scholarly journals Exploring Factors Contributing to the Implementation of Ontario’s Healthy Kids Community Challenge: Surveys and Key Stakeholder Interviews with Program Providers

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (21) ◽  
pp. 11108
Author(s):  
Michelle M. Vine ◽  
Rachel E. Laxer ◽  
Jessica Lee ◽  
Daniel W. Harrington ◽  
Heather E. Manson
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Program Implementation ◽  
Component Community ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
Health Promotion Programs ◽  
Local Program ◽  
Program Leadership

(1) Background: To explore factors contributing to the Healthy Kids Community Challenge (HKCC) program implementation; (2) Methods: Data were collected through a quantitative survey (n = 124) and in-depth telephone interviews (n = 16) with program providers. Interviews were recorded and transcribed for thematic analysis using NVivo; (3) Results: Provincial funding and in-kind support from community partners were key. Initiatives were feasible to implement, and key messages were well-received by communities. Specific practices and process were commonly discussed, and strong local program leadership was crucial to implementation; (4) Conclusions: Results have implications for planning and implementing future multi-component, community-based health promotion programs that include similar partnerships.

Navigating Between Rigour and Community-Based Research Partnerships: Building the Evaluation of the Uniting Our Nations Health Promotion Program for FNMI Youth

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire V. Crooks ◽  
Angela Snowshoe ◽  
Debbie Chiodo ◽  
Candace Brunette-Debassige
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Health Promotion Program ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Research Partnerships ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
School Based ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Health Promotion Programs

Our team has worked closely with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit (FNMI) community partners and our local school board over the past 9 years to develop a range of strengths-based health promotion programs for FNMI youth. This article begins with a brief description of our school-based programming to provide context. Next, we identify challenges in conducting rigorous program evaluation and highlight the requirements of community-based research partnerships. Finally, we identify a number of factors that have helped us achieve a balance between the frameworks of rigour and community-based research partnerships. Throughout the paper we use examples from our projects to illustrate issues.

Community-based health promotion programs for people with disabilities: Mapping the literature landscape

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. e14-e15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana J. Peterson ◽  
Charles Drum ◽  
Gloria L. Krahn ◽  
Susan Wingenfeld ◽  
Tom W. Seekins
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Health Promotion Programs

The Shape up Challenge: A Community-Based Worksite Exercise Competition

1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan M. Blake ◽  
Carl J. Caspersen ◽  
John Finnegan ◽  
Richard A. Crow ◽  
Maurice B. Mittlemark ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Program ◽  
Employee Participation ◽  
Behavioral Risk ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Exercise Maintenance ◽  
Health Promotion Programs ◽  
Work Units ◽  
Heart Health Program

Purpose. To assess organizational and employee participation during three community-wide worksite exercise competitions in two communities. Design. A one-group, posttest-only design was used. Lack of controls, exercise baseline, and the short-term nature of the interventions were limitations. Setting. The Minnesota Heart Health Program conducted annual exercise campaigns between 1982 and 1989 within three intervention communities to reduce behavioral risk for cardiovascular disease. The Shape Up Challenge was a worksite exercise competition designed, in conjunction with other campaign activities, to increase levels of physical activity. Subjects. A total of 119 participating companies in two Minnesota communities, and 17,626 employees within these worksites, composed the subjects in this study. Intervention. Eligible worksites were invited to participate in a month-long competition during which employees recorded minutes spent daily in aerobic activities. Incentives were established to promote intragroup cooperation and intergroup competition. Companies competed for awards that were based on average minutes of exercise per employee versus per participant. Measures. Numbers of companies recruited and participating, campaign activities, minutes of exercise, and costs were recorded on implementation logs. Companies completed surveys describing business type, number and sex of employees, existing health promotion programs, and perceived benefits of participation. Results. Of the 365 companies invited to participate, 33 % participated (range 15 % to 50%). Participating companies were more likely than nonparticipating companies to offer other health promotion programs and perceived greater benefits from participation. Women and smaller companies had significantly greater participation rates than men and larger companies. Average employee participation rates ranged from as high as 84% in smaller organizations to as low as 16% as organization size increased. Conclusions. Community-based worksite exercise competitions appear to be a viable strategy for promoting employee exercise, particularly in smaller companies. Group-based contingencies applied in natural work units may facilitate employee participation. Further research is needed to assess the relative efficacy of this approach, compare alternative incentives, and identify strategies to enhance exercise maintenance after the intervention has ceased.

