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Durey A, Ward P, Haynes E, Baker SR, Calache H, Slack-Smith L. Applying Social Practice Theory to Explore Australian Preschool Children's Oral Health. JDR Clin Trans Res 2024:23800844241235615. [PMID: 38623874 DOI: 10.1177/23800844241235615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/17/2024] Open
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INTRODUCTION Despite substantial research and provision of dental care, significant morbidity remains for children's oral health. Guided by social practice theory (SPT), this research moves away from the often-ineffective focus on changing individual behavior to rethinking the centrality of the social world in promoting or undermining oral health outcomes. We define social practice as a routinized relational activity linking and integrating certain elements (competence, materials, and meanings) into the performance of a practice that is reproduced across time and space. OBJECTIVE To investigate oral health in preschool children in Perth, Western Australia, using social practice theory. METHODS With no definitive methodology for investigating SPT, we chose focused ethnography as a problem-focused, context-specific approach using mainly interviews to investigate participants' experience caring for their children's oral health. The focus of analysis was the practice of oral health care, not individual behavior, where themes identified from participants' transcripts were organized into categories of elements and performance. RESULTS Eleven parents, all of whom were married or partnered, were interviewed in 2021. Findings identified social practices relevant to oral health within parenting and family relations linked to routine daily activities, including shopping, consumption of food and beverages, and toothbrushing. Oral health literacy was reflected in integrating competence, materials, and meanings into performing oral health care, notably preferences for children to drink water over sugary beverages and information often being sourced from social media and mothers' groups rather than health providers. CONCLUSION Focusing on social practices as the unit of analysis offers a more layered understanding of elements in young children's oral health care that can indicate where the problem may lie. Findings provide an opportunity to consider future research and policy directions in children's oral health. KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER STATEMENT Examining social practices related to young children's oral health care identifies parents/carers' knowledge about, for example, toothbrushing, the resources required, and why toothbrushing is important. Analyzing these separate elements can reveal both enablers and barriers to oral health care. This provides researchers, clinicians and policymakers an opportunity to focus on not changing individual behavior but understanding how social context impacts parents/carers' capacity to make optimum decisions around young children's oral health.
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- A Durey
- School of Population and Global Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- Research Centre for Public Health, Equity and Human Flourishing, Torrens University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- School of Population and Global Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- School of Clinical Dentistry, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK
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- La Trobe University, Department of Clinical Sciences, La Trobe Rural Health School, Bendigo, VIC, Australia
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- School of Population and Global Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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Gamble T, Taylor J, O'Hara L, Cole R. Characteristics, enablers, and barriers to the community health and wellbeing assessment component of the health promotion practice cycle: a scoping review protocol. JBI Evid Synth 2024:02174543-990000000-00293. [PMID: 38596866 DOI: 10.11124/jbies-23-00299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
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OBJECTIVE The proposed review will describe the characteristics, enablers, and barriers to the community health and well-being assessment (CHWA) component of the health promotion practice cycle. INTRODUCTION CHWA guides health promotion action in communities and populations. A "critical" approach to CHWA can be adopted, which addresses the social, political, cultural, economic, commercial, and environmental determinants of health and well-being to enhance health equity for priority communities and populations. Although tools exist to guide such a critical approach, little is known about the extent to which these tools are being used or the barriers and enablers to applying best practice CHWA. Such evidence is needed to inform future health promotion CHWA and research. INCLUSION CRITERIA This review will consider literature that describes CHWA conducted in health promotion practice, focusing on an organizational, social, or geographical community or population. Literature that focuses on clinical practice or a specific health condition will be excluded. METHODS Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, and CINAHL (EBSCOhost) will be searched to identify peer-reviewed articles. Google Scholar and Google, as well as Public Health, Health & Medical, and Nursing and Allied Health (ProQuest) databases will be searched for gray literature. Articles will be screened and data extracted by 2 or more independent reviewers. The data extraction tool will be developed by the reviewers based on the JBI template and a critical health promotion approach to CHWA. Data will be analyzed and presented as frequency tables and narrative summaries of the characteristics, enablers, and barriers to CHWA. DETAILS OF THE PROTOCOL ARE AVAILABLE ON OPEN SCIENCE FRAMEWORK osf.io/jq8th/.
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- Tara Gamble
- School of Health, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Qld, Australia
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- School of Health, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Qld, Australia
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- Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
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- School of Health, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Qld, Australia
- Country to Coast Queensland Primary Health Network, Maroochydore, Qld, Australia
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Cash-Gibson L, Benach J. Understanding Health Inequalities Research Capacities: Insights and Recommendations From Comparing Two High Income Settings. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES 2024; 54:163-170. [PMID: 38311911 DOI: 10.1177/27551938241230006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2024]
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Generating evidence on health inequalities (HI) is necessary to raise awareness of these issues, describe and monitor their evolution, analyze their causes, and inform interventions aiming to improve health equity. Yet not all cities and countries have the capacity to produce this type of research. Recent research provides new contextual and causal insights into this research production process, and in-depth understanding on why and how this type of research is produced in certain settings. This article aims to analyze two recent case studies that have uniquely explored this process in two high producers of HI research and high-income country settings to identify learning and distil recommendations, which may be insightful for other settings. Expanding and investing in this line of research is critical, particularly in places with lower HI research output and related capacity, in order to identify key contextual conditions and mechanisms that may enable or hinder this process. This new knowledge could guide the development of new HI research capacity strengthening strategies to foster this research in different settings, worldwide. More understanding is also needed on the relationship between HI research, policy, and action in order to tackle HI.
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- Lucinda Cash-Gibson
- Research Group on Health Inequalities, Environment, and Employment Conditions (GREDS-EMCONET), Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Johns Hopkins University-Universitat Pompeu Fabra Public Policy Center (UPF-BSM), Barcelona, Spain
- UPF- Barcelona School of Management (UPF-BSM), University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Group on Health Inequalities, Environment, and Employment Conditions (GREDS-EMCONET), Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Johns Hopkins University-Universitat Pompeu Fabra Public Policy Center (UPF-BSM), Barcelona, Spain
- UPF- Barcelona School of Management (UPF-BSM), University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Health Policy & Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA
- Ecological Humanities Research Group (GHECO), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Joseph G. The role of sovereignty in Indigenous community-based health interventions: A qualitative metasynthesis. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 2024; 73:216-233. [PMID: 37058286 DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2021] [Revised: 06/01/2022] [Accepted: 01/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Indigenous peoples around the world suffer from health disparities attributed to a plethora of risk factors and social determinants of health stemming from colonialism and systemic oppression. Community-based health interventions have been identified as a means for addressing and reducing Indigenous health disparities by allowing for Indigenous sovereignty to be respected and centered. However, sovereignty relating to Indigenous health and well-being is underresearched. The present article explores the role of sovereignty in Indigenous community-based health interventions. A qualitative metasynthesis was conducted among 14 primary research studies co-authored by Indigenous people describing and evaluating Indigenous community-based health interventions. Five conceptual themes emerged as aspects of sovereignty which benefit Indigenous health and well-being outcomes: integration of culture; relocation of knowledge; connectedness; self-actualization; and stewardship. Implications are discussed, with the goal of creating a decolonial framework rooted in Indigenous epistemologies and perspectives for how sovereignty impacts Indigenous health, as well as strengthening a clear need for further research on and praxis of sovereignty in Indigenous healthcare.
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- Gillian Joseph
- Center for World Indigenous Studies, Olympia, Washington, USA
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Kim-Mozeleski JE, Smell A, Castele MC, Ogden E, Trapl ES. Assessing the Feasibility of Conducting Smoking Cessation Outreach in Food Pantries: A Pilot Intervention Study. Nicotine Tob Res 2024; 26:46-53. [PMID: 37531409 PMCID: PMC10734382 DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntad137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2023] [Revised: 07/25/2023] [Accepted: 07/31/2023] [Indexed: 08/04/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Smoking prevalence is high among US adults with food insecurity. This study examined how food assistance settings, namely food pantries, can serve as a community-based venue to reach food insecure adults who smoke for smoking cessation. METHODS Partnering with a local hunger relief organization, we conducted surveys and focus groups of food pantry clients in Greater Cleveland, Ohio, followed by food pantry-based outreach events to connect people who smoke to the Ohio Tobacco Quit Line. RESULTS The survey included 132 participants who visited a food pantry (M age = 47; 74% women; 39% Black/African American), of whom 35% were using tobacco and 31% were smoking cigarettes. Among those currently smoking (M cigarettes/day = 9), 76% intended to quit in the next 6 months, and 82% had not used nor heard of the quitline. Informed by focus group themes, we conducted a total of 22 outreach events at four pantries. Among those interested in smoking cessation resources from the outreach events (n = 54), 78% were able to be subsequently contacted. Of them, 74% provided consent for quitline referral. The remainder either declined or were unable to participate. CONCLUSIONS While it was feasible to leverage food pantries for smoking cessation outreach, the overall reach was low. Despite high interest in quitting, there was limited effectiveness of outreach efforts without adaptations to each pantry setting and in recognition of the immediate food needs and with challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic. There remains a critical need to address high rates of smoking among populations experiencing food insecurity. IMPLICATIONS Tobacco cessation services are increasingly recognizing the need to address food insecurity and other social needs that commonly occur in populations who use tobacco at higher rates. This research underscores both the value and the challenges related to leveraging food pantries as a community-based venue for smoking cessation outreach. In addition to improvements in outreach models, long-term investments in structural interventions are also needed to address underlying poverty and socioeconomic disadvantage that ultimately drive disparities in smoking and in food insecurity.
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- Jin E Kim-Mozeleski
- Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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Venturoso Gongora Buckeridge Serra M, Montesanti AP, Brunherotti MAA, Martínez-Riera JR. Health indicators in Brazil and Spain: strategies for health promoting universities. Glob Health Promot 2023:17579759231213852. [PMID: 38142294 DOI: 10.1177/17579759231213852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2023]
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AIMS The study aims to identify and compare health indicators collected by national research in Spain and in Brazil that can generate action strategies for health promoting universities. METHODS This is an epidemiological, descriptive, cross-sectional study that uses the database of the Secretariat of Health Surveillance of the Brazilian Ministry of Health and the database of the National Statistics Institute of Spain. Based on the National Health Promotion Policy, the analyzer axis prioritizes defined themes; percentage of physical exercise, daily smokers, sedentary lifestyle, obesity and self-perception of health status were evaluated. The data were collected from 2014 to 2020. RESULTS In Brazil, physical exercise is the highest percentage indicator, whereas in Spain, sedentary lifestyle is the highest. Regarding the age group, Brazil presented the lowest prevalence of daily smokers in the age group from 18 to 24, with little increase in older age groups; in Spain, older age groups presented the highest rates of sedentary lifestyle and obesity. In 2020, 4.5% of Brazilians reported a negative self-perception of health and in Spain 6.6%. CONCLUSION The indicators 'physical exercise', 'daily smokers' and 'sedentary lifestyle' presented better results in Brazil than in Spain. Brazil presents a better perspective on health when compared with Spain, as the results showed that older ages present higher rates of sedentary lifestyle and obesity. Our study results also show that Brazilians report better self-perception in health, which can be interpreted by health promotion strategies.
