Compassion in Interprofessional Health Education is a Lagged Trigger to Quality Health and Well-being

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Martin Manyanza Nzilibili ◽  
Qurnia Andayani
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
Interprofessional Health Education ◽  
Health And Well Being

Games in Health Education

2010 ◽  
pp. 106-118
Author(s):  
Margot Kaszap
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Educational Games ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Social Representation Theory ◽  
Learning At Home ◽  
Health And Well Being

Studies indicate that teachers are not effectively encouraging appropriate health and well-being strategies among their students (Turcotte, Gaudreau, & Otis, 2007). Because educational games offer many advantages in promoting health, motivation, and active participation in learning, (Sauvé, Power, IsaBelle, Samson, & St-Pierre, 2002), it is important to determine which types of games health education teachers can use best. Building on health education needs and social representation theory, this chapter presents a study of pre-service (student) teachers to identify social representations that pre-service teachers have about games, including whether they perceived games as supporting learning at home and in school, and which types and aspects of games they preferred. The answers to these questions helped the research team to create games to meet the needs of future teachers in enhancing their students’ health education.

scholarly journals The Role of Nature-Based Solutions for Improving Environmental Quality, Health and Well-Being

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 10950
Author(s):  
Hai-Ying Liu ◽  
Marion Jay ◽  
Xianwen Chen
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
Health And Well Being

Nature-based solutions (NbS) have been positioned and implemented in urban areas as solutions for enhancing urban resilience in the face of a wide range of urban challenges. However, there is a lack of recommendations of optimal NbS and appropriate typologies fitting to different contexts and urban design. The analytical frameworks for NbS implementation and impact evaluation, that integrate NbS into local policy frameworks, socio-economic transition pathways, and spatial planning, remain fragmented. In this article, the NbS concept and its related terminologies are first discussed. Second, the types of NbS implemented in Europe are reviewed and their benefits over time are explored, prior to categorizing them and highlighting the key methods, criteria, and indicators to identify and assess the NbS’s impacts, co-benefits, and trade-offs. The latter involved a review of the websites of 52 projects and some relevant publications funded by EU Research and Innovation programs and other relevant publications. The results show that there is a shared understanding that the NbS concept encompasses benefits of restoration and rehabilitation of ecosystems, carbon neutrality, improved environmental quality, health and well-being, and evidence for such benefits. This study also shows that most NbS-related projects and activities in Europe use hybrid approaches, with NbS typically developed, tested, or implemented to target specific types of environmental–social–economic challenges. The results of this study indicate that NbS as a holistic concept would be beneficial in the context of climate action and sustainable solutions to enhance ecosystem resilience and adaptive capacity within cities. As such, this article provides a snapshot of the role of NbS in urban sustainability development, a guide to the state-of-the-art, and key messages and recommendations of this rapidly emerging and evolving field.

The power of appreciation: promoting schoolchildren’s health literacy

2016 ◽  
Vol 116 (6) ◽  
pp. 611-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catrine Kostenius ◽  
Ulrika Bergmark
Keyword(s):  
Health Literacy ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Century ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Know How ◽  
Action Awareness ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore Swedish children’s positive experiences of health and well-being, and their thoughts on how health literacy can be promoted. Design/methodology/approach Totally, 121 schoolchildren between the ages of 10 and 14 from three schools in two municipalities in the northern part of Sweden shared their lived experiences through individual written reflections. Findings The phenomenological analysis resulted in one theme, appreciation as fuel for health and well-being, and four sub-themes: feeling a sense of belonging; being cared for by others; being respected and listened to; and feeling valued and confirmed. The understanding of the schoolchildren’s experiences of health and well-being and their thoughts on how health literacy can be promoted revealed that appreciation in different forms is the key dimension of their experiences of health and well-being. Practical implications The findings of this study point to the necessity of promoting health education that includes reflection and action-awareness of one’s own and others’ health as well as the competence to know how and when to improve their health. Such health education can contribute to the development of health literacy in young people, an essential skill for the twenty-first century. Originality/value This study’s originality is that the authors added the concepts of appreciative inquiry and student voice to the study of health literacy with children.

