scholarly journals Art during tough times: reflections from an art-based health promotion initiative during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 175797592199863
Author(s):  
Ilhan Abdullahi ◽  
Navneet Kaur Chana ◽  
Marco Zenone ◽  
Paola Ardiles
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
Promotion Strategies ◽  
Health Promotion Initiative

With the current COVID-19 pandemic impacting communities across the globe, diverse health promotion strategies are required to address the wide-ranging challenges we face. Art is a highly engaging tool that promotes positive well-being and increases community engagement and participation. The ‘Create Hope Mural’ campaign emerged as an arts-based health promotion response to inspire dialogue on why hope is so important for Canadians during these challenging times. This initiative is a partnership between a health promotion network based in Vancouver and an ‘open air’ art museum based in Toronto. Families were invited to submit artwork online that represents the concept of hope. This paper discusses the reflections of organizers of this arts-based health promotion initiative during the early months of the pandemic in Canada. Our findings reveal the importance of decolonizing practices, centring the voices of those impacted by crisis, while being attentive to the social and political context. These learnings can be adopted by prospective health promoters attempting to use arts-based methods to address social and health inequities.

scholarly journals Health-promotion research over three decades: The social-ecological model and challenges in implementation of interventions

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (20_suppl) ◽  
pp. 20-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bente Wold ◽  
Maurice B. Mittelmark
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Ecological Model ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
First Case ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complete Study ◽  
The University

Aims: This debate paper traces the development of innovative methods for undertaking health promotion research with a socialecological orientation, with a few examples drawn from 30 years of research on adolescent health promotion research at the University of Bergen. Conclusion: We aim to show how the social-ecological model is becoming more evident as a guide to research, using three cases that illustrate progress and potential. The first case is the Norwegian part of the European Network of Health Promoting Schools. The second case is a project just underway, The COMPLETE study, which is a community-led effort to promote students’ mental health and create a good psychosocial learning environment. The third case is a developing idea for the next generation of social-ecological research on adolescent well-being, using an asset approach to foster social inclusion and sense of community in multiple settings.

Health Promotion for Family Caregivers of Chronically Ill Elders

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
BARBARA A. GIVEN ◽  
CHARLES W. GIVEN
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Primary Caregivers ◽  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Physical Health Status ◽  
Topic Area ◽  
Promotion Strategies

Previous research has focused almost exclusively on the burden and the negative effects of caregiving on the primary caregivers of the chronically ill. This prior research has provided a backdrop for understanding the psychological and physical challenges that caregiving incurs. Missing from past research, however, is any focus on the health promotion strategies of this caregiving population. Although some literature focuses on the psychological well-being, few articles deal with the physical health status of caregivers. Fewer yet describe the health promotion strategies that caregivers use to maintain their health.The chapter reviews existing literature regarding health promotion activities of primary caregivers in the context of articles focused on the psychological and physical health status of caregivers. Health promotion strategies will be discussed, as will recommendations for future research in this topic area.

scholarly journals Mapping the future of health promotion

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
E De Leeuw
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Care Policy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Network Analyses ◽  
Political Machines ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
The Social ◽  
Multiple Network

Abstract The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion was launched in 1986, and ten global conferences later its key calls to action have never been more poignant. To see health as a resource for everyday life in settings where people live, love, work and play, and recognizing equity and the social determinants of health as core to the success of healthy societies remains important. In the nearly 35 years since the Charter was published, we have seen a proliferation of health promotion research with ever greater insights in what drive the health and well-being of populations. Yet, at the same time we also witness a strong tendency to ground health (care) policy in biomedical and clinical evidence alone, and attribute health potential to lifestyle alone, rather than adopting a systems and social perspective of where health is created, grown, and celebrated. The causes for these diverging perspectives are complex, and are grounded in complexity. Humans and their socio-political systems, including the educational and political machines, tend to suffer from what the political scientist Charles Lindblom reputedly identified as the “Big Problem, Small Brain vs Small Problem Big Brain” phenomenon: researchers and intellectual are really good at pouring great volumes of thought and creative power into studying clearly defined issues, whereas politicians and bureaucrats face enormous problems and can get their heads around the multi-faceted solutions that need to be put in place. So - how do we make the complex palatable to the small brain? In this case - how can higher education systems be turned around to truly address the challenges of our and our children's time? The solution partially lies in the deployment of multiple network analyses of key stakeholders and the language they use to construct future realities: unless we have a clear map of the present and a much wider terrain before us to enter we will forever find it hard to navigate in the environmental and conflict dimension.

