Pub Date : 2022-08-17DOI: 10.1080/14635240.2022.2107556
A. Schou, H. Hofstad, L. Monkerud
ABSTRACT Making sure that health surveillance data are integrated into public health planning and decision-making is demanding. Politicians and their administration may lack knowledge, interest, or will to take it into account. Politics is at its core solution-driven, and this need for imminent action may outweigh the importance of solid knowledge. This paper focuses on Norwegian municipalities and fleshes out two factors that may provide an enabling environment for educating relevant personnel in health surveillance data; i) the existence of a public health coordinator and ii) the set-up of inter-sectoral working groups. We have anticipated that those organisational resources play an important role in linking the bodies of information provided in the municipalities’ health surveillance document ; the municipal health profile ; and the health promotion priorities. The findings confirm the anticipated centrality of organisational resources. Having dedicated and inter-sectoral organizational resources working as boundary spanners – such as public health coordinators – is decisive to meeting the demands of current public health challenges. Moreover, dedication is useless unless there is a critical volume of the coordinator’s work. It is only when she/he is in a full position that the profile is fully integrated. The study further identifies other conducive conditions for integration. For example, does knowledge on health determinants resides not only in statistical data, but also in qualitative experiences of people and professional practitioners. Of interest for further research is to explore how to educate such organisations to integrate such experiences into health promotion action.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-09DOI: 10.1080/14635240.2022.2104742
G. Kagaruki, M. Mahande, G. Kimaro, E. Ngadaya, Mary T Mayige, J. Msovela, K. Kreppel, S. Mfinanga, B. Bonfoh
{"title":"Knowledge and attitudes towards type 2 diabetes and prevention strategies among regular street food consumers: A cross sectional study in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania","authors":"G. Kagaruki, M. Mahande, G. Kimaro, E. Ngadaya, Mary T Mayige, J. Msovela, K. Kreppel, S. Mfinanga, B. Bonfoh","doi":"10.1080/14635240.2022.2104742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2022.2104742","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Promotion and Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47673235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-08DOI: 10.1080/14635240.2022.2106288
F. Mehravar, Abbas Rahimiforoushani, M. Vakili, S. Nedjat
{"title":"The role of social activity in the association between socioeconomic status and physical health in Tehran University of Medical Sciences employees` cohort study: a structural equation modeling","authors":"F. Mehravar, Abbas Rahimiforoushani, M. Vakili, S. Nedjat","doi":"10.1080/14635240.2022.2106288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2022.2106288","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Promotion and Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48136904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-27DOI: 10.1080/14635240.2022.2105248
M. Hult, Hanna Kallio, O. Halminen, M. Linna, S. Suominen, M. Kangasniemi
{"title":"Cost-effectiveness calculators on health and social services planning and evaluation: an explorative interview study of key informants","authors":"M. Hult, Hanna Kallio, O. Halminen, M. Linna, S. Suominen, M. Kangasniemi","doi":"10.1080/14635240.2022.2105248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2022.2105248","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Promotion and Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42501946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-26DOI: 10.1080/14635240.2022.2105247
Hoài Nguyễn Trọng, T. Lam, T. Dang
{"title":"Determinants of maternal health care choice for children with pneumonia: evidence from Vietnam","authors":"Hoài Nguyễn Trọng, T. Lam, T. Dang","doi":"10.1080/14635240.2022.2105247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2022.2105247","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Promotion and Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43777486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-18DOI: 10.1080/14635240.2022.2098160
K. Bould, Mark J. Forshaw
ABSTRACT Readability is a systematic measure of ease, with which written information can be read and understood. It can affect the reader’s ability to access, comprehend, and utilize health information. This study assessed the readability of online COVID-19 information readily available to the public to engage with. At a time when organisations and institutions were rapidly providing advice and reacting to a developing pandemic, it was hypothesised that some of that haste would be associated with a lack of clarity, as measured by readability indices. N = 65 website sources containing information relating to COVID-19 were accessed and assessed for inclusion in the study. Eight readability indices, including Flesch Reading Ease and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, were calculated to determine readability scores for each source of information. Readability scores varied greatly between individual sources of COVID-19 information. Despite the recommendation that information be presented to the general public at a sixth-grade reading level, most websites we assessed addressing COVID-19 information and advice presented content at greater than the recommended reading level. Based on these results, a significant amount of information available on the Internet about COVID-19 will not be easily readable for many individuals attempting to use the Internet to help inform their decisions about their health and behavior.
