The prevention of tobacco smoking and development of skills of healthy life-style in students of professional educational institutions

Abstract The Right to health framework supports available, accessible and acceptable health care of high quality for all (AAAQ). Health of migrants often worsen in the new country. AAAQ may be hindered by poverty, discrimination, health cares' shortcomings and misunderstandings, respectively. Advocating for marginalised groups' Right to health include action. Interventions based on shared influence, participation and control need to be launched. Cultural mediators (CM), i.e. persons that are knowledgeable in both cultures and with networks in migrant groups help overcome lingual problems, lack of trust and uneven power relations. This resource needs to be further examined. How can a CM strengthen AAAQ in a public health setting? Women with Somalian origin living in an underserved neighborhood in Sweden contacted the Public Health Unit of a local hospital, asking for support for a health focused group-activity. Weight loss after delivery was a primary concern. Women gathered monthly 2018-19. The objective was to support healthy life style habits drawing on issues raised by the women. The intervention was conducted by group talks, led by the CM and a public health planner. Methods were based on Social Cognitive Theory focusing on self-efficacy. The CM recruited women, helped them to find the venue, encouraged them to trust the public health planner and broadened perspectives to include female genital mutilation, children's food, how to seek care and workforce issues. Trust developed over time. 70 women participated. Reported gains were raised awareness of ones' rights, increased self-efficacy in relation to food, physical activity and how to support children to a healthy life style. Support for a healthy lifestyle was made more available, accessible and acceptable by the cooperation with the CM, as was the quality of the support. A CM bridges distances regarding spoken language, trust and cultural understanding. S/he puts forward perspectives and needs from the group in question Key messages The Right to health framework highlights areas that need to be in focus when advocating for health equity. Health care workers in settings with many migrants should strive to include cultural mediators in planning, execution and evaluation of interventions.

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A study on associated risks of smoking, alcohol and smokeless tobacco on hypertension among advocates

International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health ◽

10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20195454 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (12) ◽

pp. 5114

Author(s):

Shanthi Edward ◽

Praveena Periasamy

Keyword(s):

Life Style ◽

Sampling Method ◽

Simple Random Sampling ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

District Court ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Healthy Life ◽

Healthy Life Style ◽

Study Participants

Background: Advocates, being stressed out and depressed in the law profession due to unstable work pattern, work overload and lack in coping up skills. They thrive a lot to survive in the profession. In such circumstances, lawyers may lean on alcohol or tobacco. In view of above issues, one of the main objectives of the study is to evaluate the association between use of alcohol, tobacco, smoking and hypertension among practising advocates.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in a sample of 300 practising advocates at Madurai district court for a period of 1 year by simple random sampling method. Data was collected using structured interview schedule and analysed using SPSS.Results: Around 263 (87.66%) study participants were non-smokers and 37 (12.33%) were tobacco smokers. Among the tobacco smokers, a majority of 24 (64.86%) were found to be hypertensives (p=0.002). In the current study among the alcohol consumers, a majority of 26 (55.32%) were hypertensives and among the non-consumers of alcohol, only 38.34% were hypertensives (p=0.044).Conclusions: Advocates being professionals are well educated, informative and aware of complications. Adoption of healthy life style practices, the prevalence of hypertension may be reduced among the advocate community. Life style modifications such as cessation of smoking, alcohol and tobacco should be adopted. Promotive activities like arrangement of health camps in the court, health education, counselling on self-care, stress bursting leisure time activities would reduce the dependency on tobacco and alcohol.

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HUBUNGAN PENGETAHUAN TENTANG FEKUNDABILITAS DAN SIKAP HIDUP SEHAT DENGAN PERILAKU REPRODUKSI SEHAT

Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan Lingkungan dan Pembangunan ◽

10.21009/plpb.171.02 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 17 (01) ◽

pp. 15-24

Author(s):

Ning Setianti ◽

Nadiroh Nadiroh

Keyword(s):

Survey Research ◽

Reproductive Behavior ◽

Life Style ◽

Random Sampling ◽

Research Method ◽

Healthy Life ◽

Knowledge And Attitudes ◽

Healthy Life Style ◽

The Relationship

The Objective of the research is to determine the relationship between the knowledge about fekundabilitas and healthy life style with healthy reproductive behavior in Depok.. The method which is used in this research is the correlation by survey research method. The technique of collected data using by test and non-tes with 80 respondents by multistage random sampling. The result of this research shows that the fekundabilitas knowledge and attitudes about healthy life style have a positive and significant relations with healthy reproductive behavior.

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FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG BERHUBUNGAN DENGAN PERILAKU PEMBACA DALAM MEMPEROLEH INFORMASI GAYA HIDUP SEHAT (Studi kasus Pembaca Tabloid Senior di Kecamatan Bogor Utara)

Jurnal Penyuluhan ◽

10.25015/penyuluhan.v3i2.2157 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Endang Sri Wahyuni ◽

Ma’mun Sarma ◽

Ismail Pulungan

Keyword(s):

Life Style ◽

Information Source ◽

Social Process ◽

Psychological Needs ◽

External Factors ◽

Human Beings ◽

Internal Factors ◽

Healthy Life ◽

Healthy Behavior ◽

Healthy Life Style

Healthy behavior is an important physical and psychological needs for human beings. Therefore, to attain good healthy behavior results, it is essential to study of the process to obtain information oh healthy life style in the Senior tabloid. Objectives of this research are to analyze individual characteristic (internal factors) and external factors (physical environment, social environment, and cultural environment), and to analyze the relationship between the internal factors and external factors and reader behavior. This study is a correlational description research, consists of 40 respondens of Senior tabloid reader were taken as sample. The sampling method was Sensus, and the technique of analysis were Spearman correlation method.The important results are : (1) reader behavior classified of five parts: exertion obtain an information source, reading frequency, reading schedule, exertion to store the information source, and information application, (2) internal factors that have significantly correlate to reder behavior are: job, healthy life style experience, family quantity, and cosmopolit, and (3) external factors that have significantly correlate to reader behavior are: packaging, content (topic and language), self concept, group effect, value system, and social process.

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