Cycling and Walking: Why Don't Hospitals Provide Facilities for Healthy Transport?

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Owen ◽  
Rosalie H. Day ◽  
Paul Scullion
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Everyday Activity ◽  
Car Use ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Health Promoting

Physical activity is essential for health but modern lifestyles have become increasingly sedentary. Walking and cycling for transport is exercise that can readily become an habitual everyday activity. Health policy recognises the value of walking and cycling but government policy generally promotes personal car use and transport planning encourages this mode. Hospitals should be at the forefront of promoting healthy transport policy and this study was undertaken to assess the attitudes in hospitals to health-promoting transport and the facilities provided to support it. A questionnaire about attitudes to physical activity, health promotion and walking and cycling was sent to 15 hospitals in metropolitan Adelaide. This was followed up with site visits. Although respondents were aware of the beneficial effects of physical activity only a third translated this into any action. No hospital encouraged walking or cycling for transport. All hospitals had car parking but few had bicycle parking and fewer had facilities that met Australian Standards. In many hospitals overseas, walking and cycling are actively encouraged through improved access, appropriate facilities and even incentives. Hospitals in Adelaide could have a positive health impact by moving beyond 'treatment' and promoting walking and cycling for transport and health.

scholarly journals A Review of Health Promotion Practices Among Physiotherapists In Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Nepha Musonda ◽  
◽  
Micah Mutuna Simpamba ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Physical Activity Promotion ◽  
Perceived Barriers ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Activity Promotion ◽  
Health Promoting

Background:Physiotherapists are better placed to spearhead health promoting activities by encouraging health enhancing lifestyles as part of their practice. This study reviews health promotion practices of Physiotherapists in African countries in order to identify gaps and make recommendations to improve the health promotion practices. Methods:This narrative review was developed from a literature review of previous studies on health promotion practices among physiotherapists in Africa, which were published in English from the years 2010-2020, retrieved from Google Scholar and PubMed. Only articles that focused on health promotion, physical activity, practices, Physiotherapy and Africa were included.Results:Nine (9) studies met the inclusion criteria for this review. Five (5) studies were from Nigeria while one study each from Rwanda, South Africa, Ghana and Ethiopia. Most studies reviewed used quantitative cross-sectional surveys. The focus of these studies were mainly exploring Physiotherapists’ knowledge, attitude and practices towards health promotion and physical activity promotion. Others looked at Physiotherapy practices with regards to counseling, risk factor assessment and interventions as well as perceived barriers and educational needs. Conclusion: It is evident that there is little research done on health promotion practices among Physiotherapists in African countries. There is need to conduct more studies in this area in order to identify the challenges and improve the health promotion practices among Physiotherapy practitioners in the region.

Physical Health Promotion through Modern Technologies

2016 ◽  
pp. 889-907
Author(s):  
Sandul Yasobant
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Interactive Video ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Physical Activity Interventions ◽  
Future Research Directions

Health promotion and the maintenance of the quality of life are realized recently. Advancement in technologies offer new possibilities for both the promotion of positive health behaviors that were unimaginable even a decade ago. Though promoting physical activity has been proven an important component of health promotion by many researchers, still a lot of efforts on how to improve physical activity being provided by group of researchers. Technology such as pedometers, accelerometers, and heart rate monitors have been used to promote physical activity for years. Newer technologies such as global positioning system (GPS), geographic information systems (GIS), interactive video games, and persuasive technology, Internet-based physical activity interventions have been used recently to promote and change exercise behavior. This chapter seeks to provide a complete insight of technologies used to changing health behaviors especially physical health promotion and will take a forward to analyses all the issues while using these technologies and future research directions.

scholarly journals Measuring health promotion: translating science into policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (S2) ◽  
pp. 11-23
Author(s):  
James C. Griffiths ◽  
Jan De Vries ◽  
Michael I. McBurney ◽  
Suzan Wopereis ◽  
Samet Serttas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Human Microbiome ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Lifestyle Changes ◽  
Phenotypic Flexibility ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Health Promoting Behaviors ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Nutritional Studies

Abstract Commonly, it is the end of life when our health is deteriorating, that many will make drastic lifestyle changes to improve their quality of life. However, it is increasingly recognized that bringing good health-promoting behaviors into practice as early in life as possible has the most significant impact across the maximal healthspan. The WHO has brought clarity to health promotion over the last fifteen years, always centering on language relating to a process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their physical, mental and social health. A good healthspan is not just freedom from morbidity and mortality, it is that joie de vivre (“joy of living”) that should accompany every day of our lifespan. Therefore, health promotion includes not only the health sector, but also needs individual commitment to achieve that target of a healthspan aligned with the lifespan. This paper explores health promotion and health literacy, and how to design appropriate nutritional studies to characterize contributors to a positive health outcome, the role the human microbiome plays in promoting health and addressing and alleviating morbidity and diseases, and finally how to characterize phenotypic flexibility and a physiologic resilience that we must maintain as our structural and functional systems are bombarded with the insults and perturbations of life.

