scholarly journals Health Promotion as a Motivational Factor in Alpine Cycling

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 2321
Author(s):  
Marco Haid ◽  
Elisabeth Nöhammer ◽  
Julia N. Albrecht ◽  
Alexander Plaikner ◽  
Harald Stummer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Promoting Effect ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
As Stress ◽  
Nature Experience

The present study examines motives for cycling in the alpine region and focuses on the relative importance of health promotion with respect to other motives. Furthermore, the influences of person-specific characteristics on the rank of the motives are examined, and possibilities for advertising bike tourism based on these motives and characteristics are derived. By applying a quantitative approach, a total of 175 cyclists were surveyed using questionnaires on person-specific characteristics, motives, and their relevance for alpine cycling. Data analysis revealed that health promotion is the most important motive for alpine cycling after fun and action as well as nature experience. Further health-related motives such as stress reduction are also perceived as important. The social component, on the other hand, was given the least priority. The results also showed that person-specific characteristics influence the relative importance of motives. For example, elderly persons and people with children perceive the motive of health promotion as the most important. The study shows that the health-promoting effect of alpine cycling is noticed and may be further encouraged. This study demonstrates that alpine cyclists are a heterogeneous group and that health benefits are perceived by various sub-groups therein. Therefore, any marketing for alpine cycling needs to reflect the diversity of cyclists, and approaches need to be adapted according to the respective target group.

Are Lebanese schools adopting a health promotion approach in their curricula?

2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 476-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marwan Akel ◽  
Iqbal Fahs ◽  
Pascale Salameh ◽  
Emmanuelle Godeau
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Dental Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Awareness Campaigns ◽  
Health Promoting School ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Improve Health

Introduction: The concept of the health promoting school offers a coherent approach to promoting health and well-being within a whole school community. This study sought to evaluate the health programmes and policies adopted by different Lebanese schools, and their appropriateness for this role as part of health promotion. Methods: Our research took the form of a prospective observational study involving 50 schools from different areas of Lebanon. Data were collected using a questionnaire based on the Health Assessment Tool for Schools (HATS). Data were analysed to describe school characteristics and to reveal differences in the health topics addressed. Results: Most of the schools included in the study came from Mount Lebanon (56%). Around 70% of the involved schools offered health-related courses in their curricula. Health-related seminars and workshops (60%) and health awareness campaigns took place at the studied schools, with 98% incorporating physical education into the curriculum. Dental health (74%), smoking cessation (72%) and physical activity (68%) were among other most addressed topics, while mental health was the least discussed (20%). The majority (70%) of schools had a shared vision of what promoting health involved and sought to promote the active involvement of community members in the life of the school (60%). Around two-thirds of the schools (66%) provided physical support and facilities, and had developed policies for health promotion. Less than half of these schools’ health committees, however, had developed plans to improve health promotion and review data to ensure the effectiveness of their programmes. Conclusion: The study findings suggest that despite weaknesses, the majority of the sampled schools had either implemented or were in the process of implementing a health promoting school programme to improve health education and students’ well-being.

scholarly journals Factors Influencing Health Promoting Behaviours in Women of Reproductive Age in Iran: Based on Pender’s Health Promotion Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (14) ◽  
pp. 2360-2364
Author(s):  
Faramarz Shaahmadi ◽  
Davoud Shojaeizadeh ◽  
Roya Sadeghi ◽  
Zohreh Arefi
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Women Of Reproductive Age ◽  
Health Promotion Model ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Pender's Health Promotion Model ◽  
Health Related Behaviour

INTRODUCTION: Health promotion behaviours are considered as preventives of non-communicable diseases and key determinants of maintaining and improving the health status. AIM: This study aimed to investigate and identify effective factors on health-promoting behaviours based on Pender model in women of reproductive age from February to April 2017, in Savojbolagh, Iran. METHODS: This cross-sectional study is conducted on 240 women aged between 15 to 49 years in Savojbolagh, Iran, in 2017. The questionnaire consisted of several items, including socio-demographic characteristics, health-promoting lifestyle profile-II (HPLP-II), self-efficacy, social support and constructs of Pender’s health promotion model. SPSS-18 software has been applied for statistical analysis. RESULTS: The mean age of the women was 31.10 ± 7.29 years. Total HPLP-II score was 106.64 ± 11.93. The highest and the lowest mean in the subscales were belonged to nutrition and physical activity, respectively. According to the bivariate analysis, the total HPLP-II score is significantly related to prior health-related behaviour (p = 0.000). There was a statistically significant relationship between stress management and the variables including perceived benefits, perceived barriers, prior health-related behaviour, situational influences, commitment to a plan of action (p < 0.05). Also, health responsibility had a statistically significant relationship with self-efficacy (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: According to our results, it can be inferred that there is a problem with the HPBs of women. Considering that health-promoting behaviours like physical activity had a low score, it is a necessity to plan and perform interventions for improving health promotion behaviours.

