Preventing suicides in prison settings – the role of mental health promotion policies and programs

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niyi Awofeso
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Mental Health Promotion ◽  
Promotion Policies ◽  
Policies And Programs

scholarly journals The Utilization of School Health Unit in Promoting Children's Mental Health in Kelurahan Limo Depok

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-212
Author(s):  
Evin Novianti ◽  
Duma Lumban Tobing
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
School Health ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Mental Health Promotion ◽  
State School ◽  
Health Unit ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Elementary State

School Health Unit (UKS) is conceived to accommodate children's problems, either physically, psychologically, emotionally, morally, or spiritually. However, in its implementation, the majority of UKS in schools tend to handle physical complaints rather than provide more holistic services. The purpose of this commmunity-empowerment activity was to increase the role of nurses in the physical and mental health promotion of school children by examining the UKS role in Elementary State School (SDN) 01 Limo. The community-empowerment activity carried out included the provision of material about growing children both physically and mentally, training parents to communicate assertively with the child by responding positively to the child's emotions. Before the activity was implemented, 60 respondents were measured for their ability to handle the material and the assertive communication. By using the Paired T-test, the result of a significant influence on the improvement of knowledge, attitudes and psychomotor with pvalue = 0,000 (P < 0.05) was obtained. The respondents’ knowledge increase by 6.51 points, psychomotor 5.73 points, and attitude 2.46 points. It was concluded that mental health promotion efforts incorporated in UKS should be continued as the flagship program of SDN 01 Limo.

scholarly journals Healthy People: The Role of Law and Policy in the Nation's Public Health Agenda

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (S2) ◽  
pp. 63-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela K. McGowan ◽  
K.T. Kramer ◽  
Joel B. Teitelbaum
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Disease Prevention ◽  
National Health ◽  
Healthy People ◽  
Health Goals ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Promotion Policies ◽  
Prevention And Health Promotion ◽  
Policies And Programs

Each decade since 1979, the Healthy People initiative establishes the national prevention agenda and provides the foundation for disease prevention and health promotion policies and programs. Law and policy have been included in Healthy People objectives from the start, but not integrated into the overall initiative as well as possible to potentially leverage change to meet Healthy People targets and goals. This article provides background on the Healthy People initiative and its use among various stakeholder groups, describes the work of a project aiming to better integrate law and policy into this initiative, and discusses the development of Healthy People 2030 — the next iteration of health goals for the nation. Lessons from the preliminary stages of developing Healthy People by the HHS Secretary's Advisory Committee (Committee) on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2030 and a Federal Interagency Workgroup will be included. Efforts by the Committee focused on the role of law and policy as determinants of health and valuable resources around health equity are also shared. Finally, the article discusses ways that law and policy can potentially be tools to help meet Healthy People targets and to attain national health goals.

scholarly journals Towards mental health promotion in prisons: the role of screening for emotional distress

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 90-94
Author(s):  
M. R. Krespi Boothby ◽  
I. Mulholland ◽  
A. Cases ◽  
K. Carrington ◽  
T. Bolger
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Emotional Distress ◽  
Mental Health Promotion
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