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	Health promotion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Health promotion is the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health.
		Optimal health is defined as a balance of physical, emotion, social, spiritual and intellectual health.
		Some health researchers and advocates stress the importance of community development and "facilitating a process whereby communities use their voice to define and make their health concerns known." (Lawrence Wallack, quoted in Minkler) Meredith Minkler is a prominent advocate of this approach, which is also closely tied the Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Health_promotion (232 words)

	American Journal of Health Promotion
		The goal of our organization is to raise the standard of health promotion research and practice through publications, meetings and public service.
		The American Journal of Health Promotion, was launched in 1986 as the first peer reviewed journal devoted to health promotion and it remains the largest, with subscribers in all 50 United States and about 40 other countries.
		Our editorial goal is to provide a forum for the many diverse disciplines that contribute to health promotion and to reduce the gap between health promotion research and practice.
	www.healthpromotionjournal.com (260 words)

	Health promotion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Health promotion is also known as health education and information-education-communication (IEC).
		Health promotion works through advocacy to ensure that appropriate policies and legislation are in place, and through community development and participatory programmes at community level to ensure that strategies are culturally appropriate and "do-able".
		Training of health delivery staff, for example in providing client-centred consultation, is also usually a key element of a health promotion programme.
	www.eldis.org /health/healthpromotion.htm (754 words)

	SAGE Publications - Health Promotion Practice
		Health Promotion Practice will serve as a forum to explore the applications of health promotion/public health education interventions programs and best practice strategies in various settings, including but not limited to: community, health care, worksite, educational and international settings.
		Prior to that he was Director, Division of Health Promotion and Education since 1986 and before this held the position of Director of the Maine Diabetes Control Project.
		He has written and spoken on community interventions for health promotion, third party reimbursement and financing for health education, quality assurance for health promotion and education, and policy and advocacy approaches in health promotion.
	www.sagepub.co.uk /journal.aspx?pid=105572 (697 words)

	The houston health club Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sufferers of mental illness, their families and carers have delivered a disturbing message to the federal government: the mental health system is broken and failing millions of australians every day.
		A day after general motors reached a tentative agreement with its main labor union to reduce health costs, rival daimlerchrysler indicated tuesday it is interested in talks with the united auto workers on cost savings.
		houston health club - Sufferers of mental illness, their families and carers have delivered a disturbing message to the federal government: the mental health system is broken and failing millions of australians every day.
	health-2.find-what200.us (512 words)

	SHS - Office Health Promotion
		The Office of Health Promotion seeks to be a visible, credible resource for health and wellness education, information and opportunities through:
		Reducing the incidence of perventable disease, illness and injury and maintaining the health of all students.
		By encouraging students to examine the long term consequences of their health choices OHP strives to spark questions about unhealthy campus traditions and to challenge societal norms which compromise students' health and well-being.
	www.studenthealth.utah.edu /health.html (280 words)

	Vol. 2, No. 5, Nov/Dec 1999
		Both health education and health promotion were often seen as the same thing, and later on, health education was seen as a contradictory approach whose focus on individual behaviour change placed the responsibility on individuals to make choices that would maintain or improve their health status.
		Furthermore, in all Health Promotion activities it is important to recognize the varying levels of behaviour among societies.
		Health education is part of the curricula of general basic education (EGB) and high school (Polimodal), included in the area of biological sciences.
	www.healthpromotionjournal.com /publications/global/2000-09 (6198 words)

	Health Promotion Hot-Links
		It is a large aspect of my work as a health promotion consultant, to assist people working in the health promotion field to find the resources and networks that enable them to do their work and to improve the health and well-being of their communities and organizations.
		The Jakarta Declaration on Health Promotion into the 21st Century [http://www.who.int/hpr/archive/docs/jakarta/english.html] The 4th International Conference on Health promotion in Jakarta is the first to be held in a developing country, and the first to involve the private sector in supporting health promotion.
		Institute for Health Promotion Research [http://www.ihpr.ubc.ca/] Based at University of British Columbia, this centre's mission statement is: To provide a UBC focus for interdisciplinary collaboration on research, education, and community partnerships in health promotion.
	www.web.net /~stirling (2943 words)

	The WWW VL Public Health: Selected Topics - Worksite health promotion
		The public health virtual library is now updated and hosted by the UNSW School of Public Health.
		Since 1974, AWHP members have been advancing worksite health promotion throughout the world, and advancing their own careers through the many educational, resource and recognition opportunities offered by AWHP" - this organization is very much in the tradition of employee assistance programs (EAP) and of wellness and fitness programs, i.e.
		The Society's goal is to promote human welfare through the various applications of psychology to all types of organizations providing goods and services, such as manufacturing concerns, commercial enterprises, labor unions or trade associations, and public agencies.
	www.ldb.org /vl/top/top-whpr.htm (523 words)

