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Unhealthy and health promoting sponsorship of male and female professional sporting teams in Australia
CONCLUSIONS: Professional sport provides an important opportunity to facilitate health-promoting rather than -harming sponsors. Health-promoting sponsors are more prominent in women's sport, but as women's professional sport continues to grow in popularity, there is a need for policy, funding, and support to prevent engagement with unhealthy industry sponsorship and create a level playing field with men's sport. SO WHAT?: Mechanisms should be developed to help sporting codes, particularly women's sport, to adopt business models that are not reliant on industries that cause harm. Establishing strong relationships with healt...
Source: Health Promotion Journal of Australia - November 23, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Hannah Pitt Simone McCarthy Melanie Randle Samantha Thomas Grace Arnot Mike Daube Source Type: research

Outback Quit Pack: Feasibility trial of outreach smoking cessation for people in rural, regional, and remote Australia
CONCLUSION: The Outback Quit Pack intervention was feasible and acceptable. Alternative methods for remote biochemical verification need further study. SO WHAT?: A powered RCT to test the effectiveness of the intervention to improve access to evidence-based smoking cessation support to people residing in RRR areas is warranted.PMID:37968784 | DOI:10.1002/hpja.827 (Source: Health Promotion Journal of Australia)
Source: Health Promotion Journal of Australia - November 16, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ashleigh Guillaumier Flora Tzelepis Christine Paul Megan Passey Christopher Oldmeadow Tonelle Handley Kristen McCarter Laura Twyman Amanda L Baker Kate Reakes Phillipa Hastings Billie Bonevski Source Type: research

Health behaviour profiles in young Australian adults in relation to physical and mental health: The Raine Study
CONCLUSIONS: The profiles identified among young adults are different to profiles with general adult populations. A novel finding was that 'physically active drinkers with unhealthy eating habits' had low insulin resistance. The findings also suggest that future interventions may need to be sex specific.SO WHAT: Our findings suggest that health behaviour interventions for young adults should be targeted to distinct profile characteristics.PMID:37968787 | DOI:10.1002/hpja.828 (Source: Health Promotion Journal of Australia)
Source: Health Promotion Journal of Australia - November 16, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Cecilie Th øgersen-Ntoumani Daniel F Gucciardi Joanne A McVeigh Therese A O'Sullivan Manon Dontje Emmanuel Stamatakis Peter R Eastwood Leon Straker Source Type: research