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- University of Alicante, Department of Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine and Public Health and History of Science, Spain
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Paul J, Merz S, Bergholz A, König F, Weigt J, Eich-Krohm A, Apfelbacher C, Holmberg C. Social health: rethinking the concept through social practice theory and feminist care ethics. MEDICAL HUMANITIES 2023; 49:752-759. [PMID: 37657910 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2022-012535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/21/2023] [Indexed: 09/03/2023]
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The social sciences have long shown that health is not born of pure biology, empirically (re)centred the social and material causes of disease, and affirmed the subjective experiences of disease. Disputed both in popular and academic discourses, social health has variously attempted to stress the social aspects of health. Existing conceptions remain analytically limited as they are predominantly used as descriptors for populational health. This article theorises social health as an analytical lens for making sense of the relations, affects and events where health unfolds and comes into expression. Drawing on social practice theory, feminist care ethics and posthumanism this conceptual paper re-imagines how social health might be conceived as lived social practices anchored in care. Care within our framework acknowledges the unavoidable interdependency foundational to the existence of beings and stresses the 'know how' and embodied practices of care in the mundane in order to emphasise that care itself is absolutely integral to the maintenance of social health. The article argues that health needs to be understood as a verb intrinsically (re)made in and through social contexts and structures and comprised of meaningful, human-human and human-non-human interactions. Ultimately, in theorising social health through mundane care practices, we hope to open up research to making sense of how the doing of health unfolds inside often banal, patterned forms of social activity. Such taken-for-granted social practices exemplify the often overlooked lived realities that comprise our health. To understand health in its own right, we argue, these everyday practices need to be interrogated.
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- Joshua Paul
- Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg CAMPUS GmbH, Neuruppin, Germany
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- Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg CAMPUS GmbH, Neuruppin, Germany
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- Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg CAMPUS GmbH, Neuruppin, Germany
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- Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg CAMPUS GmbH, Neuruppin, Germany
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- Faculty of Medicine, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg Institute of Social Medicine and Health Economics, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Faculty of Medicine, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg Institute of Social Medicine and Health Economics, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Faculty of Medicine, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg Institute of Social Medicine and Health Economics, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg CAMPUS GmbH, Neuruppin, Germany
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Frohlich KL, Collins PA. Children's right to the city and their independent mobility: why it matters for public health. J Epidemiol Community Health 2023; 78:66-68. [PMID: 37536920 PMCID: PMC10715529 DOI: 10.1136/jech-2023-221067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2023] [Accepted: 07/15/2023] [Indexed: 08/05/2023]
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Automobile-centric community design, or 'motornormativity', severely restricts opportunities for children to engage in active transportation (AT) and outdoor free play (OFP). As these activities are critical to children's health and well-being, their decline has become a major public health concern. Meanwhile, independent mobility (IM) has emerged as a critical determinant of child development and well-being. Defined as 'the freedom for children to move about their neighbourhood without adult supervision', children's IM is in direct conflict with motornormativity. And yet, very few studies explore these three practices together, and very few public health interventions actively confront motornormativity to support children's IM. We hypothesise that IM is foundational to AT and OFP, and that efforts to increase AT and OFP are doomed to fail without a deep understanding of the barriers to children's IM. We conclude with ideas to study and support children's IM in public health research and practice.
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- Katherine L Frohlich
- Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Centre de Recherche en Santé Publique (CReSP), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- School of Urban and Regional Planning, Department of Geography and Planning, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Kebeh M, Dlott CC, Kurek D, Morris JC, Wiznia DH. Orthopaedic Nurse Navigators and Total Joint Arthroplasty Preoperative Optimization: Substance Use. Orthop Nurs 2023; 42:334-343. [PMID: 37989152 PMCID: PMC10664865 DOI: 10.1097/nor.0000000000000983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2023] Open
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Substance use is one of the most common risk factors contributing to complications following total joint arthroplasty. Preoperative optimization programs can help patients modify or stop substance use. The purpose of this study was to provide recommendations and resources that will help nurse navigators standardize and improve preoperative optimization protocols regarding substance use. In a semistructured format, we asked nurse navigators how smoking, alcohol use, and opioid use were addressed. We conducted a literature review and combined findings with nurse navigator reports to create practice recommendations. We recommend consistently referring patients who smoke to smoking cessation programs; using validated screening tools to evaluate alcohol use and involving internists in caring for patients at risk for withdrawal; and involving pain specialists and local resources to assist patients who use opioids. There is a breadth of resources for managing substance use that nurse navigators can utilize to support stronger and more consistent preoperative optimization protocols.
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- Martha Kebeh
- Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses and Movement is Life, Chicago, IL, USA
- OrthoVirginia, Chesterfield, VA, USA
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- Hospital Medicine Service, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, USA
- Smilow Cancer Hospital, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, USA
- Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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Robson M, Riley S, Gagen E, McKeogh D. Love and lifestyle: how 'relational healthism' structures couples' talk of engagement with lifestyle advice associated with a new diagnosis of coronary heart disease. Psychol Health 2023; 38:1606-1622. [PMID: 35187996 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2022.2033240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2021] [Revised: 12/17/2021] [Accepted: 01/11/2022] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Healthy lifestyle change improves outcomes in coronary heart disease (CHD), but is rarely sustained. To better understand barriers to lifestyle change, we examined couples' talk of engaging with lifestyle advice after one partner receives a diagnosis of CHD. DESIGN A longitudinal qualitative design, in which a poststructuralist discourse analysis was performed on 35 interviews, conducted with 22 heterosexual British people in a long term relationship. The interviews occurred over three months after one partner was referred to a cardiac rehabilitation programme designed to support lifestyle change. RESULTS Couples understood their health as a shared practice underpinned by an ideological framework of healthism, creating a form of 'relational healthism'. Practicing relational healthism was not straightforward because the practices of surveillance, control, and discipline related to healthism often contravened relationship norms of support, acceptance and respect for the other's autonomy. Couples struggled to resolve this tension, dynamically adopting, resisting, and occasionally transforming discourses of health and love in ways that worked for and against engagement in lifestyle change. CONCLUSION In foregrounding the discursive and relational contexts of behavioural change engagement, we show the considerable complexity for couples, including costs related to engagement with lifestyle advice.
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- Martine Robson
- Department of Psychology, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK
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- School of Psychology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Department of Geography, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK
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Fincham S, O'Hara L, Cole R, Taylor J. Characterization of critical health promotion: a scoping review protocol. JBI Evid Synth 2023; 21:2264-2271. [PMID: 37435684 DOI: 10.11124/jbies-23-00008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/13/2023]
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OBJECTIVE This scoping review will explore how critical health promotion is characterized in the health promotion literature. INTRODUCTION Critical health promotion has emerged as a social justice approach to health promotion to address the persistent global issue of health inequity. Whilst critical health promotion is not conceptually new and the term has been used in the literature, albeit sparingly, this approach has not been adopted as standard health promotion practice, compromising the advancement of health equity. Given that language shapes the understanding and practice of health promotion, it is imperative to explore how critical health promotion is characterized in the literature to increase uptake of the approach. INCLUSION CRITERIA This review will consider sources that explore critical health promotion and are explicitly positioned as health promotion sources. METHODS Scopus, CINAHL (EBSCOhost), PubMed, Global Health (CABI), and the Public Health Database (ProQuest) will be searched to identify relevant full-text papers, including original research, reviews, editorials, and opinion papers. Searches of Google Scholar, Google, and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest) will be undertaken to identify gray literature. No language or date restrictions will be applied. Two reviewers will screen sources and extract data using a tool that will be pilot tested, modified, and revised, as necessary. Analysis will involve basic frequency counts and descriptive qualitative content analysis through basic coding. The results will be presented in tables, charts, and word clouds, accompanied by a narrative summary.
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- Susanne Fincham
- School of Health, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
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- School of Health, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, QLD, Australia
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- School of Health, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, QLD, Australia
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Haines-Saah R, McLaren L. A cautionary tale: university institutes of public health must "walk the talk". CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH = REVUE CANADIENNE DE SANTE PUBLIQUE 2023; 114:710-713. [PMID: 37644254 PMCID: PMC10484852 DOI: 10.17269/s41997-023-00815-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
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- Rebecca Haines-Saah
- Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
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Mohammadzadeh P, Moradpour F, Nouri B, Mostafavi F, Najafi F, Moradi G. Socioeconomic inequalities in metabolic syndrome and its components in a sample of Iranian Kurdish adults. Epidemiol Health 2023; 45:e2023083. [PMID: 37723842 PMCID: PMC10867515 DOI: 10.4178/epih.e2023083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2023] [Accepted: 08/15/2023] [Indexed: 09/20/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVES The worldwide incidence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) has increased in recent decades. In this study, we investigated the socioeconomic inequalities associated with MetS and its components in a sample of the Iranian Kurdish population. METHODS We used data from 3,996 participants, aged 35 years to 70 years, from the baseline phase of the Dehgolan Prospective Cohort Study (February 2018 to March 2019). The concentration index and concentration curve were used to measure inequality and the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method was used to examine the contribution of various determinants to the observed socioeconomic inequality in MetS and its components. RESULTS The prevalence of MetS was 34.44% (95% confidence interval [CI], 32.97 to 35.93). The prevalence of MetS was 26.18% for those in the highest socioeconomic status (SES), compared with 40.51% for participants in the lowest SES. There was a significant negative concentration index for MetS (C=-0.13; 95% CI, -0.16 to -0.09), indicating a concentration of MetS among participants with a lower SES. The most prevalent component was abdominal obesity (59.14%) with a significant negative concentration index (C=-0.21; 95% CI, -0.25 to -0.18). According to decomposition analysis, age, gender, and education were the highest contributing factors to inequality in MetS and its components. CONCLUSIONS This study showed socioeconomic inequality in MetS. People with a low SES were more likely to have MetS. Therefore, policymakers and health managers need to develop appropriate strategies to reduce these inequalities in MetS across age groups, genders, and education levels, especially among women and the elderly.