Achieving Population Health Impacts Through Health Promotion Programs Offered by Community-based Organizations

Medical Care ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda L. Brewster ◽  
Traci L. Wilson ◽  
Leslie A. Curry ◽  
Suzanne R. Kunkel
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Health Promotion Programs

Community-based men’s health promotion programs: eight lessons learnt and their caveats

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 1230-1240 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L Oliffe ◽  
Emma Rossnagel ◽  
Joan L Bottorff ◽  
Suzanne K Chambers ◽  
Cristina Caperchione ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
Men’S Health ◽  
Men's Health ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
Health Promotion Programs ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Future Work

Abstract Long-standing commentaries about men’s reticence for accessing clinical medical services, along with the more recent recognition of men’s health inequities, has driven work in community-based men’s health promotion. Indeed, the 2000s have seen rapid growth in community-based programs targeting men, and across this expanse of innovative work, experiential and empirical insights afford some important lessons learnt, and caveats to guide existing and future efforts. The current article offers eight lessons learnt regarding the design, content, recruitment, delivery, evaluation and scaling of community-based men’s health promotion programs. Design lessons include the need to address social determinants of health and men’s health inequities, build activity-based programming, garner men’s permission and affirmation to shift masculine norms, and integrate content to advance men’s health literacy. Also detailed are lessons learnt about men-friendly spaces, recruitment and retention strategies, the need to incrementally execute program evaluations, and the limits for program sustainability and scaling. Drawing from diverse community-based programs to illustrate the lessons learnt, caveats are also detailed to contextualize and caution some aspects of the lessons that are shared. The express aim of discussing lessons learnt and their caveats, reflected in the purpose of the current article, is to guide existing and future work in the ever growing field of community-based men’s health promotion.

scholarly journals Beyond Workers’ Compensation

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Oliffe ◽  
Christina S. E. Han
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Indirect Costs ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mental Health Promotion ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Workplace Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion Programs

The mental health of men is an important issue with significant direct and indirect costs emerging from work-related depression and suicide. Although the merits of men’s community-based and workplace mental health promotion initiatives have been endorsed, few programs are mandated or formally evaluated and reported on. Conspicuously absent also are gender analyses detailing connections between masculinities and men’s work-related depression and suicide on which to build men-centered mental health promotion programs. This article provides an overview of four interconnected issues, (a) masculinities and men’s health, (b) men and work, (c) men’s work-related depression and suicide, and (d) men’s mental health promotion, in the context of men’s diverse relationships to work (including job insecurity and unemployment). Based on the review, recommendations are made for advancing the well-being of men who are in as well as of those out of work.

scholarly journals The Danish SoL Project: Effects of a Multi-Component Community-Based Health Promotion Intervention on Prevention of Overweight among 3–8-Year-Old Children

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (16) ◽  
pp. 8419
Author(s):  
Tine Buch-Andersen ◽  
Frank Eriksson ◽  
Paul Bloch ◽  
Charlotte Glümer ◽  
Bent Egberg Mikkelsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Health Promotion Intervention ◽  
Component Community ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Z Scores ◽  
And Control ◽  
Over Time

The aim of the study was to determine the effects of a multi-component community-based health promotion intervention on body mass index (BMI) z-scores and waist circumference (WC) in three- to eight-year-old children. A quasi-experimental design was adopted to evaluate the effects of the SoL intervention involving three intervention and three control communities. The 19-month intervention was based on the supersetting approach and was designed to promote healthier eating and physical activity among children and their families. BMI z-scores and WC were measured at baseline and follow-up. At baseline, 238 (54%) and 214 (51%) of all eligible children were measured from intervention and control, respectively. The change over time in the BMI z-scores of children from the intervention group was significantly different from that of the control group (p = 0.001). BMI z-scores increased over time in the intervention group in contrast to the control group, whose BMI z-scores decreased (difference in change between groups 0.19 z-scores 95% CI 0.08, 0.30). No significant differences were observed for WC. The results showed no favourable effects of the intervention of Project SoL on BMI z-scores and WC in children. Further studies based on a larger sample size and a longer intervention duration are needed.

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