Browsing Health Promotion by Title
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Testing the feasibility of implementing a pan-European framework for health promotion accreditation
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Time for a paradigm change? Tracing the institutionalisation of health impact assessment in the Republic of Ireland across health and environmental sectors
(Elsevier, 2010-08)This paper presents a critical analysis of health impact assessment (HIA) in the Republic of Ireland (ROI) in the context of institutional policy and practice. It begins with a brief background to the origins and aims of ... -
Toward international collaboration on credentialing in health promotion and health education: The Galway Consensus Conference
(SAGE Journals Online, 2009-05)The interest in competencies, standards, and quality assurance in the professional preparation of public health professionals whose work involves health promotion and health education dates back several decades. In ... -
Toward international collaboration on credentialing in health promotion and health education: The Galway Consensus Conference.
(Society for Public Health Education, 2009-06)The interest in competencies, standards, and quality assurance in the professional preparation of public health professionals whose work involves health promotion and health education dates back several decades. In Australia, ... -
Towards building healthy school communities through healthy food access.
(Health Promotion Research Centre, NUI Galway, 2014)One of the goals of health promotion is to make it easier for people to make the healthy choice. Enabling students to make the healthy choice by improving access to, and availability of, healthy foods is essential in ... -
Towards understanding food poverty among Irish Children.
(National Institute of Health Sciences, 2008-04)Food proverty and food insufficiency are important public health issues, frequently linked to poverty and deprivation. However, research on the nature, extent, epidemiology and etiology of food poverty in childhood is ... -
Trends in health behaviours, health outcomes and contextual factors between 1998-2018: Findings from the Irish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study
(Health Promotion Research Centre, National University of Ireland Galway and Department of Health, Ireland, 2021)[No abstract available} -
Urban and rural patterns in adolescent alcohol consumption in Ireland.
(National Institute of Health Sciences, 2008-09)Excessive alcohol consumption remains a substantial public health concern in Ireland. in the 2006 Irish HBSC survey, about half of students aged 15-17 reported that they were current drinkers and just over a third that ... -
Usefulness of a competency-based reflective portfolio for student learning on a Masters Health Promotion programme
(SAGE Journals Online, 2011)Background: Efforts to identify core competencies within health promotion and health education have been on-going for a number of years. These efforts include work carried out by the International Union for Health Promotion ... -
Using vignette methodology to study comfort with consensual and nonconsensual depictions of pornography content
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2020-05-18)Spanking, whipping, and choking are examples of aggressive behaviours that can be performed in consensual sexual encounters. However, within the pornography research literature, such behaviours are often perceived as being ... -
The value of lost productivity from workplace bullying in Ireland
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020-05-18)Background Workplace bullying is a pervasive problem with significant personal, social and economic costs. Estimates of the resulting lost productivity provide an important societal perspective on the impact of the problem. ... -
Vegetable consumption among schoolchildren in Ireland. HBSC Ireland Research Factsheet No. 19
(2012)HBSC Ireland 2010 has found that 20.0% of schoolchildren in Ireland report eating vegetables everyday, more than once (18.7% of boys and 21.5% of girls). This figure represents a slight increase since 2006 (17.9%). There ... -
Weight reduction behaviors among European adolescents—Changes from 2001/2002 to 2017/2018.
(Elsevier, 2020-05-20)The purpose of this study was to analyze changes in the prevalence of weight reduction behaviors (WRBs) among European adolescents from 26 countries between 2001/2002 and 2017/2018. The impact of the perception of body ... -
What is the extent of food poverty in Ireland?
(Oxford Journals Online, 2004-01)For the first time in Ireland this study seeks to locate food poverty within a social exclusion framework wherein the inabili ty to enjoy an adequate and nutritious diet impacts on both health and well-being of individuals ... -
What makes mental health promotion effective?
(SAGE Journals Online, 2005-06-01)When designing a comprehensive strategy for mental health promotion, as that called for in the European WHO Action Plan for Mental Health (WHO, 2005), one possible effective framework for such a strategy is to take a ... -
What makes teachers tick? Sustaining events in new teachers lives.
(Taylor & Francis, 2009-05-07)To investigate what keeps teachers motivated on a day¿to¿day basis, we traced the importance of routinely encountered affective episodes. Significant research on emotions already highlights the relative importance of ... -
What works in enhancing social and emotional skills development during childhood and adolescence? A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of school-based and out-of-school programmes in the UK.
(W H O Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion Research, National University of Ireland Galway, 2015)IntroductionThis review sought to determine the current evidence on the effectiveness of programmes available in theUK that aim to enhance the social and emotional skills development of children and young people aged ... -
What’s Consuming Ireland? Exploring expressed attitudes and reported behaviours towards the environment and consumption across three study sites on the island of Ireland
(Geographical Society of Ireland, 2016)Household consumption levels are escalating across the island of Ireland. Although emissions from transport and construction sectors have experienced a temporary decrease due to the economic downturn, overall emissions ... -
Where do young Irish women want Chlamydia-screening services to be set up? A qualitative study employing Goffman's impression management framework
(Elsevier, 2009-08-20)We conducted interviews with 35 young women recruited from eight community healthcare rural and urban settings across two regions of Ireland. The aim of the study was to explore where these women thought Chlamydia-screening ... -
Workplace bullying and incivility: A systematic review of interventions
(Emerald, 2014-03-04)Purpose Workplace mistreatment has a negative impact on the health and well-being of approximately 20 per cent of workers. Despite this, few interventions have been evaluated and published. The purpose of this paper is ...