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- Pardis Mohammadzadeh
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
- Student Research Committee, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
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- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
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- Health Metrics and Evaluation Research Center, Research Institute for Health Development, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Safety, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
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Spoel P, Lacelle N, Millar A. Constituting good health citizenship through British Columbia's COVID-19 public updates. Health (London) 2023; 27:770-788. [PMID: 34875901 DOI: 10.1177/13634593211064115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has augmented discourses of individual citizen responsibility for collective health. This article explores how British Columbia, Canada's widely praised COVID-19 communication participates in the development of neo-communitarian "active citizenship" governmentalities focused on the civic duty of voluntarily taking responsibility for the health of one's community. We do so by investigating how public health updates from BC's acclaimed Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry articulate this civic imperative through the rhetorical constitution of the "good covid citizen." Our rhetorical analysis shows how this pro-social communication interpellates citizens within a discourse of behavioral, epistemic, and ethical responsibilisation. The communal ethos constituted through this public health communication significantly increases the burden of personal responsibility for health beyond norms of self-care. Making the protection of community health primarily the responsibility of individual citizens also presumes a privileged identity of empowered, active agency and implicitly excludes citizens who lack the means to successfully fulfill the expectations of good covid citizenship.
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Jung HH, Kim HJ, Fredriksen-Goldsen K. Identifying Latent Patterns and Predictors of Health Behaviors and Healthcare Barriers Among LGBT Older Adults. PREVENTION SCIENCE : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION RESEARCH 2023; 24:1115-1127. [PMID: 36763229 PMCID: PMC10412727 DOI: 10.1007/s11121-023-01494-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/16/2023] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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Heightened risk of adverse health behaviors is of major concern among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) older adults. Yet, no previous research has investigated heterogeneity of LGBT older adults on a set of health behaviors in conjunction with healthcare barriers. We aim to identify latent classes of the behavior and barrier patterns and examine differences in physical and psychological health-related quality of life (HRQOL) by the specified latent classes while exploring predictors of the class membership. Three-step latent class analysis applying survey weights was conducted with 14 indicators of health-risk behavior, health-promoting behavior, preventive care use, and healthcare barriers from baseline data of the Aging with Pride: National Health, Aging, and Sexuality/Gender Study (NHAS, N = 2450). The best empirical and substantive fit was determined with four classes consisting of (1) healthy behaviors and minimal barriers (C1, 39%), (2) less healthy behaviors and high barriers (C2, 31%), (3) healthy behaviors and healthcare system barriers (C3, 19%), and (4) optimal health behaviors with risks of limited healthcare access (C4, 11%). Compared to C1, C2 and C3 had lower physical HRQOL and C2 also had lower psychological HRQOL. C4 did not differ in HRQOL from C1. C2 was associated with more day-to-day discrimination, lower mastery, and lower social support. Efforts to lower healthcare barriers are warranted in addition to interventions to strengthen social support and reduce marginalization. Positive relationships between LGBT older adults and healthcare need to be established via trust-building and cultural competency.
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- Hailey H Jung
- School of Social Work, University of Washington, 4101 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA.
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- School of Social Work, University of Washington, 4101 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA
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Mukoma G, Bosire EN, Klingberg S, Norris SA. Healthy eating and physical activity: Analysing Soweto's young adults' perspectives with an intersectionality lens. PLOS GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH 2023; 3:e0001429. [PMID: 37467201 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0001429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2022] [Accepted: 06/20/2023] [Indexed: 07/21/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are taking a toll on Africa's youth at younger ages than in other regions. These are attributed to risk factors that usually advance in adolescence, such as unhealthy diets and reduced physical activity. Young adults in South Africa, particularly women, tend to be sedentary, consume energy-dense diets low in micronutrients, and are more likely to develop NCDs much earlier in life than those in high-income countries. With an intersectionality perspective, this study explored young adults' barriers and solutions to addressing these risk factors in Soweto. SETTING Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, is one of the most well-known historically disadvantaged townships known for its established communities, and socioeconomic and cultural diversity. Design: A qualitative investigation utilising focus group discussions (FGDs) with a topic guide. FGDs were transcribed verbatim and thematically analysed using a combination of deductive and inductive approaches. PARTICIPANTS 15 Men and 15 women 18-24 years of age living in Soweto (n = 30). Results: South African young adults have a basic understanding of the significance of nutrition, exercise, and their ties to health. However, numerous barriers (like taste, affordability and crime) to such behaviours were reported, arising from the participants' personal, domestic, social, and local community levels. Young women experienced sexism and had safety concerns while exercising in the streets, while young men tended to describe themselves as lazy to engage in exercise as they find it boring. CONCLUSIONS Young adults face a multitude of intersecting barriers, making it difficult to adopt or sustain health-promoting behaviours. It is important that potential solutions focus on the intersections of barriers to healthy eating and physical activity in order to provide more realistic support for such behaviours.
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- Gudani Mukoma
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Paediatrics, SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Biokinetics, Recreation and Sports Science, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Paediatrics, SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Brain and Mind Institute, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Paediatrics, SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Paediatrics, SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Faculty of Medicine, School of Human Development and Health, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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Conte S, Aldien AS, Jetté S, LeBeau J, Alli S, Netchiporouk E, Lagacé F, Lefrançois P, Iannattone L, Litvinov IV. Skin Cancer Prevention across the G7, Australia and New Zealand: A Review of Legislation and Guidelines. Curr Oncol 2023; 30:6019-6040. [PMID: 37489567 PMCID: PMC10377770 DOI: 10.3390/curroncol30070450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2023] [Revised: 06/12/2023] [Accepted: 06/17/2023] [Indexed: 07/26/2023] Open
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Incidence rates of melanoma and keratinocyte skin cancers have been on the rise globally in recent decades. While there has been a select focus on personal sun protection awareness, to our knowledge, there is a paucity of legislation in place to help support citizens' efforts to protect themselves from the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation (UVR). Given this, we conducted a comprehensive review of legislation and guidelines pertaining to a variety of sun protection-related topics in countries of the Group of Seven (G7), Australia and New Zealand. Australia was the only country to have banned tanning beds for individuals of all ages, while other select countries have instituted bans for minors. In workplace policy, there is very little recognition of the danger of occupational UVR exposure in outdoor workers, and thus very few protective measures are in place. With regard to sports and recreation, certain dermatological/professional associations have put forward recommendations, but no legislation was brought forward by government bodies outside of Australia and New Zealand. With regard to youth, while there are various guidelines and frameworks in place across several countries, adherence remains difficult in the absence of concrete legislation and standardization of procedures. Finally, only Australia and a few select jurisdictions in the United States have implemented sales tax exemptions for sunscreen products. In light of our findings, we have made several recommendations, which we anticipate will help reduce the rates of melanoma and keratinocyte cancers in years to come. However, minimizing UVR exposure is not without risk, and we, therefore, suggest the promotion of vitamin D supplementation in conjunction with sun protective practices to limit potential harm.
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- Santina Conte
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3G 2M1, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3G 2M1, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3G 2M1, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3G 2M1, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada
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- Division of Dermatology, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada
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- Division of Dermatology, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada
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- Division of Dermatology, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada
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- Division of Dermatology, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada
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- Division of Dermatology, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada
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Has the pandemic resulted in a renewed and improved focus on heath inequalities in England? A discourse analysis of the framing of health inequalities in national policy ☆. PUBLIC HEALTH IN PRACTICE 2023; 5:100382. [PMID: 37131506 PMCID: PMC10077814 DOI: 10.1016/j.puhip.2023.100382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2023] [Revised: 03/29/2023] [Accepted: 04/03/2023] [Indexed: 04/08/2023] Open
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Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic rapidly exacerbated health inequalities in England. Policy makers sought to ameliorate its impact. This paper aims to identify how health inequalities were framed in national policy documents published in England during the pandemic and how this impacts the framing of policy solutions. Study design Discourse analysis of selected national policy documents. Methods First, we identified relevant national policy documents through a broad search and eligibility criteria to identify illustrative policy documents. Second, we undertook a discourse analysis to understand the framing and constitution of health inequalities and consequent solutions within them. Third, we used existing health inequalities literature to critique the findings. Results Based on analysis of six documents, we found evidence of the idea of lifestyle drift with a marked disjunction between the acknowledgement of the wider determinants of heath and the policy solutions advocated. The target population for interventions is predominantly the worst off, rather than the whole social gradient. Repeated appeals to behaviour change indicate an inherent individualist epistemology. Responsibility and accountability for health inequalities appears delegated locally without the power and resource required to deliver. Conclusion Policy solutions are unlikely to address health inequalities. This could be done though through (i) shifting interventions towards structural factors and wider determinants of health, (ii) a positive vision of a health equitable society, (iii) a proportional universalism in approach and (iv) a delegation of power and resource alongside responsibility for delivering on health inequalities. These possibilities currently remain outside of the policy language of health inequalities.
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Tekle DY, Rosewarne E, Santos JA, Trieu K, Buse K, Palu A, Thow AM, Jan S, Webster J. Do Food and Nutrition Policies in Ethiopia Support the Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases through Population-Level Salt Reduction Measures? A Policy Content Analysis. Nutrients 2023; 15:nu15071745. [PMID: 37049585 PMCID: PMC10096844 DOI: 10.3390/nu15071745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2023] [Revised: 03/24/2023] [Accepted: 03/27/2023] [Indexed: 04/05/2023] Open
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Introduction: Despite the importance of salt reduction to health outcomes, relevant policy adoption in Ethiopia has been slow, and dietary consumption of sodium remains relatively high. Aim: This analysis aims to understand the content and context of existing food-related policy, strategy, and guideline documents to identify gaps and potential opportunities for salt reduction in Ethiopia in the wider context of global evidence-informed best practice nutrition policy. Methods: Policy documents relevant to food and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), published between 2010 and December 2021, were identified through searches of government websites supplemented with experts’ advice. Documentary analysis was conducted drawing on the ‘policy cube’ which incorporates three dimensions: (i) comprehensiveness of policy measures, which for this study included the extent to which the policy addressed the food-related WHO “Best Buys” for the prevention of NCDs; (ii) policy salience and implementation potential; and (iii) equity (including gender) and human rights orientation. Results: Thirty-two policy documents were retrieved from government ministries, of which 18 were deemed eligible for inclusion. A quarter of these documents address diet-related “Best Buys” through the promotion of healthy nutrition and decreasing consumption of excess sodium, sugar, saturated fat, and trans-fats. The remainder focuses on maternal and child health and micronutrient deficiencies. All documents lack detail relating to budget, monitoring and evaluation, equity, and rights. Conclusions: This review demonstrates that the Government of Ethiopia has established policy frameworks highlighting its intention to address NCDs, but that there is an opportunity to strengthen these frameworks to improve the implementation of salt reduction programs. This includes a more holistic approach, enhanced clarification of implementation responsibilities, stipulation of budgetary allocations, and promoting a greater focus on inequities in exposure to nutrition interventions across population groups. While the analysis has identified gaps in the policy frameworks, further qualitative research is needed to understand why these gaps exist and to identify ways to fill these gaps.