	Health :: Western Illinois Area Agency on Aging :: WIAAA
		Definition: The service is provided to promote better health among older persons through the assessment of their current health condition, identifying individuals at health risk and linking the older individual to the health care system to provide treatment and/or education related to their condition.
		The focus is to educate older persons, and their care givers, on the importance of good nutrition practices and the importance of nutrition and its impact on their health to keep older persons healthy and active.
		Dance movement therapy means the use of psychotherapeutic movement as a process facilitated by a dance-movement therapist, to further the emotional, cognitive, or physical health of an older individual.
	www.wiaaa.org /oaa_services/health.htm (1153 words)

	Health Education & Promotion
		Confidential, individual peer health education and referrals to campus and community resources are available on a variety of issues, including sexual health, contraception, fitness, nutrition, alcohol and other drugs, stress management and other wellness topics.
		Peer health educators are available to facilitate small and large group presentations, workshops and educational theater for residence halls, fraternities, sororities and other student organizations.
		Free health promotion materials on a variety of topics are available at both Health Education and Promotion offices.
	healthcenter.ucdavis.edu /hep (449 words)

	Home Page
		We are interested in all aspects of health promotion.
		focuses on a comprehensive, social ecological approach to workplace health promotion wherein the individual, the physical environment, the organizational environment, and the community are all seen as integral components in creating a healthy workplace.
		Since 1999, researchers from the Health Promotion Center have been participating in a major health study of on individual susceptibility to nicotine addiction in adolescents and young adults as part of the Transdisciplinary Core of the UCI Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center.
	www.healthpromotioncenter.uci.edu (287 words)

	WHO \| Promoting health
		Health promotion strategies are not limited to a specific health problem, nor to a specific set of behaviours.
		Health promotion, and the associated efforts put into education, community development, policy, legislation and regulation, are equally valid for prevention of communicable diseases, injury and violence, and mental problems, as they are for prevention of noncommunicable diseases.
		Our goal is to promote higher levels of physical activity within the world population of all ages and conditions, men and women, in all life settings.
	www.who.int /healthpromotion/en (362 words)

	Home : Health Promotion Forum of New Zealand
		Health Promotion Forum is a national umbrella organisation for health promotion in Aotearoa-New Zealand working for a healthier society.
		We provide national leadership and support for good health promotion practice consistent with the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Ottawa Charter.
		The conference developed the new Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion which is intended to stand alongside the Ottawa Charter.
	www.hpforum.org.nz (265 words)

	Health Promotion
		The two main aims are to improve the health of the population as a whole, and to improve the health of the worst off in society, to narrow the health gap.
		The Health Promotion Unit (HPU) Ireland was established in 1998 and is involved with policy development, research and evaluation and raising awareness of lifestyle issues through multi-media information campaigns and the development of materials for the public.
		Health and science topics are presented in a way that makes them suitable for adaptation or inclusion in teaching programmes, and there is a teachers' section outlining how to use this and other sites in the classroom.
	omni.ac.uk /browse/mesh/D006293.html (9203 words)

	Health Promotion
		Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over the determinants of health and thereby improve their health.
		To reach a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being an individual or group must be able to identify and realise aspirations, to satisfy needs and to change or cope with the environment.
		Definition from: Nutbeam, D (1986) Health Promotion Glossary.
	www.health.nsw.gov.au /public-health/health-promotion (142 words)

	Health Promotion Hertfordshire homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Health Promotion Hertfordshire is an information and resource service for NHS staff and other professionals working in Hertfordshire with an interest in promoting the health of the population of
		We have provided this website as part of our remit of ensuring that health promotion information is available to the population of Hertfordshire and to help meet the needs of busy health professionals who are searching for evidence based information and resources on specific health promotion areas.
		Topics cover all national and local priorities with links to local initiatives, national service frameworks, research and reports plus each topic is linked to a section of resources suitable for health promoters to use in cascading information to the public.
	www.nhsinherts.nhs.uk /hp (368 words)

	Stay Healthy - Patient UK
		Health promotion is about keeping healthy, living a healthy lifestyle, preventing illness, and preventing any existing illness from becoming worse.
		Immunisation is also an important aspect of health promotion and this website includes information leaflets about the common immunisations.
		Fast Forward is a charitable organisation which promotes health through quality education by, with and for young people, focusing on the prevention of drug alcohol and tobacco misuse.
	www.patient.co.uk /showdoc/16 (1192 words)

