Health Promotion / / edited by Mukadder Mollaoglu

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910687990503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : IntechOpen, , 2022; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 192 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 613
• Soggetti: Health promotion
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Health Promotion: Trajectory and Current Perspectives. 2. Perspective Chapter: Digital Assistive Technologies. 3. 'Lenzgesund': A Long-Term Community Health Promotion Programme in a Deprived Neighbourhood and Its Evaluation. 4. How to Support Health When Aging at a Place Called Second Home?5. Building Competency for Health Promoting Schools Development in Resource-Limited Settings: Case Studies from South Africa. 6. Physical Education Teacher's Professional Learning of Implementing a Health Promotion Intervention in the Practice of a Research Circle. 7. Art Therapy with the Extent of Health Promotion. 8. An Appropriate Quit Smoking Program for Thai People during the Covid-19 Pandemic. 9. Perspective Chapter: Tobacco Control in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Challenges and Recommendations. 10. Tobacco Use in Bangladesh. 11. A Decision Support System for the Surgical Care during the Epidemic of Covid-19. 12. The Well-Being of Doctors during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Sommario/riassunto: Effectively planning, implementing, and evaluating health promotion programs can promote behavioral and social change, contribute to the elimination of health inequalities, and improve health outcomes. The health promotion examples in this book illustrate how people are affected by the cultural, social, and environmental factors in which they live. It also reveals that the values, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of target groups have an impact on health promotion.Health Promotion consists of two parts. In the first part, chapters examine the concept of ; health promotion and the current situation in health promotion. In the second part, chapters provide examples of health promotion in different countries and fields, as well as examples of health promotion practices during the COVID-19 pandemic.