scholarly journals Factors Influencing Health Promoting Behaviours in Women of Reproductive Age in Iran: Based on Pender’s Health Promotion Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (14) ◽  
pp. 2360-2364
Author(s):  
Faramarz Shaahmadi ◽  
Davoud Shojaeizadeh ◽  
Roya Sadeghi ◽  
Zohreh Arefi
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Women Of Reproductive Age ◽  
Health Promotion Model ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Pender's Health Promotion Model ◽  
Health Related Behaviour

INTRODUCTION: Health promotion behaviours are considered as preventives of non-communicable diseases and key determinants of maintaining and improving the health status. AIM: This study aimed to investigate and identify effective factors on health-promoting behaviours based on Pender model in women of reproductive age from February to April 2017, in Savojbolagh, Iran. METHODS: This cross-sectional study is conducted on 240 women aged between 15 to 49 years in Savojbolagh, Iran, in 2017. The questionnaire consisted of several items, including socio-demographic characteristics, health-promoting lifestyle profile-II (HPLP-II), self-efficacy, social support and constructs of Pender’s health promotion model. SPSS-18 software has been applied for statistical analysis. RESULTS: The mean age of the women was 31.10 ± 7.29 years. Total HPLP-II score was 106.64 ± 11.93. The highest and the lowest mean in the subscales were belonged to nutrition and physical activity, respectively. According to the bivariate analysis, the total HPLP-II score is significantly related to prior health-related behaviour (p = 0.000). There was a statistically significant relationship between stress management and the variables including perceived benefits, perceived barriers, prior health-related behaviour, situational influences, commitment to a plan of action (p < 0.05). Also, health responsibility had a statistically significant relationship with self-efficacy (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: According to our results, it can be inferred that there is a problem with the HPBs of women. Considering that health-promoting behaviours like physical activity had a low score, it is a necessity to plan and perform interventions for improving health promotion behaviours.

scholarly journals Health-Promoting Properties of Lactobacilli in Fermented Dairy Products

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yantyati Widyastuti ◽  
Andi Febrisiantosa ◽  
Flavio Tidona
Keyword(s):  
Dairy Products ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Health Benefit ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Population Information ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Fermented Dairy Products ◽  
Fermented Dairy ◽  
Dairy Fermentation

Bacteria of the genus Lactobacillus have been employed in food fermentation for decades. Fermented dairy products, such as cheese and yogurt, are products of high value known as functional food and widely consumed due to their positive health impact. Fermentation was originally based on conversion of carbohydrate into organic acids, mostly lactic acid, intended to preserve nutrient in milk, but then it develops in other disclosure of capabilities associates with health benefit. It is expected that during the manufacture of fermented dairy products, some bioactive peptides from milk protein are released through proteolysis. Lactobacilli have been recognized and received increasing attention as probiotics by balancing gut microbial population. Information of molecular mechanisms of genome sequence focusing on the microbial that normally inhabit gut may explain as to how these bacteria positively give impact on improving host health. Recent post-biotics concept revealed that health benefit can also be associated after bacterial lysis. This mini review focuses on the contribution of lactobacilli in dairy fermentation with health-promoting properties on human health.

“Not Ready to Throw in the Towel”: Perceptions of Physical Activity Held by Older Adults in Stockholm and Dublin

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Breiffni Leavy ◽  
Anna Cristina Åberg
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Barriers To Exercise ◽  
Framework Approach ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
People’S Perceptions

The aim of this qualitative study was to explore and describe the perceptions of physical activity held by older urban Swedish and Irish adults. Qualitative interviews were carried out with 30 people age 65 years and older (mean age 74.5), of whom 15 were living in Dublin and 15 were living in Stockholm. The “thematic framework” approach was used to analyze the data. Three central themes were identified regarding people’s perceptions of physical activity: physical activity as self-expression, physical activity as interaction, and physical activity as health promotion. Participants’ perceptions of physical activity tended to relate to their perceived level of physical activity, regardless of their cultural background. Certain culture-specific motivators and barriers to exercise were also identified. Less active Irish men were more likely to underestimate the health-promoting benefits of exercise.

scholarly journals Health-promoting lifestyle behaviours of nursing students of a tertiary care institute

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 1768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pradip S. Borle ◽  
M. A. Parande ◽  
V. S. Tapare ◽  
Vidya Sanjeev Kamble ◽  
Pradymunaa C. Bulakh
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Food Practices ◽  
Care Institute ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Health Promoting Lifestyle

