New frontiers in alcohol and gender: The role of health promotion policy and practice in Australia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Merlino ◽  
Sarah Clifford ◽  
James A. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Promotion Policy ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Advocating for Health Promotion Policy in Norway: The Role of the County Municipalities

Societies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Fosse ◽  
Marit Helgesen
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Promotion Policy

‘Recognition of competition’ versus Will to App: rethinking digital engagement in Australian youth sexual health promotion policy and practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 171 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kath Albury
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Online News ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Promotion Policy ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Government Websites ◽  
Digital Engagement

Recent Australian research has found that young people (broadly defined as 15–30-year-olds) express a strong preference for seeking out digital sexual health information that is produced by authoritative sources (e.g. government websites), but are more likely to share material that is funny and/or features intimate first-person narratives. This produces a tension for sexual health messaging that aims to flag credibility, but also ‘spreadability’ – and perhaps even ‘relatability’. This tension is not exclusive to health communication, but has much in common with challenges facing digital news publishers who have struggled in recent years to tread a line between authoritativeness and clickbait. Drawing on participant observation of Australian sexual health promotion policy and practice and studies of online news and activism, this article reflects on the challenges and opportunities facing Australian sexual health organisations seeking to work with young people in digital spaces. A range of brief case studies of models offered by successful digital publishers, such as Vice and Upworthy, are offered as alternatives to the ‘Will to App’.

scholarly journals Health Brokers: How Can They Help Deal with the Wickedness of Public Health Problems?

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celeste E. van Rinsum ◽  
Sanne M. P. L. Gerards ◽  
Geert M. Rutten ◽  
Ien A. M. van de Goor ◽  
Stef P. J. Kremers
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Network Formation ◽  
Intersectoral Collaboration ◽  
Semistructured Interview ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Operational Approach ◽  
Related Factors

Background. The role of health broker is a relatively new one in public health. Health brokers aim to create support for efforts to optimise health promotion in complex or even “wicked” public health contexts by facilitating intersectoral collaborations and by exchanging knowledge with different stakeholders. The current study aimed to explore the role of health brokers, by examining the motivational, contextual, and behaviour-related factors they have to deal with. Methods. Fifteen professionals from various backgrounds and from various policy and practice organisations were recruited for a semistructured interview. To structure the interviews, we developed the “Health Broker Wheel” (HBW), a framework we then specified with more details derived from the interviews. Results. We identified seven primary types of behaviour that health brokers need to engage in: recognizing opportunities, agenda setting, implementing, network formation, intersectoral collaboration, adaptive managing, and leadership. Determinants of health brokers’ behaviours were identified and categorised as capability, opportunities, motivation, and local or national contextual factors. Conclusion. The health brokers’ role can be seen as an operational approach and is visualised in the HBW. This framework can assist further research to monitor and evaluate this role, and health promotion practitioners can use it as a tool to implement the health brokers’ role and to facilitate intersectoral collaboration.

‘Empowerment’ as women’s emancipation? A global analysis of the empowerment paradigm and the influence of feminism in women’s NGOs1

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Global Analysis ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Global Study ◽  
Policy Level ◽  
Women's Emancipation ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Equality Policy

This chapter analyses the ‘empowerment paradigm’ that informs many gender equality policies and programmes. The discussion draws on the findings of a global study inquiring into women’s NGOs; their understanding of empowerment and gender equality and how these inform their work. The chapter explores how concepts of gender equality and empowerment can be seen as emancipatory and how they are understood and applied at a global social policy level. Furthermore, given the intrinsic relationship between women’s emancipation and feminism, the chapter also explores the contemporary role of feminism within women’s NGOs. The data supports a critical analysis of the way that the concept of empowerment has become simultaneously subverted and yet highly influential within gender equality policy and practice.

scholarly journals The Power of Recognition: A Qualitative Study of Social Connectedness and Wellbeing through LGBT Sporting, Creative and Social Groups in Ireland

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (19) ◽  
pp. 3636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nerilee Ceatha ◽  
Paula Mayock ◽  
Jim Campbell ◽  
Chris Noone ◽  
Kath Browne
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Social Wellbeing ◽  
Social Interests ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Depth Interviews

The broad research consensus suggesting substantial vulnerabilities among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities may fail to recognize the protective factors available to these populations. The sparse literature on mental health promotion highlights the importance of understanding strengths-based community approaches that promote LGBT wellbeing. Informed by the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, underpinned by Honneth’s Theory of Recognition, this paper outlines the findings of a qualitative Irish study on LGBT social connectedness through a diverse range of sporting, creative and social interests. Ten in-depth interviews were conducted with 11 people (including one couple) who self-identified as lesbian (5), gay (4), bisexual (1) and transgender (1) aged between 22 and 56 years. A university Research Ethics Committee granted approval. The data were transcribed and coded using thematic analysis, enhanced through a memo-writing approach to reflexivity. The theme of ‘connecting’ emphasized the shared nature of activities, with like-minded others through groups established by, and for, LGBT communities. Messages from the study reinforce the central role of LGBT communities in the promotion of mental health and social wellbeing, with important policy and practice implications. This requires the contextualization of the contribution of LGBT communities within understandings of social justice, identity and recognition.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Elana D. Buch
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Care Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
And Gender

This chapter introduces a contextual, theoretical, and methodological framework for analyzing contemporary care work. Building on long-standing feminist critiques, Buch advances the concept of generative labor to analyze the social meanings and effects of daily care practices. The introduction examines the role of independence as a foundational value driving care policy and practice. It argues that paid care work generates independent persons by capitalizing on racial, class, and gender inequality. The introduction also describes the ethnographic fieldwork upon which the book is based.

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