Health Promotion and Education for the Elderly: Experience in an Academic Department of Geriatric Medicine

1996 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Richmond ◽  
H. McCracken
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Geriatric Medicine ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Academic Department ◽  
Health Promotion And Education

scholarly journals Promoção e educação em saúde de idosos / Health promotion and education for the elderly

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 41438-41446
Author(s):  
Lidiane Bernardes Faria Vilela ◽  
Deusmaura Vieira Leão ◽  
Rodrigo Francisco Borges Lourenço ◽  
Carolina Merida ◽  
Vanessa Renata Molinero De Paula ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Health Promotion And Education

The Development of Community Networks Affecting Health Promotion of the Elderly and Incorporating Local Wisdom at Ban Ton Tan Community, Saraburi, Thailand

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Payao Phongsakchat ◽  
Pudsadee Korjedee ◽  
Jiraporn Cheanchum ◽  
Prapas Tana ◽  
Siritorn Yingrengreung
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Community Networks

Family Practice Physicians’ Perceptions and Practices Regarding Health Promotion for the Elderly

1988 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 274-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Price ◽  
Sharon M. Desmond ◽  
David P. Losh ◽  
Ronald A. Krol
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Family Practice ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Family Practice Physicians

Health Promotion for the Elderly Persons in Hong Kong

1999 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Chi ◽  
Edward M. F. Leung
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Elderly Persons

scholarly journals Waiora: the importance of Indigenous worldviews and spirituality to inspire and inform Planetary Health Promotion in the Anthropocene

2021 ◽  
pp. 175797592110622
Author(s):  
Sione Tu’itahi ◽  
Huti Watson ◽  
Richard Egan ◽  
Margot W. Parkes ◽  
Trevor Hancock
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
International Union ◽  
Planetary Health ◽  
Indigenous Worldviews ◽  
Health Promotion And Education ◽  
Ecological Changes ◽  
Geological Age ◽  
The Social

We now live in a new geological age, the Anthropocene – the age of humans – the start of which coincides with the founding of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) 70 years ago. In this article, we address the fundamental challenge facing health promotion in its next 70 years, which takes us almost to 2100: how do we achieve planetary health? We begin with a brief overview of the massive and rapid global ecological changes we face, the social, economic and technological driving forces behind those changes, and their health implications. At the heart of these driving forces lie a set of core values that are incompatible with planetary health. Central to our argument is the need for a new set of values, which heed and privilege the wisdom of Indigenous worldviews, as well as a renewed sense of spirituality that can re-establish a reverence for nature. We propose an Indigenous-informed framing to inspire and inform what we call planetary health promotion so that, as the United Nations Secretary General wrote recently, we can make peace with nature.

scholarly journals Efektivitas Promosi Kesehatan Menggunakan Media Audiovisual Terhadap Keaktifan Lansia ke Posyandu Lansia

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-95
Author(s):  
Sri Astutik Andayani ◽  
Husnul Khotimah ◽  
Sry Desy ◽  
Arif Eko Trilianto ◽  
Hefniy Razaq
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Center ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Control Design ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
P Value ◽  
Whitney Test ◽  
Elderly Health

Implemented posyandu elderly there are obstacles that often faced is low visit, one of cause factor is low of knowledge of elderly so that beneficiary of posyandu elderly still not maximal. The purpose of this research is to know the influence of health promotion about elderly posyandu by use audio visual media toward liveliness of elderly in following elderly posyandu. The design use in this research is Quasy Experimental with pretest-posttest with control design. This research was conducted at Maesan Bondowoso health center with 55 respondents with total sampling technique. This analysis used Wilcoxon and Mann-Whitney test. The results showed that health promotion was effective to increase the member of ekderly visit to the elderly health center with p value 0,000. Keywords  : Health Promotion, Elderly Health Centre, elderly active

scholarly journals Through the Lens of Networks: Health Promotion Policy Implementation for the Elderly at the Local Level in Thailand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Wimonmat Srichamroen
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Network Governance ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Administrative Authority ◽  
Promotion Policy

<p>The Thai government has included health promotion in its national policies and strategies to directly address the health of the elderly. Multiple government organisations at various levels are involved in this health promotion policy and its related efforts. With an emphasis on ensuring that the elderly in the community benefit from national health promotion policies, and have access to health promotion services, the policies directed government organisations to work together as a network to implement the health promotion policy for the elderly at the local level. The Local Administrative Organisations (LAOs), decentralised government organisations, acted as the centre of the networks in each sub-district across the country. Networks play a role as an essential mechanism in the health promotion policy implementation for the elderly and in reaching out to the smallest unit of the community: individual older people. However, there are known gaps in the functioning of the decentralised governance arrangements and in coordination between organisations to implement the health promotion policy. Policy implementation can be improved to ensure that key goals and objectives are met.   The objective of this research was to analyse the ways in which the LAOs and other government organisations together implement the health promotion policy for the elderly at the local level in Thailand. Using a network perspective, the governance structure and governance characteristics, including relationships and the functioning of the policy implementation network, are identified and analysed. How the observed network characteristics affect network collaboration, policy outcomes, and actors’ capacity in policy implementation are then explored.   Within an interpretivist perspective, the research employed multiple network analysis approaches and mixed methods data collection such as network mapping, non-participant observation, interviews, and questionnaire surveys, across two case study sites. A combination of thematic analysis and constant comparative methods were employed to analyse the data.  The networks in this study were found to have a hybrid governance form, being a combination of lead organisation-governed and shared governance. However, it is not possible to predict the likelihood of achieving good policy outcomes based on the form of network governance alone; other networks characteristics must also be studied. At the network level, influential factors indicative of policy outcomes were found to be the exchanges of political and cultural capitals between network actors, with the latter differentiating the policy outcomes across the two cases. To improve the network actors’ capacity in policy implementation, learning and resource exchanges between actors were found to be important. Based on the study findings, an intervention to improve policy outcomes should be encouraged through financial capital exchanges between network actors as this is when administrative authority is most dominant.   The research provides an empirical review to inform policymakers and practitioners that the most influential factors should be embedded during the funding process so that the policy implementation can better support health for the elderly and the aged society that Thailand is entering.</p>

scholarly journals Stamping out disease: health education and promotion by miniature messengers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Postage Stamp ◽  
Media Advocacy ◽  
Health Promotion And Education ◽  
Growth And Nutrition ◽  
Postage Stamps

<p><b>Abstract </b></p><p>This study explores the role of the ubiquitous postage stamp as a messenger of health promotion and education. It examines the way that postal material has been modified to act as a medium for health education, with images and texts appropriate to the specific health problems. The methodology used included a search for all postage stamps listed in established catalogues that fitted the described criterion. Selection for further study was drawn from those stamps that covered the topics of infection, immunisation, tobacco cessation, growth and nutrition. </p><p>It was clearly recognised that by simply presenting information on a stamp, would not necessarily bring about the desired behavioural change. Thus, the currently accepted health promotion models were examined to find an appropriate explanation for/ and a rationale to explain the use of postage stamp in health promotion and education. The strategy called “media advocacy” was the nearest best fit for the bulk of postage stamps carrying health information. This finding could explain why stamps have been perceived, over many years, as being a useful and successful element in health promotion and education by their frequent and continued use over a period of some fifty years. </p><p>Postage stamps are frequently used worldwide and have a clear role in carrying health information and thus play a small, but important and unique, role in the field of health promotion. </p>

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