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- Dejen Yemane Tekle
- The George Institute for Global Health, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2042, Australia
- School of Public Health, Mekelle University, Mekelle 1871, Ethiopia
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- The George Institute for Global Health, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2042, Australia
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- The George Institute for Global Health, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2042, Australia
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- The George Institute for Global Health, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2042, Australia
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- The George Institute for Global Health, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2042, Australia
- The George Institute for Global Health, Imperial College London, London NW9 7PA, UK
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- The George Institute for Global Health, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2042, Australia
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- Menzies Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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- The George Institute for Global Health, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2042, Australia
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- The George Institute for Global Health, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2042, Australia
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Schwab SM, Andrade V, Santos Moreira T, Cavanaugh JT, Vaz DV, Silva PL. Narrowing the physiotherapy knowledge-practice gap: faculty training beyond the health sciences. Physiother Theory Pract 2023; 39:675-689. [PMID: 35068343 DOI: 10.1080/09593985.2022.2027585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Physiotherapists seek to improve client movement and promote function within an individual's unique environmental and social realities. Despite this intention, there is a well-noted knowledge-practice gap, that is, therapists generally lack sufficient foundational preparation to effectively navigate societal challenges impacting contemporary healthcare. As one step toward addressing the issue, we propose an educational solution targeting current and future physiotherapy faculty, whose responsibilities for entry-level course development and curriculum design substantially impact student readiness for clinical practice. We propose that physiotherapy faculty trained via postprofessional education in a non-biomedical field (e.g. psychology, education, and philosophy) will be uniquely prepared to provide students with tools for dealing with complex social issues facing their clients; critical analysis skills; statistical and technological training; and a deeper theoretical and philosophical understanding of practice. Taken together, such interdisciplinary tools could help address the knowledge-practice gap for physiotherapists and promote the ongoing evolution of the profession in concert with contemporary healthcare. Physiotherapists who pursue interdisciplinary studies may more deeply understand the challenges faced by clinicians and may be well-positioned to leverage knowledge and methods in another scientific discipline to expand and transform the scope of solutions to these challenges.
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- Sarah M Schwab
- Center for Cognition, Action, and Perception, Department of Psychology, Edwards Center 1, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Center for Cognition, Action, and Perception, Department of Psychology, Edwards Center 1, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Center for Cognition, Action, and Perception, Department of Psychology, Edwards Center 1, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Physical Therapy, University of New England, Portland, ME, USA
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- Department of Physical Therapy, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Center for Cognition, Action, and Perception, Department of Psychology, Edwards Center 1, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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Zvolensky MJ, Shepherd JM, Clausen BK, Kauffman BY, Heggeness L, Garey L. Anxiety Sensitivity Among Non-Hispanic Black Adults: Relations to Mental Health and Psychosomatic States. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities 2023; 10:751-760. [PMID: 35182371 PMCID: PMC10062188 DOI: 10.1007/s40615-022-01263-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2021] [Revised: 02/04/2022] [Accepted: 02/09/2022] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The non-Hispanic Black adult population has notable disparities in mental and physical health compared to several other racial/ethnic groups. Yet, there is a lack of scientific knowledge about psychologically based individual difference factors that may be associated with an exacerbation of common mental and physical health symptoms among non-Hispanic Black persons. The present investigation sought to build on the limited knowledge about anxiety sensitivity among non-Hispanic Black adults by exploring whether this construct was uniquely associated with a range of prevalent mental health and psychosomatic symptoms commonly tied to disparities among this population. Participants included non-Hispanic Black adults (N = 205; Mage = 21.67 years; SDage = 5.39; age range: 18-60 years; 82.0% female). Results indicated that anxiety sensitivity was positively related to anxious arousal, general depression, insomnia, fatigue severity, and somatic symptom severity; effects were evident above and beyond the variance explained by a range of covariates, including age, sex, education, subjective social status, and neuroticism. Overall, the present findings uniquely build from past research on anxiety sensitivity and non-Hispanic Black adults by demonstrating that individual differences in this construct are consistently and relatively robustly associated with a wide range of mental health and psychosomatic symptoms. Future research that builds from this work may benefit from consideration of intervention programming targeting anxiety sensitivity reduction to offset mental and physical health impairments among the non-Hispanic Black population.
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- Michael J Zvolensky
- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 3695 Cullen Blvd., Room 126, Houston, TX, 77204, USA.
- Department of Behavioral Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
- HEALTH Institute, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 3695 Cullen Blvd., Room 126, Houston, TX, 77204, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 3695 Cullen Blvd., Room 126, Houston, TX, 77204, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 3695 Cullen Blvd., Room 126, Houston, TX, 77204, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 3695 Cullen Blvd., Room 126, Houston, TX, 77204, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 3695 Cullen Blvd., Room 126, Houston, TX, 77204, USA
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Esmonde K. Exercising Caution: A Case for Ethics Analysis in Physical Activity Promotion. Public Health Ethics 2023. [DOI: 10.1093/phe/phad004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/28/2023] Open
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AbstractDespite the important role of physical activity in population health and well-being, it has received less focus in public health ethics as compared to other modifiable lifestyle factors such as smoking and diet. However, when considering the current and potential role of physical activity within public health—including interventions and policies to encourage physical activity in schools and workplaces, changes to the built environment and the equity issues associated with access to physical activity—it is a ripe territory for ethical analysis. This paper makes a case for a more sustained focus on physical activity within public health ethics by reviewing two ethical issues within physical activity and public health: physical activity inequity as a structural injustice issue, and stigma in physical activity promotion. While the benefits of physical activity for every age group and demographic are numerous, ethics oversight is encouraged to ensure that these efforts do not impose unnecessary risks or stigmatize marginalized populations.
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Karran EL, Grant AR, Lee H, Kamper SJ, Williams CM, Wiles LK, Shala R, Poddar CV, Astill T, Moseley GL. Do health education initiatives assist socioeconomically disadvantaged populations? A systematic review and meta-analyses. BMC Public Health 2023; 23:453. [PMID: 36890466 PMCID: PMC9996883 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-15329-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2022] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 03/10/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Health education interventions are considered critical for the prevention and management of conditions of public health concern. Although the burden of these conditions is often greatest in socio-economically disadvantaged populations, the effectiveness of interventions that target these groups is unknown. We aimed to identify and synthesize evidence of the effectiveness of health-related educational interventions in adult disadvantaged populations. METHODS We pre-registered the study on Open Science Framework https://osf.io/ek5yg/ . We searched Medline, Embase, Emcare, and the Cochrane Register from inception to 5/04/2022 to identify studies evaluating the effectiveness of health-related educational interventions delivered to adults in socio-economically disadvantaged populations. Our primary outcome was health related behaviour and our secondary outcome was a relevant biomarker. Two reviewers screened studies, extracted data and evaluated risk of bias. Our synthesis strategy involved random-effects meta-analyses and vote-counting. RESULTS We identified 8618 unique records, 96 met our criteria for inclusion - involving more than 57,000 participants from 22 countries. All studies had high or unclear risk of bias. For our primary outcome of behaviour, meta-analyses found a standardised mean effect of education on physical activity of 0.05 (95% confidence interval (CI) = -0.09-0.19), (5 studies, n = 1330) and on cancer screening of 0.29 (95% CI = 0.05-0.52), (5 studies, n = 2388). Considerable statistical heterogeneity was present. Sixty-seven of 81 studies with behavioural outcomes had point estimates favouring the intervention (83% (95% CI = 73%-90%), p < 0.001); 21 of 28 studies with biomarker outcomes showed benefit (75% (95%CI = 56%-88%), p = 0.002). When effectiveness was determined based on conclusions in the included studies, 47% of interventions were effective on behavioural outcomes, and 27% on biomarkers. CONCLUSIONS Evidence does not demonstrate consistent, positive impacts of educational interventions on health behaviours or biomarkers in socio-economically disadvantaged populations. Continued investment in targeted approaches, coinciding with development of greater understanding of factors determining successful implementation and evaluation, are important to reduce inequalities in health.
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- E L Karran
- IIMPACT in Health, University of South Australia, GPO Box 2471, Adelaide, South Australia, 5001, Australia.
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- IIMPACT in Health, University of South Australia, GPO Box 2471, Adelaide, South Australia, 5001, Australia
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- Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal, Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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- School of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.,Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District, Penrith, NSW, Australia
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- University of Newcastle, Sydney, NSW, Australia.,Population Health, Hunter New England Local Health District, New Lambton, NSW, Australia
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- IIMPACT in Health, University of South Australia, GPO Box 2471, Adelaide, South Australia, 5001, Australia.,Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.,South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- IIMPACT in Health, University of South Australia, GPO Box 2471, Adelaide, South Australia, 5001, Australia.,Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Prishtina, Prishtina, Kosovo
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- Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai, India
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- Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- IIMPACT in Health, University of South Australia, GPO Box 2471, Adelaide, South Australia, 5001, Australia
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Baugh Littlejohns L, Near E, McKee G, Rasali D, Naiman D, Faulkner G. A scoping review of complex systems methods used in population physical activity research: do they align with attributes of a whole system approach? Health Res Policy Syst 2023; 21:18. [PMID: 36864409 PMCID: PMC9979563 DOI: 10.1186/s12961-023-00961-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2022] [Accepted: 02/11/2023] [Indexed: 03/04/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Complex systems approaches are increasingly used in health promotion and noncommunicable disease prevention research, policy and practice. Questions emerge as to the best ways to take a complex systems approach, specifically with respect to population physical activity (PA). Using an Attributes Model is one way to understand complex systems. We aimed to examine the types of complex systems methods used in current PA research and identify what methods align with a whole system approach as reflected by an Attributes Model. METHODS A scoping review was conducted and two databases were searched. Twenty-five articles were selected and data analysis was based upon the following: the complex systems research methods used, research aims, if participatory methods were used and evidence of discussion regarding attributes of systems. RESULTS There were three groups of methods used: system mapping, simulation modelling and network analysis. System mapping methods appeared to align best with a whole system approach to PA promotion because they largely aimed to understand complex systems, examined interactions and feedback among variables, and used participatory methods. Most of these articles focused on PA (as opposed to integrated studies). Simulation modelling methods were largely focused on examining complex problems and identifying interventions. These methods did not generally focus on PA or use participatory methods. While network analysis articles focused on examining complex systems and identifying interventions, they did not focus on PA nor use participatory methods. All attributes were discussed in some way in the articles. Attributes were explicitly reported on in terms of findings or were part of discussion and conclusion sections. System mapping methods appear to be well aligned with a whole system approach because these methods addressed all attributes in some way. We did not find this pattern with other methods. CONCLUSIONS Future research using complex systems methods may benefit from applying the Attributes Model in conjunction with system mapping methods. Simulation modelling and network analysis methods are seen as complementary and could be used when system mapping methods identify priorities for further investigation (e.g. what interventions to implement or how densely connected relationships are in systems).
