Implementing empowerment-based Lay Health Worker programs: a preliminary study
AbstractLay Health Worker (LHW) programs have been shown to be effective in engaging community members in health promotion. While successful LHW program implementation requires an understanding of factors influencing program effectiveness, evidence informing such understanding is lacking for empowerment and ecological theory-based LHW programs. This descriptive study explores how enablers and barriers, identified from LHW literature apply (from the LHWs ’ perspective) in the context of implementing an empowerment and ecological theory-based LHW model in Melbourne, Victoria. A qualitative case study was carried out. Data ...
Source: Health Promotion International - April 24, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Understanding Australian policies on public health using social and political science theories: reflections from an Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Workshop
Discussions during the Workshop highlighted that applying multiple theories is particularly helpful in directing attention to, and understanding, the influence of all stages of the policy process; from the construction and framing of policy problems, to the implementation of policy and evaluation of outcomes, including those outcomes that may be unintended. In addition, the Workshop emphasized the value of collaborations among public health researchers, political and social scientists and public servants to open up critical discussion about the intersections between theory, research evidence and practice. Such critique is ...
Source: Health Promotion International - April 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
HEIA tools: inclusion of migrants in health policy in Canada
AbstractThis paper introduces the Migrant Populations Equity Extension for Ontario ’s Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA) initiatives. It provides a mechanism to address the needs of migrant populations, within a program and policy framework. Validation of an equity extension framework using community leaders and health practitioners engaged in HEIA workshops across Ontario. Participants assessed migrants’ health needs and discussed how to integrate these needs into health policy. The Migrant Populations Equity Extension’s framework assists decision makers assess relevant populations, collaborate with immigrant co...
Source: Health Promotion International - April 17, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Social media and health information sharing among Australian Indigenous people
We present six social media user typologies together with an overview of health content that generated significant interaction. Content ranged from typical health-related issues such as mental health, diet, alcohol, smoking and exercise, through to a range of broader social determinants of health. Social media-based health promotion approaches that build on the social capital generated by supportive online environments may be more likely to generate greater traction than confronting and emotion-inducing approaches used in mass media campaigns for some health topics. (Source: Health Promotion International)
Source: Health Promotion International - April 17, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Smoking portrayal in Ethiopian movies: a theory-based content analysis
This study examined the extent and nature of smoking portrayal in locally produced Ethiopian movies, and estimated the number of tobacco impressions movies delivered. Sample movies were taken from YouTube. Keyword searches were conducted using ‘Ethiopian movies’ and ‘Ethiopian drama’ on 18 September 2016. In each search, the first 100 most viewed movies were examined. Excluding repeated results, a total of 123 movies were selected for content analysis. Three coders participated. Results indicated that 86 (69.9%, 95% CI 63–78%) o f the 123 most viewed movies contain at least one tobacco incident (TI). The movies d...
Source: Health Promotion International - April 17, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