scholarly journals “The Tip of the Iceberg”: Commentary on Sports, Health Inequity, and Trauma Exacerbated by COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kemba Ceronne Noel-London ◽  
Crystal Grimsley ◽  
Jessie Porter ◽  
Anthony P. Breitbach
Keyword(s):  
Athletic Training ◽  
Return To Sport ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Inequity ◽  
System Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Health Care ◽  
Systemic Health ◽  
Training Practice

Objective To discuss the relevance of system-level health inequities and their interplay with race in sports and athletic training, particularly during and after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Background Health inequity is a systemic and longstanding concern with dire consequences that can have marked effects on the lives of minority patients. As a result of the unequal consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the magnitude of the outcomes from health inequity in all spheres of American health care is being brought to the fore. The discourse within athletic training practice and policy must shift to intentionally creating strategies that acknowledge and account for systemic health inequities in order to facilitate an informed, evidence-based, and safe return to sport within the new normal. Conclusions To continue to evolve the profession and solidify athletic trainers' role in public health spaces post–COVID-19, professionals at all levels of athletic training practice and policy must intentionally create strategies that acknowledge and account for not only the social determinants of health but also the effects of racism and childhood trauma on overall health and well-being.

Ending Health Promotion Lethargy

2022 ◽  
pp. 165-182
Author(s):  
Paloma Acacia Guzman-Garcia ◽  
Efrain Orozco-Quintana ◽  
Diego Sepulveda-Gonzalez ◽  
Alexis Cooley-Magallanes ◽  
Daniela Salas-Velazquez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Congenital Defects ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Awareness Campaign ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The Social ◽  
Promotion Strategies ◽  
Early Detection And Prevention

Hypothyroidism is a condition characterized by a deficit of thyroid hormones that leads to a low metabolic rate, typically associated with lethargy. The causes are diverse and may vary from congenital defects and autoimmune disorders to iodine deficiency, the latter being easily preventable with the appropriate strategies. For this chapter, the authors documented a social media awareness campaign via Instagram, whose purpose was to do popular science about hypothyroidism's symptoms to promote early detection and prevention. This campaign took place from October to November 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The campaign consisted of informative posts and engaged the audience via questionnaires through Instagram stories. Lastly, an online questionnaire was shared to assess the gained knowledge of the viewers and evaluate the campaign's efficacy. The social media awareness campaign showed to be a feasible way to educate the community, enabling efficient health promotion strategies through digital platforms.

The gendered face of global health

2019 ◽  
pp. 296-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Labonté ◽  
Arne Ruckert
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Maternal Health ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Female Empowerment ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Counter Measures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Maternal Health Outcomes ◽  
Women And Girls

Globalization’s misallocation of opportunities and risks applies not only between countries, but within them. One of those that stand out applies to women and girls. There are gendered health implications of globalization for men, but a longer litany of gender inequities in the social distribution and practices of power manifest in health inequalities facing women. Concern for women’s health has also assumed global policy prominence for at least the past three decades. Despite gains in child and some maternal health outcomes over this period, gendered health inequities are still unnecessarily large and derive from persistent (in some instances worsening) inequalities in the allocation of resources essential to health, such as income and food security. These structural curtailments on women’s well-being, many of them grounded in globalization processes, have not prevented mobilizing counter-measures; nor have they been devoid of some elements of female empowerment, notably in new employment opportunities for women.

scholarly journals Workshop: Health Literacy in the workplace: from health literate organizations to resilient individuals

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Literacy Research

Abstract This workshop aim is to explore the call that is proposed by the WHO declarations of Nairobi and Shangai, that institutions should move forward to become health literate organizations. This workshop addresses qualitative and quantitative health literacy research work settings of health and non-health professionals. Health literacy has evolved into a significant public health and health promotion goal which is especially influenced by the social and cultural background, the availability of resources, and the settings in which it is practised. Basically, health literacy can be defined as the knowledge and skills to access, understand, appraise and apply health information in order to promote health and well-being. For a long period most research had focused on adult patients in clinical settings, but in the recent past there have been significant efforts from research, practice, and policy towards citizens in other organizational settings, which is due to findings stating that effective health literacy promotion begins and continues across all settings in a whole society approach since health is mostly shaped outside the health care setting. Such approaches can also be influential when addressing the reduction of health inequalities. The main objective of this workshop is to present first time empirical findings and developments from ongoing research projects of the Health Literacy in workplace (ProLiSa). Thereby, it will shed light on the health literacy of professionals, and link the current debate with contemporary public health approaches to advance the field of health literacy. The workshop will include 5 presentations with up to 15 minutes input followed by discussions. The first presentation is a tentative to understand health literacy and ehealth tools to improve quality of life. From Brazil a second presentation will consider health care organizations (hospitals) and the perspective to move to health literate organizations. From Portugal a third presentation will consider migration and integration and the case of health literacy as a foundation to promote cultural sensitiveness in the organizational setting. A forth presentation will consider how communicating with migrants can be a challenge and how children’s health literacy, digital technology can become and critical help. Finally the last presentation considers the role of health literacy and physical activity as buffers to counter act work related stress. This workshop offers a forum for researchers, practitioners and policy-makers interested in health literacy. By dialogue and two-way communication lively interaction and vivid discussions will be facilitated. This will allow discussing results with regard to their benefit for improving health literacy research, practice, and policy-making, support further synergies, break down barriers between research infrastructures, facilitate networking and collaboration, and support international capacity building. Key messages There is need for empirical health literacy research in work settings. It will allow informing sustainable and effective interventions and the development and application of better tools. Addressing the social environment will have impact on public health research & practice, will facilitate the development of health literate organizations, new concepts/strategies for health promotion.