{"title":"Readability of online COVID-19 health information and advice","authors":"K. Bould, Mark J. Forshaw","doi":"10.1080/14635240.2022.2098160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2022.2098160","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Readability is a systematic measure of ease, with which written information can be read and understood. It can affect the reader’s ability to access, comprehend, and utilize health information. This study assessed the readability of online COVID-19 information readily available to the public to engage with. At a time when organisations and institutions were rapidly providing advice and reacting to a developing pandemic, it was hypothesised that some of that haste would be associated with a lack of clarity, as measured by readability indices. N = 65 website sources containing information relating to COVID-19 were accessed and assessed for inclusion in the study. Eight readability indices, including Flesch Reading Ease and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, were calculated to determine readability scores for each source of information. Readability scores varied greatly between individual sources of COVID-19 information. Despite the recommendation that information be presented to the general public at a sixth-grade reading level, most websites we assessed addressing COVID-19 information and advice presented content at greater than the recommended reading level. Based on these results, a significant amount of information available on the Internet about COVID-19 will not be easily readable for many individuals attempting to use the Internet to help inform their decisions about their health and behavior.","PeriodicalId":45149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Promotion and Education","volume":"61 1","pages":"189 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41318250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-08DOI: 10.1080/14635240.2022.2098161
Ritika Tiwari, H. Negandhi, Shanti Dahal, S. Zodpey
The COVID-19 pandemic has served as a wake-up call for India’s public health system. Public health if aided by strong political will, academic reforms, and awareness among youth (as a career choice)–will get a boost. Skilled public health professionals would be expected to play a key role in strengthening public health systems. Thus, to bring deep structural health reforms, it is imperative to analyse the perceptions of key public health stakeholders. In this study, we explored stakeholders’ perspectives about public health, and their views regarding the current state of public health education. Thirty-nine semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted during 2017–2018 across India among stakeholders that included students of public health programs, public health professionals (PHPs), faculty of public health institutions, employers of public health graduates, and policymakers. Thematic analysis of the data was undertaken focusing on 10 themes emanating around the focus areas of the study. Public health stakeholders suggested that for building a competent public health workforce there is a need to match supply and demand of PHPs, create job opportunities, institutionalising a large body of guidance such as a separate Ministry or Council of public health (for educational institutions, quality assurance of curriculum etc.). Within India, the public health profession & education remains under-researched. This study is the first from a lower middle income country (LMIC) & from Asia to offer insight about public health programs–from policy, education, and professional perspective.
