for boys and men, few have focused on sex-specific program effects. The purpose of this review was to (a) extend the previous reviews to examine the effectiveness of mental health promotion programs in males, and (b) evaluate the integration of gender-specific influences in the content and delivery of men’s mental health promotion programs. A search of MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and EMBASE databases for articles published between January 2006 and December 2016 was conducted. Findings from the 25 included studies indicated that a variety of strategies offered within (9 studies) and outside (16 studies) the workplace show promise for promoting men’s mental health. Although stress was a common area of focus (14 studies), the majority of studies targeted multiple outcomes, including some indicators of positive well-being such as self-efficacy, resilience, self-esteem, work performance, and happiness/quality of life. The majority of programs were offered to both men and women, and six studies explicitly integrated gender-related influences in male-specific programs in ways that recognized men’s interests and preferences.

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The Self-Evidence of Human Rights

The Limits of Human Rights ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198824756.003.0004 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 55-68

Author(s):

Bardo Fassbender

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Human Rights ◽

North America ◽

The United States ◽

The Self ◽

The Third ◽

History Of ◽

General Recognition ◽

First Time ◽

Fundamental Shift

The chapter is a comment on Lynn Hunt’s reconsideration, in the same volume, of a crucial moment in the history of human rights when in North America and in France for the first time a ‘self-evidence’ of certain rights of ‘all men’ was claimed in constitutional discourse and documents, and a fundamental shift occurred in the explanation of human rights from a religious framework towards a secular one. The first part of the comment is devoted to the drafting history of the 1776 Declaration of Independence of the United States and to the meaning of the claim to ‘self-evidence’ in the Declaration. In a second part, the author returns to Lynn Hunt’s analysis of the limitations of the actual enjoyment of rights in eighteenth-century North America and France. The third part of the comment deals with the importance, or rather unimportance, of the notion of the self-evidence of human rights in the present age. It is argued that the idea of self-evidence proclaimed in 1776 failed to find general recognition, so that we must search for a new credible foundation of universal human rights.

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Where are all the men? A review of the barriers and facilitators to participation in health promotion interventions

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igab046.3064 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 845-845

Author(s):

Britteny Howell ◽

Sage Corbett ◽

Jennifer Peterson

Keyword(s):

Health Promotion ◽

Healthy Lifestyle ◽

Program Planning ◽

Barriers And Facilitators ◽

Lifestyle Behaviors ◽

Adult Participation ◽

Male Participation ◽

Health Promotion Programs ◽

And Gender ◽

Health Promotion Interventions

Abstract Research shows that men in the U.S. experience significant morbidity and earlier mortality than women and are less likely to access, interpret, and apply health information to improve their outcomes. Although evidence-based health promotion programs have proven successful at increasing healthy lifestyle behaviors and reducing morbidity among older adults, older males are still significantly less likely to enroll and sustain participation in such health interventions. While studies have shown the barriers and facilitators to older adult participation in health programs in general, it is largely unknown why older male recruitment and participation in health promotion interventions remains so low. In this poster presentation, we conducted a thorough review of the last 20 years of existing research across a variety of academic search databases to outline the barriers, facilitators, and recommendations for increasing older male participation in health promotion programs. Of 1,194 initial search results, 383 article abstracts were thoroughly screened for inclusion, and 26 articles met all inclusion criteria. Included studies were coded and analyzed using Grounded Theory and reveal that masculine gender roles, as well as program scope, environment, and gender of the instructors and other participants, were important factors for male participation. Interventions should include men in all aspects of program planning and implementation, take into account men’s existing relationships and interests to create gender-sensitive programming, and clearly delineate the benefits to participation. Lastly, the field of public health would benefit by helping to normalize men’s participation in health promotion interventions.

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A Better Way Forward

Self-Regulation and Human Progress ◽

10.11126/stanford/9780804796446.003.0005 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Evan Osborne

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

General Public ◽

Adam Smith ◽

The Self ◽

Economic Activities ◽

Political Leaders ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

Late Renaissance ◽

Bernard Mandeville

There is a long history of condemning merchants as agents of social disorder and little advocacy of free commerce as essential to ensure the proper allocation of efforts across economic activities and promote socioeconomic improvements. This began to change with both Aquinas and thinkers in the late Renaissance in Spain asking different questions about how producers could be induced to provide goods in a way that benefits society. The contributions of Bernard Mandeville, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot and, Adam Smith are sketched. By the end of the nineteenth century, much of the general public and even political leaders in Europe and North America believed in the virtues of the self-regulating socioeconomy. Through colonialism and observation of the “modern” West’s seemingly obvious successes, people and societies around the world began in ever-larger numbers to believe as well. But such widespread confidence was not to last.

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