Women and Health: Goal Statement

1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Goal Statement ◽  
Health Goal

Health goals among American adults: Prevalence, characteristics, and barriers

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 1350-1355
Author(s):  
Marina Milyavskaya ◽  
Daniel Nadolny
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Goal Attainment ◽  
Implementation Intentions ◽  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Health Goals ◽  
Health Goal ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Reported Health

Although numerous factors have been demonstrated in laboratory settings to lead to more successful health goal attainment, their actual use in daily goal pursuit is unknown. This study examines spontaneously reported health goals and their characteristics in a sample of 557 American adults. Participants responded to questions about health and health goals, with items assessing motivation, social support, and implementation intentions. In all, 66 percent of respondents had a health goal, 26 percent of participants had implementation intentions, and 47 percent received support from close others. Results suggest that interventions should focus on encouraging goal setting, teaching implementation intentions, and educating close others in providing support.

scholarly journals RELATIONSHIP KNOWLEDGE, PERCEPTION, AND ATTITUDE WITH THE INTENSITY OF SMOKING BEHAVIOR IN PHARMACEUTICAL AND FOOD ACADEMIC STUDENTS (AKAFARMA) YAYASAN HARAPAN BANDA ACEH IN 2016

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Aris Winandar
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
P Value ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
Health Goal ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Banda Aceh

HUBUNGAN PENGETAHUAN, PERSEPSI, DAN SIKAP DENGAN INTENSITAS PERILAKU MEROKOK PADA MAHASISWA AKADEMI FARMASI DAN MAKANAN (AKAFARMA) YAYASAN HARAPAN BANGSA BANDA ACEH TAHUN 2016     Aris Winandar 1.Fakultas Kesehatan Masyarakat Universitas Serambi Mekkah Banda Aceh Email korespondensi : ( [email protected])   Abstrak   Latar Belakang : Intensitas perilaku merokok juga menimbulkan dampak negatif bagi perokok pasif. Berdasarkan studi pendahuluan yang penulis lakukan di Akademi Farmasi dan Makanan (Akafarma) Yayasan Harapan Bangsa Banda Aceh tahub 2016 jumlah mahasiswa sebanyak 150 orang, sebagian mahasiswa terutama laki-laki mengkonsumsi rokok dalam kesehariannya, penyebab mahasiswa mengkonsumsi rokok karena ingin tampil gaya, alasan mereka jika merokok membuat pikaran jadi lebih tenang, selain itu sikap mahasiswa yang tidak mengetahui bahwa jika merokok membuat mereka mudah terkena penyakit, selain itu kurangnya pengetahuan tentang rokok juga merupakan salah satu penyebab mahasiswa tidak memperdulikan keesehatannya..(Tujuan) untuk mengetahui hubungan pengetahuan, persepsi, dan sikap dengan intensitas perilaku merokokpada remaja putra di Akademi Farmasi dan Makanan (Akafarma) Yayasan Harapan Bangsa Banda Aceh Tahun 2016. Metode : bersifat deskriptif analitik dengan pendekatan crossectional study.Hasil : ada hubungan yang bermakna antara pengetahuan dengan intensitas perilaku merokokdengan p value=0,000 (p<0,05), persepsi p value=0,004 (p<0,05), dan sikap dengan p value=0,002 (p<0,05) dengan intensitas perilaku merokok pada mahasiswa di Akademi Farmasi dan Makanan (Akafarma) Yayasan Harapan Bangsa Banda Aceh.Kesimpulan : Pengetahuan, Persepsi, Dan Sikap ada hubungan yang sangat bermakna dengan intensitas perilaku merokok pada mahasiswa di Akademi Farmasi dan Makanan (Akafarma) Yayasan Harapan Bangsa Banda Aceh   Kata kunci: Perilaku Merokok, remaja   Abstract   Background: The intensity of smoking behavior also has a negative impact on passive smoking. Based on preliminary study which the author did at Academy of Food and Pharmacy (Akafarma) Harapan Bangsa Foundation Banda Aceh in 2016 the number of students as many as 150 people, some students, especially men consume cigarettes in their daily life, the cause of students consuming cigarettes because they want to look stylish, their reasons if smoking makes the plateau so calm, besides the attitude of students who do not know that if smoking makes them susceptible to disease, other than that the lack of knowledge about cigarettes is also one cause the students do not care about his health ..(Goal) to know the relationship of knowledge, and attitudes with the intensity of smoking behavior in young men at the Akademi Academy of Pharmacy and Food (Akafarma) Harapan Bangsa Foundation Banda Aceh Year 2016. Method: analytical descriptive with cross-sectional approach. Result: there is a significant correlation between knowledge and intensity of smoking behavior with p value = 0,000 (p <0,05), perception p value = 0,004 (p <0,05), and attitude p value = 0,002 (p <0,05) with intensity of smoking behavior among students at Akademi Academy of Pharmacy and Food (Akafarma) Harapan Bangsa Foundation Banda Aceh. Conclusion: Knowledge, Perception, And Attitude There is a very meaningful relation with intensity of smoking behavior in students at the Akpararma Akademarma dan Food (Akafarma) Foundation of Harapan Bangsa Banda Aceh   Keywords: Smoking Behavior, adolescents

scholarly journals Overview on Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act and its implementation: current update

