Browsing Health Promotion (Scholarly Articles) by Title
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Barriers and facilitators to implementation of menu labelling interventions to support healthy food choices: a mixed methods systematic review protocol
(BioMed Central, 2018)Background Menu labelling is continuing to gather public and legislative support as one of the potential environmental strategies for addressing the obesity pandemic. However, issues relating to implementation have been ... -
Body mass index, overweight and obesity in adolescents in Europe and the United States
(American Medical Association, 2004-06)Overweight and obesity have increased globally among children, adolescents, and adults. The World Health Organization (WHO) designates obesity as one of the most important public health threats because of the significant ... -
Bridging the Digital Disconnect for Parents: Exploring Parents Views on Using Technology to Promote Young People s Mental Health.
(HPRC & Inspire Ireland and Young and Well CRC, 2013)Bridging the Digital Disconnect is a three-year program of research that aims to develop online mental health anddigital literacy resources for adults - including parents, teachers, youth workers, social workers, general ... -
Bridging the Digital Disconnect: Exploring Youth, Education, Health and Mental Health Professionals Views on Using Technology to Promote Young People s Mental Health
(HPRC, 2014)Bridging the Digital Disconnect is a three-year program of research that aims to develop online resources for adults, including parents, youth workers, education, health and mental health professionals who wish to ... -
Building capacity for effective implementation of mental health promotion
(eContent Management Pty Ltd, 2007-05)In Ireland, a country of just over 4 million people, there is now a strong infrastructure for health promotion with over 300 dedicated health promotion specialists working at the national and regional levels implementing ... -
Building capacity in workplace health promotion: the case of the Healthy Together e-learning project
(2010-03-26)The current global economic crisis poses major challenges for workplace health promotion (WHP). Activities that are not perceived to obviously and directly contribute to profits could be sacrificed. This paper argues that ... -
Bullying and incivility in higher education workplaces: Micropolitics and the abuse of power
(Emerald, 2017-09-11)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the lived experiences of workplace ill-treatment of administrative and technical staff in the higher education sector, with a particular focus on organisational ... -
Bullying and symptoms among school-aged children: international comparative cross sectional study in 28 countries
(Oxford Journals, 2005-03-08)Background: There have been no large-scale international comparisons on bullying and health among adolescents. This study examined the association between bullying and physical and psychological symptoms among adolescents ... -
Bullying and work-related stress in the Irish workplace
(MDPI, 2019-02-13)Work-related stress is increasing in prevalence, with important consequences for employees, employers, the economy, and wider society. While previous research has identified a link between work-related stress and bullying, ... -
Cannabis use by 15-year old schoolchildren. Data from the HBSC/WHO international survey in 32 countries.
(Princeps Editions, 2007)In the 32 western countries that participated in the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC-2002) survey conducted in schools by means of an anonymous self-administered questionnaire among 45,848 schoolchildren, ... -
Capacity building for the future of health promotion.
(SAGE Journals Online, 2008-09)This commentary outlines the work plan of the Global Vice President for Capacity Building, Education and Training over the period 2007-10. Two key areas are prioritised for action: workforce development in countries with ... -
Child well-being: children's, parents' and teachers' perceptions.
(National Institute of Health Sciences, 2008-10)That chldren's lives be better understood is a necessary contributing step to the development of child centred quality supports, services and policies and it would appear logical that actively seeking out children's voices ... -
Children photographing well-being: facilitating participation in research
(Wiley, 2006-09)Children aged 8-12 years took 723 photographs representing well-being. Another group of children categorised the photographs, identified what was missing and discussed their inter-relationships. The largest categories were ... -
Childrens', parents' and teachers' perceptions of child wellbeing.
(2007)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present an exploration of parents', teachers' and childrens' perspectives on children's understanding of wellbeing with the aim of illuminating and comparing the conceptualisation ... -
Children’s participation in school: a cross-sectional study of the relationship between school environments, participation and health and well-being outcomes
(BMC, 2014-09-17)Background: Schools are a key setting for health promotion and improvement activities and the psycho-social environment of the school is an important dimension for promoting the health and well-being of children. The ... -
Cluster randomisation and design effects in school surveys: an exploration of the Irish Health Behaviours in School-aged Children data.
(National Institute of Health Sciences, 2008-09)School surveys are typically conducted in classrooms where children are clustered and thus each participating student is not fully independent of others. Such unavoidable cluster randomisation increases the size of standard ... -
"Come for the weight-loss, stay for the enjoyment" - exploring attributions for initiating and maintaining exercise.
(Psychological Society of Ireland, 2001-05)The potential benefits from engaging in physical activity and exercise in terms of both physical and mental health are well established. Regular exercise has been demonstrated to have preventative effects for several chronic ... -
A community needs assessment for rural mental health promotion.
(Oxford Journals, 2000-06)This paper describes the needs assessment phase of a mental health promotion programme for rural communities in Ireland. As part of a larger study encompassing four rural communities, a cross-sectional study of the mental ... -
Comparing the clinical-effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an internet-delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) intervention with a waiting list control among adults with chronic pain: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2014-07-02)Internet-delivered psychological interventions among people with chronic pain have the potential to overcome environmental and economic barriers to the provision of evidence-based psychological treatment in the Irish health ... -
Concepts of illness causation and attitudes to health care among older people in the Republic of Ireland.
(Elsevier, 2002-01)Fifty-one older people (26 of them women) in the Republic of Ireland were interviewed using a semi-structured schedule on their health and illness experiences at three different time points in their lives; as children, as ...