Content of Brazilian supermarket circulars do not reflect national dietary guidelines
AbstractPrevious research on foods advertised in supermarket circulars revealed that advertisement for foods at promotional prices influence food choices and shopping behaviour, but no paper reporting the Latin American context was identified. Furthermore, most studies only assessed the products advertised on the front pages and not in the entire circulars. This paper quantifies and categorizes, according to level of processing, the foods advertised in circulars from four Brazilian supermarket chains in order to assess their compatibility with the national dietary guidelines issued by the Ministry of Health. Printed and on...
Source: Health Promotion International - October 3, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Matrix of essential competencies in health promotion: a proposal for the Brazilian context
AbstractThe article presents a Matrix of Essential Competencies in Health Promotion, directed to the context of Brazilian health professionals (CompEPS). It is a methodological study, carried out from September 2017 to March 2018. The validation of the matrix was guided by the Delphi methodology, by electronic means, and the use of the Google Forms tool. Thirty-nine professors of Higher Education Institutions, with representation from all regions of the country, composed the panel of experts. The initial material that triggered the preparation of the Matrix was the European document originating from the Developing Competen...
Source: Health Promotion International - October 3, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Men ’s health literacy: a review and recommendations
AbstractAlthough men ’s health promotion efforts have attracted programmatic and evaluative research, conspicuously absent are gendered insights to men’s health literacy. The current scoping review article shares the findings drawn from 12 published articles addressing men’s health literacy in a range of health an d illness contexts. Evident was consensus that approaches tailored to men’s everyday language and delivered in familiar community-based spaces were central to advancing men’s health literacy, and, by extension, the effectiveness of men’s health promotion programs. However, most men’s health literacy...
Source: Health Promotion International - September 26, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
A system dynamic perspective of stop –start prevention interventions in Australia
In this study, we use a system dynamic perspective to explore the effects of stop –start funding over system behaviour in two community-based initiatives designed to prevent chronic diseases and obesity. We conducted a qualitative exploratory study using complexity theory as an analytical lens of two Healthy Together Communities (HTCs) initiatives in Victoria, Australia. Data w ere generated from 20 semi-structured interviews with health promotion practitioners and managers, from community health and local government organizations. Template analysis based on properties of complex systems informed the inductive identifica...
Source: Health Promotion International - September 24, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Promoting mental health in out of home care in Australia
AbstractYoung people in out of home care (OoHC) typically have worse mental health outcomes than peers who grow up within a family of origin. Innovations to improve the mental health of this group have tended to focus on pathology rather than mental health promotion and prevention of mental illnesses, and are often costly and challenging to implement. This qualitative study explored perspectives from young people with experience of OoHC in Melbourne, Australia regarding the promotion of mental health in OoHC. The study informed the subsequent development of a system-level intervention to support workers and carers in OoHC ...
Source: Health Promotion International - September 24, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
‘We know what we should eat but we don’t …’: a qualitative study in Irish secondary schools
AbstractHealthy eating opportunities for young people need to be provided in the school setting. Links between formal education and local policies and practices, and active involvement of students are emphasized in whole school approaches to health promotion. In many jurisdictions, schools struggle to provide nutritious food that is acceptable to students. The aim of this study was to conduct an in-depth exploration of school food and students ’ food choice with students, teachers and principals in six Irish secondary schools. Students conducted their own focus groups with peers, and a researcher conducted focus groups w...
Source: Health Promotion International - September 20, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Professional football clubs ’ involvement in health promotion in Spain: an audit of current practices
AbstractThe implementation of effective community-based health interventions within Spanish football clubs has the potential to positively influence the public health agenda and enable the healthcare system in Spain to be more successful and sustainable. This paper aims to explore the involvement of Spanish football clubs in health promotion activities, their potential for future involvement and what that would require. A mixed methods explanatory sequential design, with a purposive sample of La Liga clubs. Data collection included online questionnaires and phone interviews. Quantitative methods enabled us to describe the ...