scholarly journals TRÂNSITO COMO TEMÁTICA INTERDISCIPLINAR EM PROMOÇÃO DA SAÚDE

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-203
Author(s):  
Anselmo Cordeiro de Souza ◽  
Maria Cecília Leite de Moraes ◽  
Leonardo Tavares Martins ◽  
Morenilza Bezerra de Conceição Fróes ◽  
Elaine Dos Santos Salzano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Environmental Statistics ◽  
Concept Of Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

O tráfego e a circulação humanos são, hoje, prioridades nas agendas políticas mundial e nacional, pelo impacto social de sua articulação e por conta da operacionalização, expressos em estatísticas epidemiológicas, criminais e ambientais, e no contexto das demandas logísticas de apropriação do espaço urbano. Este artigo objetiva explicitar a proposição interdisciplinar aplicada ao trânsito como mecanismo de produção de conhecimento, soluções e práticas melhores e mais efetivas. Trata-se de um ensaio teórico, que se limita a uma abordagem bibliográfica e narrativa, tendo como articulador um conceito nuclear em promoção da saúde, ou seja, o “saudável”. A partir da literatura consultada, confirmou-se a possibilidade da interdisciplinaridade como estratégia para superar as fortes tensões presentes na temática do trânsito. Isto significa uma valorização da vida e da saúde, por meio de uma estrutura congruente, ambientada na convivência e na relação fraterna, mediadas pelo trânsito como veículo de acesso e estreitamento das relações e dos laços humanos (físicos ou subjetivos), intencionando o bem-estar e a qualidade de vida social. A discussão a respeito do tema contribuiu para um clareamento e uma reflexão sobre a escandalosa necessidade de novos caminhos, baseados em propostas integradoras.Palavras-chave: Pesquisa interdisciplinar. Acidentes de Trânsito. Promoção da Saúde. Organização e administração.  ABSTRACT: Human traffic and circulation are now priority in the national and international political agendas, due to the social impact of its articulation and operationalization expressed in epidemiological, criminal and environmental statistics, and in the context of the logistic demands of urban space appropriation. This article aimed to explain the interdisciplinary proposition applied to traffic, as mechanism of production of knowledge, solutions and better and more effective practices. This is a theoretical essay limited to a bibliographical and narrative approach, which takes the concept of health promotion, namely "healthy", as articulator. From the literature consulted, we confirmed the possibility of the interdisciplinarity as a strategy to overcome the strong tensions present in the thematic traffic. It means that there is a valuation of life and health through a congruent structure, set in the coexistence and fraternal relationship, mediated by traffic as a vehicle of access and narrowing of human relations and ties (physical or subjective), intending the well-being and quality of social life. The discussion on the subject contributed to a clarification and reflection of the scandalous need for new paths based on an integrative proposal.Keywords: Interdisciplinary research. Accidents, Traffic; Health Promotion; Organization and Administration.

Systems and lives

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Cribb
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Social

This chapter explores some of the things that are entailed by calls for anti-reductionism or ‘holism’ in health policy. In particular, it considers what is sometimes called the ‘social context’ of health. Many reforming currents in health policy are informed by, and draw attention to, the importance of seeing health—including clinical medicine and individual well-being—in social terms. It has, for example, become a truism in health services quality-improvement work that a realistic prospect of change depends upon ‘systems thinking’—analysing and addressing the broad range of factors that shape the practices one is hoping to improve. Systems thinking has strong resonances and overlaps with traditions in public health and health promotion which also, of course, look at health in social terms, including as something that needs addressing at a population level.

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