scholarly journals Hope: A Health Promotion Resource

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Tone Rustøen
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Chronic Illnesses ◽  
The Future ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
The Way ◽  
Forward Looking

AbstractHope is a phenomenon many nurses and patients are concerned about. One of the reasons for this interest may be that many patients today live with chronic illnesses, and hope is something positive and focuses on the future and opportunities. Hope is a way of feeling, thinking, and influencing one’s behavior. The way we view our health and health-related challenges are assumed to impact on hope. Hope is forward-looking, realistic, and multidimensional. It is a resource for health and health-promoting processes and can be considered a salutogenic resource and construct. This chapter highlights what hope means during illness, what research has so far been concerned with, how hope can be assessed, and how nurses can strengthen hope in patients.

scholarly journals “Like Walking into an Empty Room”: Effects of Eurythmy Therapy on Stress Perception in Comparison with a Sports Intervention from the Subjects’ Perspective—A Qualitative Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Berger ◽  
M. Bertram ◽  
J. Kanitz ◽  
K. Pretzer ◽  
G. Seifert
Keyword(s):  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Therapy Group ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Stress Factors ◽  
Subjective Perceptions ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related ◽  
As Stress ◽  
Randomised Controlled ◽  
Stress And Health

Background. Stress and health-related quality of life are important constructs used in treatment evaluation today. This study is based on a randomised controlled trial examining the stress-reducing effect of eurythmy therapy in comparison with step aerobics in 106 healthy but stressed subjects. The aim of the analysis was to characterise changes in the subjective perceptions of the participants.Methods. Interviews were conducted with 76 healthy adults, 36 (f=31/m=5) from the eurythmy group and 40 (f=28/m=12) from the step aerobics group both analysed by content analysis and phenomenologically.Results. The following categories were identified for the eurythmy therapy group:enabling a productive therapeutic response, emergence of a new perceptual space, reevaluation of the accustomed perception, and emergence of new options for action. Step aerobics places increased physical and intellectual demands. These are perceived differently aspleasant and relaxing, insufficiently challenging and/or boring, and too challenging and thus experienced as stress-enhancing. Conclusion. The qualitative results provided revealing insights into the profound effects of and subjective assignments of meaning to external and internal stress factors. Processes of mental reinterpretation leading to stress reduction can be stimulated by physical procedures such as eurythmy therapy.

scholarly journals Health Promotion: a multidisciplinary analysis of the factors affecting practices of professionals

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M A Bou Monclús ◽  
M T Casamitjà Sot ◽  
J Mallolas Jimenez ◽  
J Sunyer Serrat ◽  
S Mantas Jimenez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health In All Policies ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Promotion Policies ◽  
Multidisciplinary Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Health Model

Abstract Background The coordination and degree of involvement of health professionals is essential for the success of the implementation of health promotion programmes. We belong to a regional multidisciplinary research group on Health Promotion. The aim of this study was to better ascertain how to empower the health professionals and general population. Methods A qualitative study was conducted among doctors, pharmacists, nurses, psychologists and veterinarians between March 2017 and December 2018. Six focus groups, with 32 women and 20 men purposively selected, were formed to determine the barriers and facilitators for the implementation of Health Promotion in their daily work and to assess their recommendations. Theoretical saturation was reached, and validity of the study was ensured by triangulation. Results The main barriers were: lack of training on Health Promotion which led to demotivation and distrust of own capacities, work overloaded and not valued neither by colleagues nor institutions, weak coordination between care and professional levels, inexistence of common guidelines, a health model based on disease and not addressing the social determinants of health, and, finally, legislation not being adequate. Volunteering, motivation and commitment of professionals were the most outstanding facilitators. Participants highlighted the need for all health professionals to be trained and to improve the budget for Health Promotion. They proposed that all health-related university degrees should incorporate a subject on Health Promotion. Likewise, better coordination between care and different professional levels is required, and the existing legislation should be enhanced for better promoting health. Conclusions The Health in All Policies approach should be provided with enough resources and consider all health disciplines. Further multidisciplinary studies are needed to make the system more people-centred. Key messages More training of health professionals’ skills and improved budget are required to implement health in all policies. Health Promotion policies need coordination and multidisciplinary guidelines.

Reflections on Responsibility and the Prospect of a Long Life

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn MacKay
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
The Social ◽  
Systemic Factors ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Education Campaigns ◽  
Long Life ◽  
Lifestyle Diseases

AbstractIn this commentary on Brown and colleagues’ paper, entitled ‘Against Moral Responsibilisation of Health: Prudential Responsibility and Health Promotion’, I highlight the tension between individual responsibility—even when this is prudential and not moral—and systemic factors that impact people's health. Brown and colleagues and I agree that individuals are frequently held inappropriately responsible for health-related behaviours or diseases that have become associated with the so-called ‘lifestyle’ diseases. We further agree that health is an instrumental value to people, allowing them to achieve their goals or plans. However, while Brown and colleagues argue that health promotion is justified in providing education campaigns that highlight the pragmatic reasons people have for improving their health-related behaviours, I argue that this amounts to the same inaction on systemic issues as holding individuals morally responsible. Further, without action on systemic issues such as the social determinants of health, some people lack the kinds of future-oriented pragmatic reasons that Brown and colleagues place at the centre of their argument. Rather, for some groups, the pragmatic thing is to enjoy current pleasures even if unhealthy, rather than to forego them for the sake of health in a mythical future.