{"title":"Perceptions, experiences, expectations, and challenges of Indian public health programs","authors":"Ritika Tiwari, H. Negandhi, Shanti Dahal, S. Zodpey","doi":"10.1080/14635240.2022.2098161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2022.2098161","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has served as a wake-up call for India’s public health system. Public health if aided by strong political will, academic reforms, and awareness among youth (as a career choice)–will get a boost. Skilled public health professionals would be expected to play a key role in strengthening public health systems. Thus, to bring deep structural health reforms, it is imperative to analyse the perceptions of key public health stakeholders. In this study, we explored stakeholders’ perspectives about public health, and their views regarding the current state of public health education. Thirty-nine semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted during 2017–2018 across India among stakeholders that included students of public health programs, public health professionals (PHPs), faculty of public health institutions, employers of public health graduates, and policymakers. Thematic analysis of the data was undertaken focusing on 10 themes emanating around the focus areas of the study. Public health stakeholders suggested that for building a competent public health workforce there is a need to match supply and demand of PHPs, create job opportunities, institutionalising a large body of guidance such as a separate Ministry or Council of public health (for educational institutions, quality assurance of curriculum etc.). Within India, the public health profession & education remains under-researched. This study is the first from a lower middle income country (LMIC) & from Asia to offer insight about public health programs–from policy, education, and professional perspective.","PeriodicalId":45149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Promotion and Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42980799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-08DOI: 10.1080/14635240.2022.2098162
J. Jackson, R. Safari, J. Hallam
{"title":"A narrative synthesis using the ecological systems theory for understanding a woman’s ability to continue breastfeeding","authors":"J. Jackson, R. Safari, J. Hallam","doi":"10.1080/14635240.2022.2098162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2022.2098162","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Promotion and Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41693250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-04DOI: 10.1080/14635240.2022.2088943
P. Owen
{"title":"How do we talk about health? Communicating health and creating supportive environments","authors":"P. Owen","doi":"10.1080/14635240.2022.2088943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2022.2088943","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Promotion and Education","volume":"60 1","pages":"243 - 246"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41416644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-04DOI: 10.1080/14635240.2022.2086898
Zahra Chegini, S. S. Shariful Islam, I. Kolawole, M. Lotfi, Afsaneh Nobakht, Hanieh Aziz Karkan, Ali Behforoz
ABSTRACT Falling is one of the most common adverse events leading to patient injury. The purpose of this study (as part of a Ph.D. paper) was to investigate the effects of educational interventions on patients’ self-efficacy and falls prevention knowledge. A sample of 176 participants were recruited at a university hospital in Iran. Each patient received an educational pamphlet on falls prevention. The questionnaire measured patient knowledge (scores ranged from 0 to 20) and falls prevention self-efficacy (scores ranged from 20 to 60) before and after the third day of the intervention. Overall, the mean knowledge score improved from 47.8% (9.57 ± 2.51) to 68.3 (13.68 ± 1.85), which was statistically significant (p < 0.001). For falls prevention self-efficacy, the pre-test mean was 41.0 ± 7.42 (range: 20–56; total: 60), but the post-test mean improved to 47.26 ± 9.12. 0.05. Our study suggests that the hospitalized patients have little knowledge of falls prevention and that educational interventions have improved their knowledge of falls prevention. Study participants were confident in implementing useful falls prophylaxis during hospitalization.
{"title":"An educational intervention to improve self-efficacy and knowledge of falls prevention among hospitalized patients","authors":"Zahra Chegini, S. S. Shariful Islam, I. Kolawole, M. Lotfi, Afsaneh Nobakht, Hanieh Aziz Karkan, Ali Behforoz","doi":"10.1080/14635240.2022.2086898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2022.2086898","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Falling is one of the most common adverse events leading to patient injury. The purpose of this study (as part of a Ph.D. paper) was to investigate the effects of educational interventions on patients’ self-efficacy and falls prevention knowledge. A sample of 176 participants were recruited at a university hospital in Iran. Each patient received an educational pamphlet on falls prevention. The questionnaire measured patient knowledge (scores ranged from 0 to 20) and falls prevention self-efficacy (scores ranged from 20 to 60) before and after the third day of the intervention. Overall, the mean knowledge score improved from 47.8% (9.57 ± 2.51) to 68.3 (13.68 ± 1.85), which was statistically significant (p < 0.001). For falls prevention self-efficacy, the pre-test mean was 41.0 ± 7.42 (range: 20–56; total: 60), but the post-test mean improved to 47.26 ± 9.12. 0.05. Our study suggests that the hospitalized patients have little knowledge of falls prevention and that educational interventions have improved their knowledge of falls prevention. Study participants were confident in implementing useful falls prophylaxis during hospitalization.","PeriodicalId":45149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Promotion and Education","volume":"60 1","pages":"217 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48460058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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