Source: Health Promotion International - September 20, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
School policies and smoking intention in a Swiss sample of adolescents
AbstractThe majority of today ’s adult smokers took up the habit during adolescence. The school community and the rules it imposes are important factors that can influence adolescents’ smoking intention and behaviour. Research on the effect of school tobacco policies on adolescents’ smoking concludes with mixed results. Ou r study aims to look at the influence of these policies on the intention to smoke and to know if this relation is mediated by individual and environmental factors. The study includes information on social norms, attitude towards smoking and smoking intention from 4515 students of 32 Ticino middle s...
Source: Health Promotion International - September 20, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
How can multiple frames enable action on social determinants? Lessons from Australia ’s paid parental leave
AbstractHow do public health advocates and practitioners encourage policy actors to address the social determinants of health? What strategies can be used to elevate healthy social policies onto government agendas? In this paper, we examine the case of Australia ’s first national paid parental leave scheme, announced in 2009 after decades of policy advocacy. This scheme provides job-protected leave and government-funded pay at the minimum wage for 18 weeks for eligible primary care givers on the birth of an infant, and has been shown to reduce health in equities. Drawing on documentary sources and interviews (n = 2...
Source: Health Promotion International - September 16, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Improving child literacy using South Australia ’s Health in All Policies approach
This article focuses on a case study of HiAP work, undertaken between health and education in South Australia to increase parental engagement in children ’s literacy among lower socio-economic families. It draws on a document analysis of 71 documents, seven in-depth interviews with senior policy actors and a programme logic model. The project began with the intention of using policy levers to improve long-term health outcomes through addressing chi ld literacy, a proven social determinant of health. Because of the context in which it was operating, the project extended from a focus on policy to working directly with four...
Source: Health Promotion International - September 16, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Strengthening prevention in communities through systems change: lessons from the evaluation of Healthy Families NZ
This article presents the findings from the first 3 years of the evaluation of Healthy Families NZ, a systems-change intervention to prevent chronic diseases in 10 communities. The initiative, which builds on existing prevention activities, aims to strengthen the health prevention system through evidence-driven action to enable people to make good food choices, be physically active, smoke-free and free from alcohol-related harm. Key investment areas are a dedicated systems thinking and acting health promotion workforce, and activating leaders who can influence transformational change. The evaluation to date has found the i...
Source: Health Promotion International - September 8, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The effectiveness of workplace health promotion in low- and middle-income countries
AbstractAlthough many literature reviews synthesize literature regarding workplace health promotion (WHP) interventions, systematic reviews on the effectiveness of and factors influencing the operation of WHP activities in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) are scarce. Therefore, we systematically reviewed evaluation studies to examine the effectiveness and factors related to the implementation of WHP programmes in LMIC. Twenty-six peer-reviewed and grey evaluation studies, published before November 2017, were included from electronic databases (PubMed, The Cochrane Library, PsycINFO, EMBASE and Web of Science) and ma...
Source: Health Promotion International - September 8, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
A multicountry European study on Succeed: a general quality improvement tool in HIV prevention
This study aims to describe challenges and supportive factors in its use, and answers the research question if Succeed can be applied as a general QI tool despite the high contextuality of the European HIV prevention field. Mixed method research was conducted: data from quantitative pre- and post-training and implementation surveys were triangulated with qualitative data from multipl e data sources analysed inductively. In a second analytical step, Chaudoir’s evidence-based framework on implementation of innovations (2013) guided the data analysis on five levels: policy, organization, functionality of the tool, results a...
Source: Health Promotion International - September 5, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Healthy urban planning: an institutional policy analysis of strategic planning in Sydney, Australia
Health Promotion International (2019) doi:10.1093/heapro/daz056, published on 23 June 2019. (Source: Health Promotion International)
Source: Health Promotion International - August 29, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Insights into local health and wellbeing policy process in Australia
AbstractTo investigate factors that enable or challenge the initiation and actioning of health and wellbeing policy in Australian local governments using political science frameworks. An online survey was distributed to staff and elected members of Australian local governments. The survey sought responses to a range of variables as informed by political science frameworks. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and results were compared between local governments of different geographical sizes and locations using Kruskal –Wallis non-parametric testing. There were 1825 survey responses, including 243 CEOs, repres...
Source: Health Promotion International - August 29, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