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- Lori Baugh Littlejohns
- BC Centre for Disease Control, 655 W 12th Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4R4, Canada. .,School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, 210-6081 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada.
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- grid.34429.380000 0004 1936 8198Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph, Stewart Building, Building #45, Rm 2509, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1 Canada
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- grid.418246.d0000 0001 0352 641XBC Centre for Disease Control, 655 W 12th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4R4 Canada ,grid.17091.3e0000 0001 2288 9830School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, 2206 E Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3 Canada
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- grid.418246.d0000 0001 0352 641XBC Centre for Disease Control, 655 W 12th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4R4 Canada ,grid.17091.3e0000 0001 2288 9830School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, 2206 E Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3 Canada
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- grid.453059.e0000000107220098BC Ministry of Health, Stn Prov Govt, PO Box 9646, Victoria, BC V8W 9P1 Canada
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- grid.17091.3e0000 0001 2288 9830School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, 210-6081 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 Canada
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Brivio F, Viganò A, Paterna A, Palena N, Greco A. Narrative Review and Analysis of the Use of "Lifestyle" in Health Psychology. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2023; 20:4427. [PMID: 36901437 PMCID: PMC10001804 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20054427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2023] [Revised: 02/27/2023] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Lifestyle is a complex and often generic concept that has been used and defined in different ways in scientific research. Currently, there is no single definition of lifestyle, and various fields of knowledge have developed theories and research variables that are also distant from each other. This paper is a narrative review of the literature and an analysis of the concept of lifestyle and its relationship to health. This contribution aims to shed light on the lifestyle construct in health psychology. In particular, the first part of this manuscript reexamines the main definitions of lifestyle in the psychological and sociological fields through three perspectives: internal, external, and temporal. The main components that characterise lifestyle are highlighted. The second part of this paper explores the main concepts of lifestyle in health, underlining their strengths and weaknesses, and proposes an alternative definition of a healthy lifestyle, which integrates the individual dimensions with the social and cycle dimensions of life. In conclusion, a brief indication of a research agenda is presented.
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Ojonuba HS, Abdul Rahman H, Zaremohzzabieh Z, Mohd Zulkefli NA. The Effectiveness of an Empowerment Education Intervention for Substance Use Reduction among Inner-City Adolescents in Nigeria. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2023; 20:3731. [PMID: 36834427 PMCID: PMC9963347 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20043731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2022] [Revised: 02/12/2023] [Accepted: 02/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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(1) Background: Substance use among inner-city adolescents is at an alarming rate in Nigeria. Despite their high exposure to this risk, limited experimental tests have been conducted on prevention programs. (2) Methods: This study investigates the effectiveness of an empowerment education intervention in reducing the risk of substance use in Abuja's inner-city adolescents. Random selection placed adolescents into intervention and control conditions, and assessment was conducted at baseline, post-test, and 3-months follow-up intervention. After pre-test, the intervention group engaged in an empowerment education intervention of 11 sessions. (3) Results: In a post-test of three months, results show significant and positive changes among adolescents in substance use, including a notable reduction in positive attitudes toward drugs. In other words, the results showed adolescents reported less depression and substance use as well as higher peer support, parental support, social competence, and self-esteem at post-test and 3-month follow-ups as compared to the pre-intervention period. In addition, at both post-test and the 3-month follow-up, the intervention group performed better than the control group on peer support, parental support, social competence, and self-esteem. (4) Conclusions: This study presents a new indication that the empowerment education intervention effectively reduces substance use among Nigeria's inner-city adolescents.
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- Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia
- Institute for Social Science Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia
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- Institute for Social Science Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia
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Smith C, Bhattacharya D, Scott S. Understanding how primary care practitioners can be supported to recognise, screen and initially diagnose oropharyngeal dysphagia: protocol for a behavioural science realist review. BMJ Open 2023; 13:e065121. [PMID: 36806074 PMCID: PMC9944651 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD) affects around 15% of older people; however, it is often unrecognised and underdiagnosed until patients are hospitalised. Screening is an important process which aims to facilitate proactive assessment, diagnosis and management of health conditions. Healthcare systems do not routinely screen for OD in older people, and healthcare professionals (HCPs) are largely unaware of the need to screen. This realist review aims to identify relevant literature and develop programme theories to understand what works, for whom, under what circumstances and how, to facilitate primary care HCPs to recognise, screen and initially diagnose OD. METHODS AND ANALYSIS We will follow five steps for undertaking a realist review: (1) clarify the scope, (2) literature search, (3) appraise and extract data, (4) evidence synthesis and (5) evaluation. Initial programme theories (IPTs) will be constructed after the preliminary literature search, informed by the Theoretical Domains Framework and with input from a stakeholder group. We will search Medline, Google Scholar, PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, AMED, Scopus and PsycINFO databases. We will obtain additional evidence through grey literature, snowball sampling, lateral searching and consulting the stakeholder group. Literature will be screened, evaluated and synthesised in Covidence. Evidence will be assessed for quality by evaluating its relevance and rigour. Data will be extracted and synthesised according to their relation to IPTs. We will follow the Realist and Meta-narrative Evidence Syntheses: Evolving Standards quality and publication standards to report study results. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION Formal ethical approval is not required for this review. We will disseminate this research through publication in a peer-reviewed journal, written pieces targeted to diverse groups of HCPs on selected online platforms and public engagement events. PROSPERO REGISTRATION NUMBER CRD42022320327.
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- Caroline Smith
- School of Healthcare, University of Leicester, College of Life Sciences, Leicester, Leicestershire, UK
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- School of Healthcare, University of Leicester, College of Life Sciences, Leicester, Leicestershire, UK
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- School of Healthcare, University of Leicester, College of Life Sciences, Leicester, Leicestershire, UK
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Barry E, Greenhalgh T, Shaw S, Papoutsi C. Explaining the UK's 'high-risk' approach to type 2 diabetes prevention: findings from a qualitative interview study with policy-makers in England. BMJ Open 2023; 13:e066301. [PMID: 36750284 PMCID: PMC9906176 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVES When seeking to prevent type 2 diabetes, a balance must be struck between individual approaches (focusing on people's behaviour 'choices') and population approaches (focusing on the environment in which those choices are made) to address the socioeconomic complexity of diabetes development. We sought to explore how this balance is negotiated in the accounts of policy-makers developing and enacting diabetes prevention policy. METHODS Twelve semistructured interviews were undertaken with nine UK policy-makers between 2018-2021. We explored their perspectives on disease prevention strategies and what influenced policy decision-making. Interviews were transcribed and analysed thematically using NVIVO. We used Shiffman's political priority framework to theorise why some diabetes prevention policy approaches gather political support while others do not. RESULTS The distribution of power and funding among relevant actors, and the way they exerted their power determined the dominant approach in diabetes prevention policy. As a result of this distribution, policy-makers framed their accounts of diabetes prevention policies in terms of individual behaviour change, monitoring personal quantitative markers but with limited ability to effect population-level approaches. Such an approach aligns with the current prevailing neoliberal political context, which focuses on individual lifestyle choices to prevent disease rather than on infrastructure measures to improve the environments and contexts within which those choices are made. CONCLUSION Within new local and national policy structures, there is an opportunity for collaborative working among the National Health Service, local governments and public health teams to balance the focus on disease prevention, addressing upstream drivers of ill health as well as targeting individuals with the highest risk of diabetes.
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- Eleanor Barry
- Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Lee HE, Kim YG, Jeong JY, Kim DH. Data resource profile: the Korean Community Health Status Indicators (K-CHSI) database. Epidemiol Health 2023; 45:e2023016. [PMID: 36758962 PMCID: PMC10581888 DOI: 10.4178/epih.e2023016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2022] [Accepted: 01/05/2023] [Indexed: 02/11/2023] Open
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Korean Community Health Status Indicators (K-CHSI) is a model-based database containing annual data on health outcomes and determinants at the municipal level (si/gun/gu-level regions, including mid-sized cities, counties, and districts). K-CHSI's health outcomes include overall mortality, disease incidence, prevalence rates, and self-reported health. Health determinants were measured in 5 domains: socio-demographic factors, health behaviors, social environment, physical environment, and the healthcare system. The data sources are 71 public databases, including Causes of Death Statistics, Cancer Registration Statistics, Community Health Survey, Population Census, and Census on Establishments and Statistics of Urban Plans. This dataset covers Korea's 17 metropolitan cities and provinces, with data from approximately 250 municipal regions (si/gun/gu). The current version of the database (DB version 1.3) was built using 12 years of data from 2008 to 2019. All data included in K-CHSI may be downloaded via the Korea Community Health Survey site, with no login requirement (https://chs.kdca.go.kr/chs/recsRoom/dataBaseMain.do). K-CHSI covers extensive health outcomes and health determinants at the municipal level over a period of more than 10 years, which enables ecological and time-series analyses of the relationships among various health outcomes and related factors.
