International Journal of Health Promotion and Education最新文献

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Michelle Baybutt","doi":"10.1080/14635240.2022.2139930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2022.2139930","url":null,"abstract":"Welcome to the fifth issue of this volume of the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education. There are five papers that bring a diverse mix of topics to this issue. The first paper is A qualitative exploration of interactions with natural environments among immigrant women in Norway by Lorentzen and Viken. It explores the role of nature in improving mental and physical health which is discussed in the context of improving female immigrant population health in Norway. They state that immigrant voices are typically not conveyed in research in the area of nature-connectedness in Norway or other comparable countries arguing the important role of context in transferability of findings in research concerning nature for health. The role of socioeconomic status in a community-based study of diabetes secondary prevention among African Americans is the second paper in which Silberberg et al focus on peer support and professional coaching for African Americans with Type 2 diabetes. They discuss the challenges of reaching socioeconomically diverse racial minority populations and attempting to address diverse needs that require tailored approaches in specific settings to achieve higher levels of health and wellbeing. In the third article There’s an app for that: educational intervention to promote mobile health management app use in rural Ireland by Hawkins and Higgins, a pretest-posttest design was used to examine the effectiveness of educational sessions combined with ‘hands on’ demonstrations of mHealth apps with members of a small community in rural Ireland. They found this was an effective strategy to increase knowledge and remove common barriers in using health promotion apps, to empower individuals to improve their own health. The fourth paper is the Effect of breast self-examination training and follow-up program using the Health Belief Model on Turkish women’s knowledge, attitudes, and practices: A randomized controlled study by Yildirim and Akince. In their sample of 100 women from one region in Turkey, they found that the programmes increased their knowledge about breast health while enhancing their confidence in performing self-examinations. Psychological capital and orientation to happiness as protective factors for coping among first year university students in South Africa acknowledges potential stressors for students adapting to the university environment, culture and academic activities in the final paper in this issue by Asante, Meyer-Weitz and Okafo. Their study highlights the association between optimism, hope and resilience with productive coping in the academic context and the need for constructive psychological resources to support first-year university students. I continue to welcome submissions of original research contribution to the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education.","PeriodicalId":45149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Promotion and Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45463646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of organisational resources for integrating health surveillance data into municipal action in Norway","authors":"A. Schou, H. Hofstad, L. Monkerud","doi":"10.1080/14635240.2022.2107556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2022.2107556","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Making sure that health surveillance data are integrated into public health planning and decision-making is demanding. Politicians and their administration may lack knowledge, interest, or will to take it into account. Politics is at its core solution-driven, and this need for imminent action may outweigh the importance of solid knowledge. This paper focuses on Norwegian municipalities and fleshes out two factors that may provide an enabling environment for educating relevant personnel in health surveillance data; i) the existence of a public health coordinator and ii) the set-up of inter-sectoral working groups. We have anticipated that those organisational resources play an important role in linking the bodies of information provided in the municipalities’ health surveillance document ; the municipal health profile ; and the health promotion priorities. The findings confirm the anticipated centrality of organisational resources. Having dedicated and inter-sectoral organizational resources working as boundary spanners – such as public health coordinators – is decisive to meeting the demands of current public health challenges. Moreover, dedication is useless unless there is a critical volume of the coordinator’s work. It is only when she/he is in a full position that the profile is fully integrated. The study further identifies other conducive conditions for integration. For example, does knowledge on health determinants resides not only in statistical data, but also in qualitative experiences of people and professional practitioners. Of interest for further research is to explore how to educate such organisations to integrate such experiences into health promotion action.","PeriodicalId":45149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Promotion and Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46028774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Knowledge and attitudes towards type 2 diabetes and prevention strategies among regular street food consumers: A cross sectional study in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania","authors":"G. Kagaruki, M. Mahande, G. Kimaro, E. Ngadaya, Mary T Mayige, J. Msovela, K. Kreppel, S. Mfinanga, B. Bonfoh","doi":"10.1080/14635240.2022.2104742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2022.2104742","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Promotion and Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47673235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of social activity in the association between socioeconomic status and physical health