scholarly journals Social media and health information sharing among Australian Indigenous people

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 706-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marita Hefler ◽  
Vicki Kerrigan ◽  
Joanna Henryks ◽  
Becky Freeman ◽  
David P Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Media Campaigns ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
Related Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
Health Content

AbstractDespite the enormous potential of social media for health promotion, there is an inadequate evidence base for how they can be used effectively to influence behaviour. In Australia, research suggests social media use is higher among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people than the general Australian population; however, health promoters need a better understanding of who uses technologies, how and why. This qualitative study investigates what types of health content are being shared among Aboriginal and Torres Strait people through social media networks, as well as how people engage with, and are influenced by, health-related information in their offline life. We present six social media user typologies together with an overview of health content that generated significant interaction. Content ranged from typical health-related issues such as mental health, diet, alcohol, smoking and exercise, through to a range of broader social determinants of health. Social media-based health promotion approaches that build on the social capital generated by supportive online environments may be more likely to generate greater traction than confronting and emotion-inducing approaches used in mass media campaigns for some health topics.

scholarly journals Health Promotion Among Home-Dwelling Elderly Individuals in Turkey

2021 ◽  
pp. 313-327
Author(s):  
Öznur Körükcü ◽  
Kamile Kabukcuoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Health Care Practice ◽  
Elderly Individuals ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Care Of Elderly

AbstractAlthough the social structure of Turkish society has changed from a broad family order to a nuclear family, family relations still hold an important place, where traditional elements dominate. Still, elderly people are cared for by their family in their home environment. Thus, the role of family members is crucial in taking care of elderly individuals. In Turkey, the responsibility of care is largely on women; the elderly’s wife, daughter, or daughter-in-law most often provides the care. Family members who provide care need support so that they can maintain their physical, psychological and mental health. At this point, Antonovsky’s salutogenic health model represents a positive and holistic approach to support individual’s health and coping. The salutogenic understanding of health emphasizes both physical, psychological, social, spiritual and cultural resources which can be utilized not only to avoid illness, but to promote health.With the rapidly increasing ageing population globally, health expenditures and the need for care are increasing accordingly. This increase reveals the importance of health-promoting practices in elderly care, which are important for the well-being and quality of life of older individuals and their families, as well as cost effectiveness. In Turkey, the emphasis on health-promoting practices is mostly focused in home-care services including examination, treatment, nursing care, medical care, medical equipment and device services, psychological support, physiotherapy, follow-up, rehabilitation services, housework (laundry, shopping, cleaning, food), personal care (dressing, bathroom, and personal hygiene help), 24-h emergency service, transportation, financial advice and training services within the scope of the social state policy for the elderly 65 years and older, whereas medical management of diseases serves elderly over the age of 85. In the Turkish health care system, salutogenesis can be used in principle for two aims: to guide health-promotion interventions in health care practice, and to (re)orient health care practice and research. The salutogenic orientation encompasses all elderly people independently of their position on the ease-/dis-ease continuum. This chapter presents health-promotion practices in the care of elderly home-dwelling people living in Turkey.

scholarly journals The Role of Health Promotion in Management Development. A Systematic Review of Training Concepts in an Organizational Context

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-97
Author(s):  
Michael Hans Gino Kraft
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Management Development ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Scientific Discussion ◽  
Individual Health ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
The Individual

Economic success often depends on the health of managers and employees in the company. In this context, health promotion programs are becoming increasingly important to ensure the quality of work and for reducing absenteeism. Although academic interest in the study of individual health in organizations is growing, there is still a need for research to fully understand its potential in the area of management development as well. Under this premise, this article summarizes the arguments and counter-arguments within the scientific discussion on health-promoting aspects in the context of management development. The purpose of this work is to systematically deepen the understanding of corporate health promotion by reviewing the relevance of health-related aspects in management training concepts. Given this evidence, this work contains a systematic literature review about management training programs and empirical contributions. The review took place between November 2020 and February 2021 by using different scientometric databases such as Econbiz, Scopus and Web of Science. Among 56 identified publications, 20 studies address such management training concepts in the context of health issues. The paper provides initial evidence of differing understandings of health promotion in management development and identifies difficulties in implementing and prioritizing health promotion in training programs on the management level. Even though health-promoting topics are becoming increasingly important, self-leadership aspects still play a subordinate role in development programs. The study proved that despite the economic importance of the individual health of employees and managers, health promotion is still seen as a self-reflective task. Practitioners are therefore invited to test the potential of health-promoting elements in management training and to implement them in organizational reality.

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