Effectiveness Of Health Promotion Activities Research Articles

Public Health Promotion and Education with Hypertension Awareness in West Jakarta Indonesia

The present study reports are the comprehensive study on the awareness of hypertension which is a dangerous disease with an increase in blood pressure above normal values. According to the study, hypertension is an increase in systolic blood pressure of about 140 mmHg or diastolic pressure of about 90 mmHg. Hypertension is a problem that needs to be watched out for, because there are no specific signs of hypertension and some people still feel healthy to carry out their usual activities. This is what makes hypertension a silent killer by data of Indonesia Ministry of Health, 2018, people will realize they have hypertension when the symptoms they feel are getting worse and go to health services. The purpose of this health promotion is to provide information and education to the public about hypertension and its prevention in Tegal Alur Village, Kali Deres District, West Jakarta. Health promotion activities are carried out online using the online via zoom meet application with lecture, question and answer and discussion methods. To determine the effectiveness of health promotion activities, such healthy living community movement or known as Germas, to the community members were given a questionnaire before (pre-test) and after the activity (post-test). Based on the post-test results, it was found that there was an increase in knowledge about hypertension. Plans and achievement targets for the follow-up to the implementation of this activity can be carried out in collaboration with all parties, namely the government, campuses and the wider surrounding community to create a community movement in creating behavior and awareness of hypertension prevention itself.

Estratégia saúde da família: iniciativa pública destinada a populações vulneráveis para garantia do direto à saúde - uma revisão crítica da literatura

A Estratégia Saúde da Família (ESF) foi criada com o intuito de reorganizar o conceito de Atenção Básica no país com base princípio fundamental da equidade, integralidade e universalidade. Objetivo: identificar melhorias na qualidade de vida da população após a implantação da Estratégia Saúde da Família como tática para garantir o direito à saúde. Métodos: Revisão crítica da literatura nas bases de dados PubMed, LILACS, Web of Knowledge e CINAHL. Foram selecionados 12 estudos realizados no Brasil, no período de 2006 a 2011. Resultados: Nos lugares em que ocorreu a implantação do PSF houve uma sensível melhora na qualidade de vida dos indivíduos assistidos, suas famílias e comunidades. Os dados indicam a efetividade das ações de promoção à saúde implementadas por toda a equipe, em seus vários ramos de atuação, demonstrando que a ESF busca assegurar o efetivo cumprimento do direito à saúde voltando-se para o indivíduo de forma integral, assistindo-o em seus diversos níveis de complexidade e em seu próprio contexto social familiar e cultural. Conclusão: A ESF é uma estratégia nova e ainda passa por grandes dificuldades, entretanto é grande a sua potencialidade como agente de transformação de realidade e sustentação dos direitos dos indivíduos e populações, dentre eles o direito à saúde.

Self-perceived health and clinical characteristics in young adult students from the Brazilian northeast

To analyze the association between socioeconomic situation, clinical characteristics referred and the family history of cardiovascular disease, with the Self-perceived health of young adults education and their implications for clinical characteristics observed. Analytical study conducted with 501 young adults who are students in countryside city in the Brazilian Northeast. We used binary logistic regression. The final model explained 83.3% of the self-perceived positive health, confirming the association of Self-perceived health with male, residence in the community, have excellent/very good lifestyle and does not have or do not know that there are cases of stroke in the family. Health perception was often optimistic, being important to identify devices to be worked closer to their perception of their actual health condition, increasing the effectiveness of health promotion activities undertaken by professionals.

Facilitating effective health promotion practice in a public health unit: lessons from the field

Health promotion is a core function of public health services and improving the effectiveness of health promotion services is an essential part of public health service development. This report describes the rationale, the process and the outcomes of a realignment designed to improve the effectiveness of health promotion activities in a public health unit (PHU) in New Zealand. A practice environment analysis revealed several factors that were hindering the effectiveness of the health promotion unit's (HPU) activities. Two primary change mechanisms were implemented. The first was an outcomes-focused model of planning and service delivery (to support evidenced-based practice), the second was the reorganisation of the HPU from a topics-based structure to an integrated one based on a multi-risk factor paradigm of population health. During the realignment barriers were encountered on multiple levels. At the individual level, unfavourable attitudes to changes occurred because of a lack of information and knowledge about the benefits of evidence and research. At higher levels, barriers included resourcing concerns, a lack of organisational commitment and understanding, and tensions between the political need for expedient change and research and development need for timely consideration of the impact of different models of practice. This realignment took place within the context of a changing public health environment, which is significantly altering the delivery of public health and health promotion. Realignments designed to facilitate more effective health promotion and public health practice will continue, but need to do so in the light of others' experience and debate.