in Tehran University of Medical Sciences employees` cohort study: a structural equation modeling","authors":"F. Mehravar, Abbas Rahimiforoushani, M. Vakili, S. Nedjat","doi":"10.1080/14635240.2022.2106288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2022.2106288","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Promotion and Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48136904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cost-effectiveness calculators on health and social services planning and evaluation: an explorative interview study of key informants","authors":"M. Hult, Hanna Kallio, O. Halminen, M. Linna, S. Suominen, M. Kangasniemi","doi":"10.1080/14635240.2022.2105248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2022.2105248","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Promotion and Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42501946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Determinants of maternal health care choice for children with pneumonia: evidence from Vietnam","authors":"Hoài Nguyễn Trọng, T. Lam, T. Dang","doi":"10.1080/14635240.2022.2105247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2022.2105247","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Promotion and Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43777486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Readability of online COVID-19 health information and advice","authors":"K. Bould, Mark J. Forshaw","doi":"10.1080/14635240.2022.2098160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2022.2098160","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Readability is a systematic measure of ease, with which written information can be read and understood. It can affect the reader’s ability to access, comprehend, and utilize health information. This study assessed the readability of online COVID-19 information readily available to the public to engage with. At a time when organisations and institutions were rapidly providing advice and reacting to a developing pandemic, it was hypothesised that some of that haste would be associated with a lack of clarity, as measured by readability indices. N = 65 website sources containing information relating to COVID-19 were accessed and assessed for inclusion in the study. Eight readability indices, including Flesch Reading Ease and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, were calculated to determine readability scores for each source of information. Readability scores varied greatly between individual sources of COVID-19 information. Despite the recommendation that information be presented to the general public at a sixth-grade reading level, most websites we assessed addressing COVID-19 information and advice presented content at greater than the recommended reading level. Based on these results, a significant amount of information available on the Internet about COVID-19 will not be easily readable for many individuals attempting to use the Internet to help inform their decisions about their health and behavior.","PeriodicalId":45149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Promotion and Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41318250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perceptions, experiences, expectations, and challenges of Indian public health programs","authors":"Ritika Tiwari, H. Negandhi, Shanti Dahal, S. Zodpey","doi":"10.1080/14635240.2022.2098161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2022.2098161","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has served as a wake-up call for India’s public health system. Public health if aided by strong political will, academic reforms, and awareness among youth (as a career choice)–will get a boost. Skilled public health professionals would be expected to play a key role in strengthening public health systems. Thus, to bring deep structural health reforms, it is imperative to analyse the perceptions of key public health stakeholders. In this study, we explored stakeholders’ perspectives about public health, and their views regarding the current state of public health education. Thirty-nine semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted during 2017–2018 across India among stakeholders that included students of public health programs, public health professionals (PHPs), faculty of public health institutions, employers of public health graduates, and policymakers. Thematic analysis of the data was undertaken focusing on 10 themes emanating around the focus areas of the study. Public health stakeholders suggested that for building a competent public health workforce there is a need to match supply and demand of PHPs, create job opportunities, institutionalising a large body of guidance such as a separate Ministry or Council of public health (for educational institutions, quality assurance of curriculum etc.). Within India, the public health profession & education remains under-researched. This study is the first from a lower middle income country (LMIC) & from Asia to offer insight about public health programs–from policy, education, and professional perspective.","PeriodicalId":45149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Promotion and Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42980799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A narrative synthesis using the ecological systems theory for understanding a woman’s ability to continue breastfeeding","authors":"J. Jackson, R. Safari, J. Hallam","doi":"10.1080/14635240.2022.2098162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2022.2098162","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Promotion and Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41693250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How do we talk about health? Communicating health and creating supportive environments","authors":"P. Owen","doi":"10.1080/14635240.2022.2088943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2022.2088943","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Promotion and Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41416644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}