scholarly journals The Settings Approach to Health Promotion

2012 ◽  
pp. 1-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence W. Green ◽  
Blake D. Poland ◽  
Irving Rootman
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Settings Approach

Professional practice.

2021 ◽  
pp. 148-185
Author(s):  
James Woodall ◽  
Simon Rowlands
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Settings Approach ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
The Individual

Abstract This book chapter seeks to: (i) explore the role of the settings approach to health promotion and the need for organizational change; (ii) discuss the importance of evidence-based practice and evaluation; (iii) describe some of the ethical issues in practising health promotion; (iv) suggest a means of overcoming the top-down/bottom-up tensions in practice; (v) explore the need for developing partnerships between civil society, NGOs, and private and public sectors; and (vi) outline the skills and competencies of health promoters practising in the 21st century. This chapter has attempted to discuss some challenges in the practice of health promotion, ending on the challenges in terms of the skills required to do health promotion work. Some of these challenges reoccur in the next chapter, particularly when discussing capacity building for health promotion at a societal level rather than the individual level.

Professional practice.

2021 ◽  
pp. 148-185
Author(s):  
James Woodall ◽  
Simon Rowlands
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Settings Approach ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
The Individual

Abstract This book chapter seeks to: (i) explore the role of the settings approach to health promotion and the need for organizational change; (ii) discuss the importance of evidence-based practice and evaluation; (iii) describe some of the ethical issues in practising health promotion; (iv) suggest a means of overcoming the top-down/bottom-up tensions in practice; (v) explore the need for developing partnerships between civil society, NGOs, and private and public sectors; and (vi) outline the skills and competencies of health promoters practising in the 21st century. This chapter has attempted to discuss some challenges in the practice of health promotion, ending on the challenges in terms of the skills required to do health promotion work. Some of these challenges reoccur in the next chapter, particularly when discussing capacity building for health promotion at a societal level rather than the individual level.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and the role of health promoters and educators

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
James Woodall
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Professional Group ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Community Control ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
Settings Approach ◽  
Future Strategy

The role of health promoters and educators in the current and future response to COVID-19 is critical, but, to date, under explored. This opinion paper offers a number of important contributions that this professional group may offer both in the immediate and future strategy of global public health. While the importance of a medical model of health cannot be underplayed, the social model of health suggests that some groups in society are being more disproportionately impacted than others. Health promotion has been committed to reducing inequalities and therefore offers ‘a voice’ to those most marginalised. The paper suggests that bottom-up approaches focusing on building individual and community control is essential and, moreover, the concepts of a settings approach in health promotion, the fostering of critical health literacy and ‘salutogenesis’ may be worthy of further debate and discussion.

Can a Prison Practice Good Public Health?

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Debra Smith ◽  
Jeanette Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Health Practices ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Settings Approach ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Improve Health

This paper provides a description of the health practices that are provided for prisoners in a large rural prison. It takes a model of health promotion using a settings approach to describe these practices and includes descriptions of the barriers to implementing health promoting practices. This paper is concerned only with the health impact of the prison on prisoners, and does not attempt to explore any health issues related to staff. It is also beyond the scope of this paper to consider the impact of privatisation on attempts to improve health in prisons. This paper provides a description of how one prison delivers, or fails to deliver, good public health to its prisoners.

Public health principles for health and disaster risk reduction programmes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Ying Yang Chan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Settings Approach ◽  
Basic Concepts

Public health is a multidisciplinary subject which not only concerns health on an individual level, but also the protection and improvement of the community’s health as a whole. This chapter discusses a number of basic concepts in public health to support conceptualization and building of health and emergency and disaster risk reduction programmes at the field level. This includes the three domains of public health, namely health protection, health improvement, and health services. The different determinants of health, including disease prevention and the epidemiological triangle, and the importance of health promotion (e.g. the Healthy Settings approach) are also covered here.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and the role of health promoters and educators

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
James Woodall
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Professional Group ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Community Control ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
Settings Approach ◽  
Future Strategy

The role of health promoters and educators in the current and future response to COVID-19 is critical, but, to date, under explored. This opinion paper offers a number of important contributions that this professional group may offer both in the immediate and future strategy of global public health. While the importance of a medical model of health cannot be underplayed, the social model of health suggests that some groups in society are being more disproportionately impacted than others. Health promotion has been committed to reducing inequalities and therefore offers ‘a voice’ to those most marginalised. The paper suggests that bottom-up approaches focusing on building individual and community control is essential and, moreover, the concepts of a settings approach in health promotion, the fostering of critical health literacy and ‘salutogenesis’ may be worthy of further debate and discussion.

scholarly journals Health Promoting Sports Club in Practice: A Controlled Evaluation of the GAA Healthy Club Project

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 4786
Author(s):  
Aoife Lane ◽  
Niamh Murphy ◽  
Colin Regan ◽  
David Callaghan
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Sports Club ◽  
Health Promotion Activity ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Settings Approach ◽  
Controlled Evaluation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Control

Sport is a developing setting and a relevant system in health promotion but there are few examples of settings-based initiatives and systems thinking in sport. The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) Healthy Club Project (HCP) adopts a settings approach delivered through and by grassroots clubs who respond to local needs while working within a national support system. The aim of this evaluation was to assess and describe the health promotion impact and experience of the HCP. Healthy Clubs (n = 23) and Control Clubs (n = 10) completed a Healthy Club Questionnaire at the start and end of the 20-month HCP and Healthy Clubs took part in focus group discussions. Healthy Clubs, using the structures of the HCP, a commitment to health and community engagement, demonstrated a significant improvement in their overall orientation to health promotion, which was not apparent in Control Clubs. The health promotion message is pervading into many aspects of the GAA club apart from that which relates to the day to day business of coaching and providing physical activity for all. The HCP represents health promotion activity embedded within and across systems, with further development and evaluation recommended to measure delivery and impact at the individual level, organisational, and wider societal levels.

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