Studying the striving and opposing forces in newspaper journalism: the actantial model of health promotion

The cultural aspects of health promotion are important in policy development as well as in assessing effectiveness of health promotion activities. The discourses on promoting health and well-being in journalism reflect the health promotion culture in society. This article illustrates how health promotion is portrayed by 147 newspaper items from the two Finnish quality dailies during the period 2002-2004 and introduces a semiotic Actantial Model of Health Promotion (AMHP) for studying health promotion cultures. The most popular news themes on health promotion were physical and social environment, welfare services, nutrition and obesity, and mental well-being. The actants (actors, actions and abstract factor) of health promotion were identified and the AMHP with seven key actants (generator, health-object, public, tool, executor, threat and obstacle) was constructed. The model sheds light on two sides of health promotion discourses in journalism. The dominant culture of health promotion was represented by policy actions, information, education and scientific research, which were defined by health experts, decision-makers and researchers. Representations of the opposite culture--'the otherness' of health promotion included external harmful factors and unhealthy behaviours, mentalities opposed to being health-oriented, rationally uncontrolled living, disorder, disharmony and insecurity. The opposing factors were presented by people and institutions lacking the will, ability or motivation for a health-oriented life. To understand better the values of health promotion, it is necessary to assess the characteristics of the opposite side of health promotion culture, because the current dominant values can be described more clearly by the boundaries--by 'otherness'. The study argues that the AMHP can be used as a semiotic method to identify the value dimensions and the boundaries between the dominant and the opposite discourses of health promotion in various communications such as advertising and health education. Also, it provides a tool for the analysis of the media's role in 'victimization' or 'heroization' of various population groups.

Truancy, grade point average, and sexual activity: a meta-analysis of risk indicators for youth substance use.

Society increasingly holds schools responsible for the effectiveness of health promotion activities, such as drug abuse prevention efforts funded through the federal Safe and Drug-Free Schools program. Consequently, school districts use student surveys as a method for assessing trends and evaluating effects of programs on behavior. Because cost and practical concerns often preclude consistent population-based school survey sampling, risk indicators can provide an essential tool in analyzing needs assessment and program evaluation data. In this paper, three risk measures associated with substance use were selected from among commonly used school surveys. These measures--truancy, grade point average, and recent sexual intercourse--were compared, using meta-analysis techniques, to assess the reliability of risk measures across different survey instruments, different communities, and different points in time. Truancy was judged superior, because of its strong predictive value, particularly among younger students, and because rates can be compared to school records to assess sampling validity over time.

New horizons for health: from vision to practice

The 16th World Conference of Health Promotion and Health Education held in June 1998 in Puerto Rico analyzed New Horizons for Health: From Vision to Practice. With a focus on the experiences of Latin American countries the conference considered the topics of equity empowerment environment economy and future challenges. This paper highlights the issues that dominated conference discussions including efforts of the health promotion movement to 1) give ample focus to conceptualization processes and the definition of the philosophical and strategic aspects of health promotion; 2) institutionalize programs in government private and community-based organizations; and 3) strengthen the ideology of social and community participation. Global-level barriers to health promotion include a lack of consensus on the extent and effectiveness of health promotion activities in various countries the need to develop and use efficient mechanisms to evaluate health promotion activities a lack of governmental support in the form of adequate resources and difficulties implementing health promotion intervention strategies.

Improving infant health; The effectiveness of health promotion activities to reduce stillbirth, infant mortality and morbidity: a literature review

Improving infant health; The effectiveness of health promotion activities to reduce stillbirth, infant mortality and morbidity: a literature review

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article:Childhood asthma and other wheezing disorders. Editor: Michael Silverman.Improving infant health: the effectiveness of health promotion activities to reduce stillbirth, infant mortality and morbidity: a literature review. J. Garcia, M. France‐Dawson and A. Macfarlane.Where to be bom? The debate and the evidence (2nd Edition). Rona Campbell and Alison Macfarlane.Temperament in Childhood. Editors: Geldolph A. Kohnstamm, John E. Bates and Mary Klevjord Rothbart.