Background: In addition, Health promoting behaviours among the nursing students may affect the quality of patient education. Therefore, this study was undertaken to determine the health-promoting lifestyle behaviours of nursing students in a tertiary care institute, Maharashtra.Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on 124 nursing students. Health Promotion Lifestyle Profile Proforma (HPLP)was prepared which consists of two parts, Part I deals with the sociodemographic characteristics of the participants  and Part II of the proforma deals with Health-promoting lifestyle information which was a modified version of Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP II). It consists of 46 items divided into 7 subscales (Health responsibility, Physical activity, Food practices, Spiritual growth, Self-concept, Inter personal relations and Stress management). Internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) of this tool was 0.8197. Permission of Institute Ethical Committee was taken. Descriptive statistics were used to describe HPLP. Data was analyzed by using analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Mann Whitney test. Results: Majority 89(71.77%) were have good HPLP score and 29(23.39%) were excellent category. The mean overall (Total) HPLP score was 62.27±9.66 (range 33-87). The highest mean score in the subscale were for self-concept and spiritual growth. The lowest scores were for food practices and physical activity. Highly significant difference (p<0.0001) was found between overall mean HPLP scores among the different age groups.Conclusions: These nursing students had reasonably good orientations towards health behaviours. Attention need to be paid for healthier food choices. Health promotion planning to motivate students for regular physical activity with the purpose of promoting health and preventing diseases is necessary. 

scholarly journals Physical Activity and Health Promotion in Esports and Gaming–Discussing Unique Opportunities for an Unprecedented Cultural Phenomenon

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sascha Ketelhut ◽  
Anna Lisa Martin-Niedecken ◽  
Patrick Zimmermann ◽  
Claudio R. Nigg
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Implications ◽  
The Public ◽  
All Cause Mortality ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Evidence Based Guidelines ◽  
Health And Well Being

Due to long periods of sedentary behavior, and unhealthy diets gamers and esports players are at risk for numerous chronic diseases and all-cause mortality. Health research has started addressing the public health implications of the esports phenomenon, drawing a bleak picture of this megatrend. However, instead of just highlighting adverse public health implications of this trend, it is recommended to become involved in this phenomenon and positively influence it. Esports has an enormous potential for physical activity and health-promoting efforts, provides a context for broadly disseminating interventions, and offers new ways of gaining access to an often-neglected population. This paper presents: the potential of the esports phenomenon to promote physical activity, health, and well-being in gamers and esports players; the strategic and preventive solutions to ameliorate esports possible adverse health impacts; and the utilization of esports technology (streams, media platforms, exergames, etc.) as an innovative health promotion tool, especially reaching gamers and esports players with attractive and interactive interventions. This is to encourage systematic scientific research so that evidence-based guidelines and intervention strategies involving regular physical activity, healthy diet, and sleep hygiene for esports will be developed. The goal is to promote public health approaches that move toward a better integration of esports and gaming.

Community Gardens for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary J. Stein,
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Inverse Relationship ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Socioeconomic Resources ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
At Risk Populations

People with limited socioeconomic resources have increased incidence of chronic diseases and fewer means of promoting health of body, mind, and spirit. There is evidence of an inverse relationship between access to resources and chronic disease; thus, healthcare providers in communities with few resources have unique challenges in health promotion. Community gardens provide an opportunity to participate in holistic health-promoting behavior. This article presents support for the belief that healthcare that promotes development of and participation in community gardens can improve the health of at-risk populations through better nutrition, physical activity, and connection to the natural world.

scholarly journals Factors Influencing University Staff Health-Promoting Lifestyle Behaviours in Nigeria: A Qualitative Descriptive Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. Joseph-Shehu ◽  
Busisiwe P. Ncama
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Noncommunicable Diseases ◽  
Lifestyle Behaviour ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Health Promoting Lifestyle

Introduction: The role of health promoting-lifestyle in the prevention of noncommunicable diseases that is global epidemics cannot be emphasis. This study examined resources available in a university that enhance and maintain health-promoting lifestyle behaviour of staff and explore factors influencing health-promoting lifestyle behaviour of staff. Methods: The study adopted a qualitative descriptive study design. The study setting was a university with multiple satellite campuses and a staff total of 2,657 at the time of data collection. Data were collected from both academic and non-academic staff of the university through in-depth interviews. Data were analysed using content analysis and Nvivo version 11 was used for data management. Results: Health promotion resources available in the institution were a health facility, a nutritional facility and a physical and fitness facility. The findings revealed that factors influencing health-promoting lifestyle behaviour of staff were lack of institutional health policy and protocol, work overload, lack of planned and consistent health promotion awareness, and economic factors. The majority of our participants did not see health facilities as a means of health promotion; instead they saw it as a resource to be used when they were sick rather than for health promotion services like health screening. Conclusion: The study concluded that institutional health policy and protocol is key in improving the health of workers. Healthy workers made a healthy institution and for institutional aim to be achieved, workers need to be healthy. Therefore, emphasis should be placed on preventive management than curative management.

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