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- Hye-Eun Lee
- Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, Korea
- Institute of Social Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, Korea
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- Institute of Social Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, Korea
- Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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- Hallym Research Institute of Clinical Epidemiology, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, Korea
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- Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, Korea
- Institute of Social Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, Korea
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Robinson M, Smith JA. The lazy language of 'lifestyles'. Health Promot J Austr 2023; 34:3-5. [PMID: 36424767 DOI: 10.1002/hpja.677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2022] [Accepted: 11/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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- Mark Robinson
- Institute for Social Science Research, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.,Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
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- Rural and Remote Health, College of Medicine & Public Health, Flinders University, Darwin, Australia
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TOMKO C, MUSCI RJ, KAUFMAN MR, UNDERWOOD CR, DECKER MR, SHERMAN SG. Mental health and HIV risk differs by co-occurring structural vulnerabilities among women who sell sex. AIDS Care 2023; 35:205-214. [PMID: 36102030 PMCID: PMC10011022 DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2022.2121374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2021] [Accepted: 08/25/2022] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Female sex workers (FSW) experience many structural vulnerabilities (SV; e.g., violence, economic insecurity) which contribute to increased risk of HIV and mental distress. However, little research has examined how SV co-occur to shape HIV risk, and none have studied mental distress. Among FSW (n = 385) in Baltimore, Maryland, latent class analysis of five binary indicators (housing insecurity; financial dependence on others; client-perpetrated physical or sexual violence; food insecurity) determined classes of SV and differential HIV risk behavior and mental health outcomes. A 3-class model fit the data best: minimal SV (i.e., low probabilities of all indicators); material needs (i.e., housing, food insecurity); and high SV (i.e., high probability of all indicators). Compared to minimal SV, high SV and material needs had significantly greater adjusted probability of drug injection and poorer adjusted depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and mental distress scores. The high SV class had significantly higher probability of reporting condomless sex with clients compared to material needs and minimal SV. Results show the deleterious effect of co-occurring SV on HIV risk behaviors among FSW with particular emphasis on co-occurring food and housing insecurities. This is the first study of co-occurring SV on mental health outcomes in this key population.
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- Catherine TOMKO
- Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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O'Hara L, Taylor J. QATCHEPP: A quality assessment tool for critical health promotion practice. Front Public Health 2023; 11:1121932. [PMID: 37026119 PMCID: PMC10070830 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1121932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 03/01/2023] [Indexed: 04/08/2023] Open
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Background The origins of health promotion are based in critical practice; however, health promotion practice is still dominated by selective biomedical and behavioral approaches, which are insufficient to reduce health inequities resulting from the inequitable distribution of structural and systemic privilege and power. The Red Lotus Critical Health Promotion Model (RLCHPM), developed to enhance critical practice, includes values and principles that practitioners can use to critically reflect on health promotion practice. Existing quality assessment tools focus primarily on technical aspects of practice rather than the underpinning values and principles. The aim of this project was to develop a quality assessment tool to support critical reflection using the values and principles of critical health promotion. The purpose of the tool is to support the reorientation of health promotion practice toward a more critical approach. Research design We used Critical Systems Heuristics as the theoretical framework to develop the quality assessment tool. First, we refined the values and principles in the RLCHPM, then created critical reflective questions, refined the response categories, and added a scoring system. Results The Quality Assessment Tool for Critical Health Promotion Practice (QATCHEPP) includes 10 values and associated principles. Each value is a critical health promotion concept, and its associated principle provides a description of how the value is enacted in professional practice. QATCHEPP includes a set of three reflective questions for each value and associated principle. For each question, users score the practice as strongly, somewhat, or minimally/not at all reflective of critical health promotion practice. A percentage summary score is generated with 85% or above indicative of strongly critical practice, 50% ≤ 84% is somewhat critical practice, and < 50% minimally or does not reflect critical practice. Conclusion QATCHEPP provides theory-based heuristic support for practitioners to use critical reflection to assess the extent to which practice aligns with critical health promotion. QATCHEPP can be used as part of the Red Lotus Critical Promotion Model or as an independent quality assessment tool to support the orientation of health promotion toward critical practice. This is essential to ensure that health promotion practice contributes to enhancing health equity.
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- Lily O'Hara
- Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
- *Correspondence: Lily O'Hara
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- School of Health, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, QLD, Australia
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Presset B, Ohl F. The social grounds of self-tracking in insurance: A mixed-method approach to adoption and use. Digit Health 2023; 9:20552076231180731. [PMID: 37325069 PMCID: PMC10262662 DOI: 10.1177/20552076231180731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2022] [Accepted: 05/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023] Open
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Scholars have explored the role of self-tracking in mediating people's values, perceptions, and practices. But little is known about its institutionalised forms, although it is becoming a routine component of health policies and insurance programs. Furthermore, the role of structural elements such as sociodemographic variables, socialisations, and trajectories has been neglected. Using both quantitative (n = 818) and qualitative (n = 44) data gathered from users and non-users of an insurance program's self-tracking intervention, and drawing from Bourdieu's theoretical framework, we highlight the impact of users' social background on the adoption and use of the technology. We show that older, poorer, and less educated individual are less likely to adopt the technology, and describe four prototypical categories of users, the meritocrats, the litigants, the scrutinisers and the good-intentioned. Each category displays different reasons and ways to use the technology that are grounded in users' socialisations and life trajectories. Results suggest that too much emphasis may have been put on self-tracking's transformative powers and not enough on its reproductive inertia, with important consequences for both scholars, designers, and public health stakeholders.
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- Bastien Presset
- Institute of Sport Sciences, Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department of Technology and Society Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Sport Sciences, Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Kong Y, Shaver LG, Shi F, Mu H, Bu W, Etchegary H, Aubrey-Bassler K, Asghari S, Yi Y, Wang PP. The Effects of Cancer Beliefs and Sociodemographic Factors on Colorectal Cancer Screening Behaviours in Newfoundland and Labrador. Healthcare (Basel) 2022; 10:healthcare10122574. [PMID: 36554096 PMCID: PMC9778754 DOI: 10.3390/healthcare10122574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2022] [Revised: 11/25/2022] [Accepted: 12/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Objectives: This study investigated the beliefs about cancer treatment, outcomes, and screening among adults aged 50−74 in Newfoundland and Labrador and whether these beliefs or sociodemographic factors were associated with differences in colorectal cancer (CRC) screening behaviours. Methods: This analysis uses data collected from an online survey of adults on cancer awareness and prevention in NL. Chi-square tests were used to assess differences in distributions of beliefs based on CRC screening behaviour. Logistic regression was used to identify sociodemographic factors independently associated with CRC screening behaviour. Results: A total of 724 participants were included in the analysis, 57.4% of which had ever had CRC screening. Most held positive beliefs about cancer outcomes and treatment. Only beliefs about screening affected CRC screening behaviour. People who never had CRC screening were more likely to believe their worries about what might be found would prevent them from screening (χ2 = 9.380, p = 0.009); screening is only necessary if they have symptoms (χ2 = 15.680, p < 0.001); and screening has a high risk of leading to unnecessary surgery (χ2 = 6.824, p = 0.032). Regression identified that men had higher likelihood of having had CRC screening than women in our study (OR = 1.689, 95%CI = 1.135−2.515), as did all age groups compared to ages 50−54. No associations were found with the other sociodemographic factors studied. Conclusion: Beliefs about cancer screening appear to play some role in CRC screening behaviour, but the absolute effect was small. The relatively few sociodemographic associations with screening behaviour suggest that NL’s CRC screening program is equitably reaching people from different socioeconomic backgrounds.
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- Yujia Kong
- School of Public Health, Weifang Medical University, Weifang 261053, China
- Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL 1AB 3V6, Canada
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- Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL 1AB 3V6, Canada
- Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- School of Public Health, Weifang Medical University, Weifang 261053, China
- Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL 1AB 3V6, Canada
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- School of Public Health, Weifang Medical University, Weifang 261053, China
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- School of Public Health, Weifang Medical University, Weifang 261053, China
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- Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL 1AB 3V6, Canada
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- Primary Healthcare Research Unit, Discipline of Family Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, NL A1B 3V6, Canada
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- Primary Healthcare Research Unit, Discipline of Family Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, NL A1B 3V6, Canada
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- Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL 1AB 3V6, Canada
- Correspondence: (Y.Y.); (P.P.W.); Tel.: +1-(709)-864-6497 (P.P.W.); Fax: +1-(709)-864-4991 (P.P.W.)
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- School of Public Health, Weifang Medical University, Weifang 261053, China
- Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL 1AB 3V6, Canada
- Correspondence: (Y.Y.); (P.P.W.); Tel.: +1-(709)-864-6497 (P.P.W.); Fax: +1-(709)-864-4991 (P.P.W.)
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Boyd J, Wilson R, Elsenbroich C, Heppenstall A, Meier P. Agent-Based Modelling of Health Inequalities following the Complexity Turn in Public Health: A Systematic Review. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:16807. [PMID: 36554687 PMCID: PMC9779847 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192416807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2022] [Revised: 12/11/2022] [Accepted: 12/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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There is an increasing focus on the role of complexity in public health and public policy fields which has brought about a methodological shift towards computational approaches. This includes agent-based modelling (ABM), a method used to simulate individuals, their behaviour and interactions with each other, and their social and physical environment. This paper aims to systematically review the use of ABM to simulate the generation or persistence of health inequalities. PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science (1 January 2013-15 November 2022) were searched, supplemented with manual reference list searching. Twenty studies were included; fourteen of them described models of health behaviours, most commonly relating to diet (n = 7). Six models explored health outcomes, e.g., morbidity, mortality, and depression. All of the included models involved heterogeneous agents and were dynamic, with agents making decisions, growing older, and/or becoming exposed to different health risks. Eighteen models represented physical space and in eleven models, agents interacted with other agents through social networks. ABM is increasingly contributing to our understanding of the socioeconomic inequalities in health. However, to date, the majority of these models focus on the differences in health behaviours. Future research should attempt to investigate the social and economic drivers of health inequalities using ABM.
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- Jennifer Boyd
- MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G3 7HR, UK
- School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4DA, UK
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- College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G61 1QH, UK
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- MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G3 7HR, UK
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- MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G3 7HR, UK
- School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8RT, UK
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- MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G3 7HR, UK
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Littleton C, Reader C. To what extent do Australian child and youth health, and education wellbeing policies, address the social determinants of health and health equity?: a policy analysis study. BMC Public Health 2022; 22:2290. [PMID: 36474224 PMCID: PMC9727952 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-14784-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2022] [Accepted: 11/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Children and youth are an important population group requiring specific policies to address their needs. In Australia, most children and youth are doing well, however, certain equity groups are not. To address child and youth health equity in policy, applying a social determinants of health approach is considered best practice. For over 10 years governments in Australia have been called upon to address the social determinants of health, however, there has been limited action. Health and education departments are typically most involved in policy development for children and youth. To date, there have been limited systematic analyses of Australian child and youth health policies, and selected education wellbeing policies, with a social determinants of health and health equity focus and this study aims to contribute to addressing this gap. METHODS Policy analysis was conducted across 26 Australian child and youth health policies, and selected education wellbeing policies. We used an existing prior coding framework to understand the extent the social determinants of health and health equity were addressed. All policies were strategic level and only included if dated 2009 onwards. RESULTS Across 26 selected policies only 10% of strategies addressed the social determinants of health, demonstrating a lack of policy action. However, there is relatively even focus on all developmental stages, and an increased focus on youth. Equity is acknowledged across most policies with some groups receiving more attention including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. The social determinants of health addressed, to some degree, include early childhood development, education, parental workplace conditions, healthy settings, and housing, those least mentioned include public transport and regulation. CONCLUSION This study demonstrates a lack of policy action on the social determinants of health within Australian child and youth health policy, and selected education wellbeing policies. Rather, the application of a siloed, and predominantly acute care approach. However, there is recognition of equity across all policies; an emphasis on housing as a determinant of health; and a link between health and education departments through education wellbeing policies, specifically addressing the issue of mental health.
