Disease relevance of Health Promotion

• MEASURES: Counseling on diet and nutrition, exercise, and tobacco during an outpatient visit indicate the availability of health promotion services, and screening for high blood pressure and cholesterol represent preventive services [1].
• Results of the study led to the development of health policy standards for the Austin (Tex) Police Department. Wellness programs that involve registered dietitians can result in weight loss and lower cholesterol levels for employees in high-stress occupations as well as changes in departmental policy [2].
• OBJECTIVE: To explore the health promotion behaviors of women with multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic, disabling disease affecting the central nervous system [3].
• BACKGROUND: Large trials of primary care-based health promotion to modify coronary heart disease risks have shown only modest benefits [4].
• BACKGROUND: This article describes the design and baseline findings of The Next Step Trial, a health promotion intervention targeting automobile industry employees at increased colorectal cancer risk [5].

Psychiatry related information on Health Promotion

• The courses are developed with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity [6].
• Specifically, the application of the Health Belief Model, Health Promotion Model, Theory of Reasoned Action, Theory of Planned Behavior and Self-efficacy Theory to the initiation and maintenance of cardiovascular health behavior is addressed [7].
• Early in this decade the U.S. Centers for Disease Control gave a mandate to states receiving Health Education/Risk Reduction Funds (HERR) to inventory health promotion and risk reduction services [8].
• Smoking cessation needs to become a priority of health promotion for all patients with COPD [9].

High impact information on Health Promotion

• The cholesterol saga: whither health promotion [10]?
• Two-year results of a randomized controlled trial of a health promotion program in a retiree population: the Bank of America Study [11].
• Health promotion by flavonoids, tocopherols, tocotrienols, and other phenols: direct or indirect effects? Antioxidant or not [12]?
• A major goal set by the Public Health Service in its National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for the year 2000 is "to reduce stroke deaths to no more than 20 per 100,000." Part of this can be achieved if the risk of stroke recurrence is reduced [13].
• There is considerable clinical interest in the utility of probiotic therapy--the feeding of (live) non-pathogenic bacteria, originally derived from the alimentary tract, for disease treatment or health promotion [14].

Chemical compound and disease context of Health Promotion

• METHODS: We gathered data from the U.S. Army Safety Center, the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. This paper describes ten representative cases of laser eye injury that occurred in the U.S. military between 1984 and 2000 [15].
• CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: The sustained fall in neural tube defects is thought to be due to increased periconceptional folate intake in response to health promotion campaigns and fortification of selected foods [16].
• Licensees of all licensed premises in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, were offered free services to encourage adoption of health promotion initiatives relating to responsible service of alcohol, environmental tobacco smoke, healthy food choices, breast and cervical cancer prevention, and the prevention of HIV/AIDS [17].
• It aimed to increase the physical activity levels of women aged 20-50 years living in the Concord Local Government Area (LGA), an inner-western region of Sydney, Australia. A key feature of this intervention was a partnership between Concord Council (the local government) and the Central Sydney Health Promotion Unit (CSHPU) [18].
• DESIGN: The association between birth length, birth weight, Ponderal Index and total serum cholesterol was examined in 545 Danish men and women aged 31 to 51 years who participated in the Ebeltoft Health Promotion Project in Denmark [19].

Biological context of Health Promotion

• Preventive medicine practitioners and others involved in health promotion may build upon the 5 a Day Campaign experience in developing and implementing efforts to reach the nation's dietary goals [20].
• As part of comprehensive joint medical surveillance measures outlined by the Department of Defense, the US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (USACHPPM) is beginning to assess environmental health threats to continental US military installations [21].
• Specific pediatric concerns about health promotion and disease prevention in ophthalmology include amblyopia and strabismus, ophthalmia neonatorum, ocular trauma, radiation injury, xerophthalmia, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, infections and metabolic and genetic disorders [22].

Anatomical context of Health Promotion

• Insurers, employers, and individuals create demands for laboratory testing in "wellness programs." Tests chosen to identify cases deserving intervention included routine automated chemical tests plus high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, ferritin, and thyroid tests [23].
• DCT advocates addressing masturbation and other semen loss concerns in all sexual health campaigns in South Asia, based on the magnitude of these concerns, their potential to confound syndromic management of STIs and their significance as an idiom of psychosocial distress [24].

Associations of Health Promotion with chemical compounds

• CONCLUSIONS: Measurement of waist circumference 'Action Level 1' at 94 cm (37 inches) in men and 80 cm (32 inches) in women could be adopted as a simpler valid alternative to BMI for health promotion, to alert those at risk of cardiovascular disease, and as a guide to risk avoidance by self-weight management [25].
• The authors used prospective data from two supplemental studies of the National Health Interview Survey, the 1988 Alcohol Supplement and the 1990 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Supplement, to examine the relation between alcohol intake and mortality [26].
• BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Estimates of dietary folate intake are currently of considerable interest, but no rapid tools are available to assess dietary intake of folate that are well suited to everyday health promotion activities [27].
• The results obtained in the present work suggest that folic acid may be useful in the prevention of damage and promotion of health of the progeny of ethanol-treated rats [28].
• Specifically, 17% require physicians to provide interventions, 15% evaluate interventions, 39% of physician organizations offer smoking health promotion programs, 25% provide nicotine replacement therapy starter kits, and materials are provided on pharmacotherapy (39%), counseling (37%), and self-help (58%) [29].

Gene context of Health Promotion

• Ten classes were then randomly selected to receive health promotion lessons (intervention group, high-risk; IGHR), while the other 10 classes served as controls (control group, high-risk; CGHR) [30].
• A joint effort to affect lives. The COPD Wellness Program [31].
• Randomized controlled study of a retiree health promotion program. The Bank of American Study [32].
• Results from the Next Step Trial will provide additional data on whether and how health promotion interventions influence these factors, and whether such changes are associated with dietary change [33].
• CONCLUSIONS: The government favours the development of health promotion programmes as stated in its document "Health at work in the NHS". The response in this study, showed methods to increase compliance must be developed if such programmes are to be successful [34].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Health Promotion

• On the basis of poor diet, nutrition-related factors (high body mass index), our estimates of the preventable fraction of cancer, and the high provincial cancer rates, we recommend health promotion strategies aimed at improving diet quality in Nova Scotia [35].
• This study examined the relationship between variables from the Health Promotion Model (HPM) and OPBs of calcium intake, exercise participation, and taking of estrogen/hormone replacement therapy (ERT/HRT) [36].
• Unit costs of OPD and dental care were lower than the proposed budget while the unit cost of health promotion and prevention was higher [37].
• Disease detection behaviors were defined as behaviors designed to detect physical pathology (e.g., cholesterol check) and health promotion behaviors were defined as behaviors that may directly improve health (e.g., eating a low-fat diet) [38].
• There is a need for health promotion and education on the adverse effects of methamphetamine use, and the development of improved treatment protocols for methamphetamine abuse and dependence [39].

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