Schoolchildren’s play – A tool for health education

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margareta Sjöblom ◽  
Lars Jacobsson ◽  
Kerstin Öhrling ◽  
Catrine Kostenius
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Inner Child ◽  
Grade 3 ◽  
Health And Well Being

Objective: The purpose of this study was to gain more knowledge about the phenomenon of the inner child in relation to health and well-being as reflected in play experienced by schoolchildren. Design/method: Participants were 20 schoolchildren recruited from a primary school in a medium-size city in central Sweden. The children who agreed to participate were 14 girls and 6 boys aged between 9 and 10 years old in grade 3. A hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used to analyse the data consisting of the schoolchildren’s drawings and transcribed interviews. Participants’ verbal reflections on their drawings enabled deeper insight into their lived experiences of play. Results: Findings from this study demonstrate how schoolchildren are influenced by the inner child in childhood to handle conflicts, to cope, to make choices, to build relationships to connect and to dream about the future. The schoolchildren in this study developed their coping skills in conflict situations as part of friendship making. Conclusion: The value play offers for health and well-being reveals how schoolchildren are influenced by the inner child in childhood. Gaining knowledge from schoolchildren’s own voices about play makes a worthwhile contribution to research. In addition, the value play provides to schoolchildren’s health and well-being suggest that play can be an important tool as part of health education.

Genetic Exceptionalism and Precision Health Promotion

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 709-712
Author(s):  
Paul E. Terry
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Genetic Testing ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Dna Test ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Precision Health

Are social determinants of health overrated? Is parenting overrated? Will the genetics revolution have the same influence on health behavior as powerful determinants such as culture or the environment? In this editorial, I posit that we will learn that genetic testing will have far greater benefits, and fewer harms, when done in conjunction with well-designed health education and lived experiences. I define precision health promotion as the personalized design of lived experiences that foster improved health and well-being for individuals within the context of their organizations, families, and communities. With the need for education and support to augment genetics information will come the need for unequivocal answers about who should know, and who has no business knowing, about your DNA test results.

scholarly journals Best of Both Worlds

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-171
Author(s):  
Phyllis Kumpf ◽  
Lucille Young-Talbot ◽  
Candice Davenport
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Health Educators ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Health Careers

The purpose of this article is to explore the diverse career paths of three health educators who started their health careers in the nursing profession and advanced their careers by pursuing a degree in health education. With the combination of nursing and the focus on health education to improve the overall health and well being of communities, these health educators have found satisfying and rewarding opportunities in multiple and various work settings.

scholarly journals Centering Ethnic Studies in Health Education: Lessons From Teaching an Asian American Community Health Course

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-375
Author(s):  
Dale Dagar Maglalang ◽  
Hillary Nicole Peregrina ◽  
Grace J. Yoo ◽  
Mai-Nhung Le
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Educators ◽  
Urgent Problem ◽  
Health Course ◽  
Health And Well Being

Anti-Asian racism and violence dramatically increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, recent studies and reports are showing that the health and well-being of Asian Americans are negatively affected. To address this urgent problem, the field of health education and public health must be equipped with the critical frameworks and concepts to analyze racism and White supremacy and how it affects the health and well-being of Asian Americans. We argue that using an ethnic studies lens in health education can help educators, researchers, and practitioners teach and train health educators to address racism experienced by Asian Americans during COVID-19 in relation to their health. We will discuss the elements of ethnic studies and demonstrate how to use it as a lens in understanding health disparities in the Asian American population influenced and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Diet Quality, a Term Subject to Change over Time

2012 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 144-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Elmadfa ◽  
Alexa L. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Diet Quality ◽  
Functional Foods ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Quality Factors ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Quality Diet ◽  
Important Quality ◽  
Health And Well Being

A high-quality diet is one of the foundations of health and well-being. For a long time in human history, diet was chiefly a source of energy and macronutrients meant to still hunger and give the strength for work and activities that were in general much harder than nowadays. Only few persons could afford to emphasize enjoyment. In the assessment of quality, organoleptic properties were major criteria to detect spoilage and oxidative deterioration of food. Today, food hygiene is a quality aspect that is often taken for granted by consumers, despite its lack being at the origin of most food-borne diseases. The discovery of micronutrients entailed fundamental changes of the concept of diet quality. However, non-essential food components with additional health functions were still barely known or not considered important until recently. With the high burden of obesity and its associated diseases on the rise, affluent, industrialized countries have developed an increased interest in these substances, which has led to the development of functional foods to optimize special body functions, reduce disease risk, or even contribute to therapeutic approaches. Indeed, nowadays, high contents of energy, fat, and sugar are factors associated with a lower quality of food, and products with reduced amounts of these components are valued by many consumers. At the same time, enjoyment and convenience are important quality factors, presenting food manufacturers with the dilemma of reconciling low fat content and applicability with good taste and appealing appearance. Functional foods offer an approach to address this challenge. Deeper insights into nutrient-gene interactions may enable personalized nutrition adapted to the special needs of individuals. However, so far, a varied healthy diet remains the best basis for health and well-being.

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