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- Clare Littleton
- grid.449625.80000 0004 4654 2104Torrens University Australia, 81-88 Wakefield St, Adelaide, SA 5000 Australia
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- grid.449625.80000 0004 4654 2104Torrens University Australia, 81-88 Wakefield St, Adelaide, SA 5000 Australia
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Thayer Z, Uwizeye G, McKerracher L. Toolkit article: Approaches to measuring social inequities in health in human biology research. Am J Hum Biol 2022; 34:e23804. [PMID: 36173013 DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2021] [Revised: 08/24/2022] [Accepted: 09/02/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Across populations, human morbidity and mortality risks generally follow clear gradients, with socially-disadvantaged individuals and groups tending to have higher morbidity and mortality at all life stages relative to those more socially advantaged. Anthropologists specialize in understanding the proximate and ultimate factors that shape variation in human biological functioning and health and are therefore well-situated to explore the relationships between social position and health in diverse ecological and cultural contexts. While human biologists have developed sophisticated methods for assessing health using minimally-invasive methods, at a disciplinary level, we have room for conceptual and methodological improvement in how we frame, measure, and analyze the social inequities that might shape health inequities. This toolkit paper elaborates on some steps human biologists should take to enhance the quality of our research on health inequities. Specifically, we address: (1) how to frame unequal health outcomes (i.e., inequalities vs. disparities vs. inequities) and the importance of identifying our conceptual models of how these inequities emerge; (2) how to measure various axes of social inequities across diverse cultural contexts, and (3) approaches to community collaboration and dissemination. We end by discussing (4) future directions in human biology research of health inequities, including understanding the ultimate causes of sensitivity to social inequities and transitioning from research to action.
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- Zaneta Thayer
- Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
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- Arthur Labatt School of Nursing, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Wheat H, Barnes RK, Aveyard P, Stevenson F, Begh R. Brief opportunistic interventions by general practitioners to promote smoking cessation: A conversation analytic study. Soc Sci Med 2022; 314:115463. [PMID: 36332533 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2022] [Revised: 10/03/2022] [Accepted: 10/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Very brief opportunistic interventions for smoking cessation are effective, cost-saving for health systems, and universally recommended in guidelines. However, evidence suggests that clinicians are reluctant to intervene, citing interactional difficulties. Only one UK study has specifically examined smoking discussions, within naturally occurring primary care consultations. However smoking cessation treatment was not available at the time. We examined existing datasets amounting to 519 video-recordings of GP consultations in England for instances of talk about smoking. We used conversation analytic methods to assess patients' responses to doctors asking about smoking, giving advice on smoking, and offering cessation treatment. In 31 recordings it was apparent that the patient smoked, and, in 25/31 consultations, doctors initiated the topic of smoking. They did so by asking about smoking status, commonly during the history-taking phase of the consultation. In many instances, these questions led to active resistance from patients against being placed in a discreditable category, for example by minimising their smoking. This was more pronounced when GPs pursued efforts to quantify the amount smoked. Thereafter, where doctors returned to the topic of smoking, they did so typically by linking smoking to the patient's medical condition, which likewise led to resistance. Guidance recommends that GPs advise on how best to quit smoking where patients are interested in doing so, but this was only evident in a minority of consultations. Where GPs offered support for cessation, they did so using interactional practices that minimised the need for the patient to respond and thereby accept. Interactional difficulties were found to be common in consultations between GPs and people who smoke when GPs actions aligned with some VBA guidelines. Future research should examine when and how advice on how best to quit, and offers of support, should be delivered within primary care consultations.
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- H Wheat
- Community and Primary Care Research Group, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.
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- Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX2 6GG, UK
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- Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX2 6GG, UK
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- Primary Care and Population Health, University College London, UK
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- Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX2 6GG, UK
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Iton A, Ross RK, Tamber PS. Building Community Power To Dismantle Policy-Based Structural Inequity In Population Health. Health Aff (Millwood) 2022; 41:1763-1771. [PMID: 36469831 DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2022.00540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Population health strategies tend to focus on individuals' behaviors, genes, or health care access, yet it is well established that socioecological conditions are fundamental to health and strongly influenced by policy. In the US, health and other policies continue to be shaped by the country's unique legacy of racial and economic segregation. Policy reform must be at the center of population health. This requires communities to have power. We present theoretical and empirical research linking community power and health, and we share an example of our work in which communities organized to hold policy makers accountable for advancing health equity in the distribution of parks. We call this a democratic approach to health improvement and discuss how population health, whether part of public health, philanthropy, or health care, needs to focus on community power and include funding for power-building organizations. We conclude that achieving health equity requires enhancing the quality of democracy.
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- Anthony Iton
- Anthony Iton , California Endowment, Oakland, California; and University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California
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- Pritpal S. Tamber, Pritpal S. Tamber Consultorio Ltda., São Paulo, Brazil
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Reviving health promotion in South Australia: The role of ideas, actors and institutional forces. Health Promot Int 2022; 37:6823568. [DOI: 10.1093/heapro/daac154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Globally health promotion has remained marginalized while biomedical health systems have maintained and even increased their dominance. During 2019–2021 we drew on the local and historical knowledge of actors from multiple sectors through semi-structured interviews and focus groups, to assess the implications of the withdrawal of the state from health promotion in a suburban region of South Australia. Institutional theory enabled in-depth analysis of the ideas, actors, and institutional forces at play in the institutional field, and how these elements come together to maintain the dominance of medicine. We found that the ideas, actors and institutional forces supporting health promotion in the study region have weakened and fragmented. This has happened as biomedicine has increased its dominance in the region’s health system, mirroring international trends. The results point to a withdrawal of state and federal governments from health promotion, which has led to severe gaps in leadership and governance, and locally, to a decline in capacity and resources. The state health department reallocated resources to focus on individual behavioural change rather than more structural factors affecting health. While some activities aimed at the social determinants of health or community development strategies remained, these had minimal institutional support. The establishment of a state government wellbeing agency in 2020 prompted an exploration to determine whether the agency and the international wellbeing movement presents an opportunity for a revival of more comprehensive health promotion.
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Awareness of Prostate Cancer among the Sportsmen in the Republic of Serbia. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 2022:8400768. [PMID: 36438931 PMCID: PMC9683981 DOI: 10.1155/2022/8400768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2022] [Revised: 10/01/2022] [Accepted: 10/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Prostate cancer is the second most commonly occurring cancer in men. Regardless of statistics, screening for prostate cancer is an individual decision and most male patients come for their first examination with an already developed disease, as they are not adequately informed. The study aimed to emphasize the importance of preventive tests for urological diseases in the Republic of Serbia, raise awareness about urinary problems, and present social marketing strategies for prevention. The results confirm the generally lower awareness of respondents under the age of 30, followed by those who finished university, go to the doctor two or three times a year, and receive information other than by watching TV. Implemented research indicates the influence of the marketing principles and social marketing strategies on possible target groups of the male population over 50, which is aimed at raising awareness of the importance of prevention of urological diseases and the expected changes in the health behavior of the target population.
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Rier DA. Responsibility in Medical Sociology: A Second, Reflexive Look. THE AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST 2022; 53:663-684. [PMID: 36246580 PMCID: PMC9540162 DOI: 10.1007/s12108-022-09549-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Personal responsibility has emerged as an important element in many countries' public health planning, and has attracted substantial debate in public health discourse. Contemporary medical sociology typically resists such "responsibilization" as victim-blaming, by privileged elites, that obscures important structural factors and inequities. This paper, based primarily on a broad review of how contemporary Anglophone medical sociology literatures treat responsibility and blame, points out advantages of taking responsibility seriously, particularly from the individual's perspective. These advantages include: empowerment; responsibility-as-coping-mechanism; moral dignity; and the pragmatic logic of doing for oneself, rather than passively awaiting societal reforms. We also offer possible reasons why sociologists and their subjects view these issues so differently, and suggest some areas for future research.
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- David A. Rier
- Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University, 5290002 Ramat-Gan, Israel
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Blackford K, Taylor J, Devine S, Woodall J, Smith J. Quality learning and teaching is vital for equipping the health promotion workforce to address complex public health challenges. Health Promot J Austr 2022; 33 Suppl 1:6-8. [PMID: 36195432 DOI: 10.1002/hpja.666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2022] [Accepted: 09/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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- School of Health and Behavioural Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia
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- College of Public Health, Medical & Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townville, Australia
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- School of Health, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK
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- Rural and Remote Health, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Darwin, Australia
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Reweti A, Severinsen C. Waka ama: An exemplar of indigenous health promotion in Aotearoa New Zealand. Health Promot J Austr 2022; 33 Suppl 1:246-254. [PMID: 35714045 PMCID: PMC9796799 DOI: 10.1002/hpja.632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2022] [Revised: 06/03/2022] [Accepted: 06/08/2022] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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ISSUE ADDRESSED The use of old-style, top-down health education and awareness programmes in Aotearoa New Zealand, which adopt a single issue-based approach to health promotion, primarily ignores a broad approach to social determinants of health, as well as indigenous Māori understandings of wellbeing. METHODS This paper draws on the indigenous framework Te Pae Māhutonga as a guide for presenting narratives collated from members of a waka ama rōpū (group) who were interviewed about the social, cultural and health benefits of waka ama. RESULTS This waka ama case study is an exemplar of community-led health promotion within an indigenous context, where Māori values and practices, such as whanaungatanga (the process of forming and maintaining relationships), manaakitanga (generosity and caring for others) and kaitiakitanga (guardianship), are foundational. The findings highlight the multiple benefits of engagement in waka ama and illustrate effective techniques for enhancing wellbeing within local communities. CONCLUSION At a time when Aotearoa New Zealand is seeing a decreasing trend in physical activity levels and an increase in mental health challenges, waka ama provides us with an exemplar of ways to increase health and wellbeing within our communities. SO WHAT?: The findings of this research contribute to the evidence base of effective indigenous health promotion, bridging the gap between academia and local community action. To better recognise, comprehend and improve indigenous health and wellbeing, we argue that active participation of people in the community is required to achieve long-term and revolutionary change.
