Browsing Health Promotion (Scholarly Articles) by Title
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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. ... -
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’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 ... -
Why a rights-based approach is essential to the Covid-19 response
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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 ... -
Workplace mistreatment: Health, working environment and social and economic factors
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2014-02)Objective: To explore patterns of workplace mistreatment, relationships with health and with selected workplace, economic and social factors in 34 countries. Methods: Secondary data analysis of the European Working Conditions ... -
Worldviews apart? Perceptions of place among rural, farm and urban young people in Ireland.
(Irish Youth Work Centre, 2007)In this paper, we report findings from a national survey of 8,316 Irish young people in 2002,which reveals the ways in which socio-spatial context impacts on young people's perceptions of the places in which they live and ... -
Youth participation in the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study
(Elsevier, 2020-06-01)[No abstract available]