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 463
Author(s):  
Dhwanit Thakore ◽  
Mahesh Chavda ◽  
Girish Parmar ◽  
Tejal Sheth
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Tobacco Use ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Tobacco Products ◽  
Health Goal ◽  
The Status ◽  
Public Health Goal ◽  
Almost All

Tobacco use- a major public health issue in India has an enormous effect on the lower SES population. . There is an evident link between tobacco use or consumption and poverty. The widespread use of almost all forms of tobacco among the Indian population can be attributed to the social and cultural acceptance in the country. Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products Act, 2003 (COTPA) is the legislation that regulates tobacco in India. The prime objective of this review is to compile the literature with information about the laws regulating tobacco use and the status of implementation of tobacco control provisions covered under COTPA. Since effective tobacco control measures involve multi-stakeholders i.e public health, law, trade and commerce, industry, consumer, human rights and child development, coordinated efforts are required to successful enforcement. The outcome of the current literature is bridging the gaps to make the tobacco control a very important public health goal and thereby protect the population from the consequent morbidity and mortality due to tobacco use.

Health Goal Cognition and Adjustment in Women with Fibromyalgia

2005 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 455-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy A. Hamilton ◽  
Paul Karoly ◽  
Alex J. Zautra
Keyword(s):  
Health Goal ◽  
Goal Cognition

scholarly journals Morning resolutions, evening disillusions: Theories of willpower affect how health behaviours change across the day

2020 ◽  
pp. 089020702096230
Author(s):  
Zoë Francis ◽  
Jutta Mata ◽  
Lavinia Flückiger ◽  
Veronika Job
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Health Behaviours ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Moderate Intensity ◽  
Moderate Intensity Physical Activity ◽  
Health Goals ◽  
Health Goal ◽  
Intensity Physical Activity ◽  
Health Intentions

People may be more or less vulnerable to changes in self-control across the day, depending on whether they believe willpower is more or less limited. Limited willpower beliefs might be associated with steeper decreases in self-control across the day, which may result in less goal-consistent behaviour by the evening. Community members with health goals (Sample 1; N = 160; 1814 observations) and students (Sample 2; N = 162; 10,581 observations) completed five surveys per day for one to three weeks, reporting on their recent physical activity, snacking, subjective state, and health intentions. In both samples, more limited willpower beliefs were associated with less low- and moderate-intensity physical activity, particularly later in the day. Limited willpower beliefs were also associated with more snacking in the evenings (Sample 1) or overall (Sample 2). These behavioural patterns were mediated by differential changes in self-efficacy and intentions across the course of the day (in Sample 1), and the above patterns of low- and moderate-physical intensity held after controlling for related individual differences, including trait self-control and chronotype (in Sample 2). Overall, more limited willpower theories were associated with decreasing goal-consistent behaviour as the day progressed, alongside decreasing self-efficacy and weakening health-goal intentions.

Sense of Power: Policy Insights for Encouraging Consumers’ Healthy Food Choice

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Xin Wang ◽  
Elizabeth A. Minton ◽  
Jiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Public Service Announcements ◽  
Purchase Decisions ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Obesity Epidemic ◽  
Corporate Advertising ◽  
Health Goal ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Sense Of Power ◽  
High Sense

Research has inadequately examined how increasing a consumer’s sense of power may positively influence healthy choices. With the global obesity epidemic worsening each year, now is an essential time for marketers and policy makers to identify ways to encourage healthy choices. Thus, the current research addresses this need and the accompanying gap in the literature. Through five studies (including a field study) involving both corporate advertising and public service announcements, results show that priming a high (vs. low) sense of power leads consumers to make healthier food purchase decisions and that this effect occurs because a higher sense of power results in a more salient health goal. Most relevant for policy makers, the findings show that priming a high sense of power through simple changes in marketing communications (e.g., using the headline “You are powerful”) is an effective way to increase healthy choice, particularly for lower-socioeconomic-status consumers.

scholarly journals Out of the silos: embedding injury prevention into the Sustainable Development Goals

2020 ◽  
pp. injuryprev-2020-043850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracey Ma ◽  
Amy E Peden ◽  
Margaret Peden ◽  
Adnan A Hyder ◽  
Jagnoor Jagnoor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Injury Prevention ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Unintentional Injury ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Health Goal ◽  
The Status ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Safety Considerations

Globally, unintentional injuries contribute significantly to disability and death. Prevention efforts have traditionally focused on individual injury mechanisms and their specific risk factors, which has resulted in slow progress in reducing the burden. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a global agenda for promoting human prosperity while respecting planetary boundaries. While injury prevention is currently only recognised in the SDG agenda via two road safety targets, the relevance of the SDGs for injury prevention is much broader. In this State of the Art Review, we illustrate how unintentional injury prevention efforts can be advanced substantially within a broad range of SDG goals and advocate for the integration of safety considerations across all sectors and stakeholders. This review uncovers injury prevention opportunities within broader global priorities such as urbanisation, population shifts, water safeguarding and corporate social responsibility. We demonstrate the relevance of injury prevention efforts to the SDG agenda beyond the health goal (SDG 3) and the two specific road safety targets (SDG 3.6 and SDG 11.2), highlighting 13 additional SDGs of relevance. We argue that all involved in injury prevention are at a critical juncture where we can continue with the status quo and expect to see more of the same, or mobilise the global community in an ‘Injury Prevention in All Policies’ approach.

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