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Werder O, Holland K, Kiaos T, Ferson MJ. Between the sea and the sky: A social practice investigation into health behaviours during cruise travel. Health Promot J Austr 2022; 33 Suppl 1:367-378. [PMID: 35266596 PMCID: PMC9790200 DOI: 10.1002/hpja.593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2021] [Revised: 03/02/2022] [Accepted: 03/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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ISSUE ADDRESSED The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted organised cruise holidays as perfect incubators for microbiological infections due to the constant socialising within closed spaces. Little is known about people's health behaviours and perceptions during cruise holidays. METHODS Narrative group interviews and respondent photo diary exercises were conducted with families (n = 25) residing in different areas across metropolitan NSW, Australia. Guided by a social practice theoretical approach we undertook a thematic analysis that identifies reasons for choosing a cruise, health considerations and behaviours in relation to cruise travel and awareness of official cruise health information. RESULTS Cruise travel included a licence to abandon cautious behaviours, reinforced by confidence in the cruise organiser's risk management ability. Health concerns were not a high priority for participants and were mainly understood in terms of eating healthy, modest exercise, managing seasickness and having adequate supplies of medications. Awareness of official cruise health and risk information was largely non-existent. CONCLUSION Understanding how travel health practices emerge and are likely to be modifiable produces health-promoting awareness and intervention efforts that recognise and link with people's ideas about cruise holidays as times of fun, leisure, relaxation, without interfering with or imposing on them. SO WHAT?: This study highlights the importance of developing health communication and promotion strategies that are responsive to the interconnected meanings, competencies and materials that have a bearing on how cruise travellers understand and enact health-related behaviours in preparation for and during a cruise holiday.
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- South Eastern Sydney Local Health DistrictUNSW MedicineRandwickAustralia
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Johnson MI, Woodall J. A healthy settings approach to addressing painogenic environments: New perspectives from health promotion. FRONTIERS IN PAIN RESEARCH 2022; 3:1000170. [PMID: 36238350 PMCID: PMC9551298 DOI: 10.3389/fpain.2022.1000170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2022] [Accepted: 09/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Structural approaches to promoting health focus on policies and practices affecting health at the community level and concentrate on systems and forces of society, including distribution of power, that foster disadvantage and diminish health and well-being. In this paper we advocate consideration of structural approaches to explore macro level influences on the burden of persistent pain on society. We argue that health promotion is an appropriate discipline to ameliorate painogenic environments and that a “settings approach” offers a crucial vehicle to do this. We encourage consideration of socio-ecological frameworks to explore factors affecting human development at individual, interpersonal, organizational, societal, and environmental levels because persistent pain is multifaceted and complex and unlikely to be understood from a single level of analysis. We acknowledge criticisms that the structural approach may appear unachievable due to its heavy reliance on inter-sectoral collaboration. We argue that a settings approach may offer solutions because it straddles “practical” and cross-sectorial forces impacting on the health of people. A healthy settings approach invests in social systems where health is not the primary remit and utilises synergistic action between settings to promote greater health gains. We offer the example of obesogenic environments being a useful concept to develop strategies to tackle childhood obesity in school-settings, community-settings, shops, and sports clubs; and that this settings approach has been more effective than one organisation tackling the issue in isolation. We argue that a settings approach should prove useful for understanding painogenic environments and tackling the burden of persistent pain.
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- Mark I. Johnson
- Centre for Pain Research, School of Health, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom
- Correspondence: Mark I. Johnson
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- Centre for Health Promotion Research, School of Health, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Mackean T, Shakespeare M, Fisher M. Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Theories of Wellbeing and Their Suitability for Wellbeing Policy. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:11693. [PMID: 36141961 PMCID: PMC9517457 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191811693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2022] [Revised: 08/29/2022] [Accepted: 09/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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A growing interest among governments in policies to promote wellbeing has the potential to revive a social view of health promotion. However, success may depend on the way governments define wellbeing and conceptualize ways to promote it. We analyze theories of wellbeing to discern twelve types of wellbeing theory and assess the suitability of each type of theory as a basis for effective wellbeing policies. We used Durie's methodology of working at the interface between knowledge systems and Indigenous dialogic methods of yarning and deep listening. We analyzed selected literature on non-Indigenous theories and Indigenous theories from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States to develop a typology of wellbeing theories. We applied political science perspectives on theories of change in public policy to assess the suitability of each type of theory to inform wellbeing policies. We found that some theory types define wellbeing purely as a property of individuals, whilst others define it in terms of social or environmental conditions. Each approach has weaknesses regarding the theory of change in wellbeing policy. Indigenous relational theories transcend an 'individual or environment' dichotomy, providing for pluralistic approaches to health promotion. A broad theoretic approach to wellbeing policy, encompassing individual, social, equity-based and environmental perspectives, is recommended.
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- Tamara Mackean
- College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia
- The George Institute for Global Health, Newtown, NSW 2042, Australia
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- College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia
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- Stretton Institute, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
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Schwab SM, Spencer C, Carver NS, Andrade V, Dugan S, Greve K, Silva PL. Personal factors understood through the Ecological-Enactive Model of Disability and implications for rehabilitation research. FRONTIERS IN REHABILITATION SCIENCES 2022; 3:954061. [DOI: 10.3389/fresc.2022.954061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2022] [Accepted: 07/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) recognizes that disability arises from the interaction between an individual with a medical condition and the context in which they are embedded. Context in the ICF is comprised of environmental and personal factors. Personal factors, the background life and lifestyle of an individual, are poorly understood in rehabilitation. There is limited knowledge about how personal and environmental factors interact to shape the contextual conditions critical for explaining functioning and disability. In this paper, we explore how a newly proposed model of disability, the Ecological-Enactive Model of Disability, can enhance understanding of personal factors across multiple rehabilitation disciplines. We draw from a review of evidence and phenomenological interviews of individuals with Friedreich's Ataxia. We consider the practical impact of this understanding on disability and rehabilitation research and pathways for the future focusing on representative design.
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Homer C, Woodall J, Freeman C, South J, Cooke J, Holliday J, Hartley A, Mullen S. Changing the culture: a qualitative study exploring research capacity in local government. BMC Public Health 2022; 22:1341. [PMID: 35836209 PMCID: PMC9281003 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-13758-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2022] [Accepted: 07/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Background Local government has become a key constituent for addressing health inequalities and influencing the health of individuals and communities in England. Lauded as an effective approach to tackle the multiple determinants of health, there are concerns that generating and utilising research evidence to inform decision-making and action is a challenge. This research was conducted in a local authority situated in the north of England and addressed the research question – ‘What is the capacity to collaborate and deliver research?’. The study explored the assets that exist to foster a stronger research culture, identified barriers and opportunities for developing research capacity, and how a sustainable research system could be developed to impact on local residents’ health and reduce health inequalities. Methods This was a qualitative study utilising semi-structured interviews and focus groups. The study used an embedded researcher (ER) who was digitally embedded within the local authority for four months to conduct the data collection. Senior Managers were purposively sampled from across the local authority to take part in interviews. Three focus groups included representation from across the local authority. Framework analysis was conducted to develop the themes which were informed by the Research Capacity Development framework. Results Tensions between research led decision making and the political and cultural context of local government were identified as a barrier to developing research which addressed health inequalities. Research was not prioritised through an organisational strategy and was led sporadically by research active employees. A recognition across leaders that a culture shift to an organisation which used research evidence to develop policy and commission services was needed. Building relationships and infrastructure across local government, place-based collaborators and academic institutions was required. The embedded researcher approach is one method of developing these relationships. The study identifies the strengths and assets that are embedded in the organisational make-up and the potential areas for development. Conclusion Research leadership is required in local government to create a culture of evidence-based principles and policy. The embedded research model has high utility in gaining depth of information and recognising contextual and local factors which would support research capacity development.
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- Catherine Homer
- Sport and Physical Activity Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, Olympic Legacy Park, 2 Old Hall Road, Sheffield, S9 3TU, UK.
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- School of Health, Leeds Beckett University, Portland Building, Leeds, LS1 3HE, UK
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- School of Health, Leeds Beckett University, Portland Building, Leeds, LS1 3HE, UK
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- School of Health, Leeds Beckett University, Portland Building, Leeds, LS1 3HE, UK
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- Health Sciences School, Division of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sheffield, Barber House Annex, 3a Clarkehouse Road, Sheffield, S10, UK
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- Research Department, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Pinderfields Hospital, Aberford Road, Wakefield, WF1 4DG, UK
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- Wakefield Council, Wakefield One, Burton Street, Wakefield, WF1 2EB, UK
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- Wakefield Council, Wakefield One, Burton Street, Wakefield, WF1 2EB, UK
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Wilderink L, Bakker I, Schuit AJ, Seidell JC, Pop IA, Renders CM. A Theoretical Perspective on Why Socioeconomic Health Inequalities Are Persistent: Building the Case for an Effective Approach. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:8384. [PMID: 35886234 PMCID: PMC9317352 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19148384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2022] [Revised: 06/24/2022] [Accepted: 06/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/10/2022]
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Despite policy intentions and many interventions aimed at reducing socioeconomic health inequalities in recent decades in the Netherlands and other affluent countries, these inequalities have not been reduced. Based on a narrative literature review, this paper aims to increase insight into why socioeconomic health inequalities are so persistent and build a way forward for improved approaches from a theoretical perspective. Firstly, we present relevant theories focusing on individual determinants of health-related behaviors. Thereafter, we present theories that take into account determinants of the individual level and the environmental level. Lastly, we show the complexity of the system of individual determinants, environmental determinants and behavior change for low socioeconomic position (SEP) groups and describe the next steps in developing and evaluating future effective approaches. These steps include systems thinking, a complex whole-system approach and participation of all stakeholders in system change.
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- Lisa Wilderink
- Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands; (J.C.S.); (C.M.R.)
- Department of Healthy Society, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, 8017 CA Zwolle, The Netherlands;
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- Department of Healthy Society, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, 8017 CA Zwolle, The Netherlands;
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- School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, 5037 AB Tilburg, The Netherlands; (A.J.S.); (I.A.P.)
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- Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands; (J.C.S.); (C.M.R.)
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- School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, 5037 AB Tilburg, The Netherlands; (A.J.S.); (I.A.P.)
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- Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands; (J.C.S.); (C.M.R.)
- Department of Healthy Society, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, 8017 CA Zwolle, The Netherlands;
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