	Australian Health Promotion Association
		The mission of the Australian Health Promotion Association is to provide knowledge, resources and perspectives needed to improve health promotion research and practice.
		To develop and comment upon existing and proposed health promotion policy and programs in the wider community and to advocate for contemporary directions.
		A broad national picture of Indigenous health is presented in the report, and disparities in the health and welfare of Indigenous Australians compared with their non-Indigenous counterparts are explored.
	www.healthpromotion.org.au (736 words)

	CDC - Health Promotion
		CDC is committed to programs that reduce the health and economic consequences of the leading causes of death and disability and ensure a long, productive, healthy life for all people.
		Good nutrition is vital to good health, disease prevention, and essential for healthy growth and development of children and adolescents....
		Progress in preventing and recovering from the nation's worst health and social problems is likely to benefit from understanding that many of these problems arise as a consequence of adverse childhood experiences...
	www.cdc.gov /node.do/id/0900f3ec80059b1a (400 words)

	CAMH: Health Promotion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Health promotion resources: useful information, links and contacts related to health promotion theory and practice within the mental health and addiction fields
		Community health promotion: innovative and practical tools, resources, links and approaches to engaging in health promotion in community settings
		Workplace health promotion: information, tools and services for employees, co-workers and employers concerned about the impact of mental health and addiction issues in the workplace.
	www.camh.net /health_promotion (291 words)

	Centre for Health Promotion
		The Centre for Health Promotion (Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto), established in 1989, is a community-academic partnership.
		The Health Communication Unit (TCHU) is a provincial resource centre funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care, that provides training and support in health communication.
		The Ontario Health Promotion Summer School is offered annually and celebrated its 10th anniversary in June of 2003.
	www.utoronto.ca /chp (352 words)

	Native wellness and spirituality conferences and trainings - Health Promotion Programs at the University of Oklahoma
		Health Promotion Programs (HPP) was established at the University of Oklahoma in 1985 to meet the growing needs in health promotion and wellness for Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and First Nations people.
		In addition, HPP was one of the first organizations to recognize the need for and, subsequently, conduct a Native Diabetes Prevention Conference, starting back in 1996.
		Recognized as the leader in Native wellness and health promotion, HPP works tirelessly to keep the circle strong and draws heavily upon the experience and vision of the program's Planning Circle.
	hpp.ou.edu (138 words)

	Oxford Journals \| Medicine \| Health Promotion International
		Health Promotion International responds to the move for a new public health throughout the world and supports the development of action outlined in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion.
		The quarterly journal is is an Official Journal of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education, and is published in association with the World Health Organization.
		Adaptation and use of the Health Promotion International logo for the cover design kindly granted by the World Health Organization.
	heapro.oupjournals.org (197 words)

	Health Promotion
		Consumer psychologists can contribute to health promotion and disease prevention through: (1) basic research to expand our understanding of cognitive representations and effective interventions; and (2) applied research to assess the effectiveness of various interventions and ways to more effectively implement what is already known about promoting health and preventing disease.
		K.D. McCaul (Ph.D., University of Kansas) is a frequent contributor to the literature in Health Psychology.
		With an understanding of the factors associated with the creation of strong attitudes from basic research, the techniques used health promotion are categorized by their likelihood of inducing relatively strong vs. relatively weak health-related attitudes.
	fisher.osu.edu /marketing/scp/Health.html (5298 words)

	Health Promotion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Association for Worksite Health Promotion AWHP is a not-for-profit network of worksite health promotion professionals dedicated to sharing the best-of-practice methods, processes and technologies.
		Institue of Health Promotion Research Their mission is to provide a UBC focus for interdisciplinary collaboration on research, education, and community partnerships in health promotion.
		Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion ODPHP works to strengthen the disease prevention and health promotion priorities within the collaborative framework of the HHS agencies.
	www.siu.edu /departments/bushea/HealthProm.html (269 words)

	Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Institute of Health Promotion Research works under different pillars of research, perhaps most readily defined as the five pillars of research outlined by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research: the community, the workplace, schools, the clinical setting, and international settings.
		IHPR is unique in BC in terms of the breadth and magnitude of its research and teaching efforts in the area of health promotion and population health.
		Copyright © 2005 Institute of Health Promotion Research at the University of British Columbia.
	www.ihpr.ubc.ca (82 words)

	VicHealth
		VicHealth is committed to promoting the health and wellbeing of all Victorians.
		Health promotion is a powerful, cost-effective and efficient way to maintain a healthier community.
		VicHealth is The Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, and is the peak body for health promotion in Victoria.
	www.vichealth.vic.gov.au (211 words)

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