... y)].
Discussion
Main findings
Among the participating GPs, definitions of health promo-
tion interventions in the elderly widely varied. The opinion
regarding the effectiveness of health promotion in the ... patients to accept health promotion in
the elderly
Misunderstanding health promotion as discrimination (n = 11)
Giving the patients vouchers for health promotion (...
... available in French)
Working paper 3 Improving Health System Financing in Low-Income Countries
(forthcoming)
Working paper 4 Opportunities for Global Health Initiatives in the Health Systems ... the framework in countries and
sharing practical experiences and findings;
ii) Encouraging networks of leadership and management resource institutions and
individua...
...
Health Promotion for the Elderly in Peru, Bolivia
and Chile
SONIA VASQUEZ
THESIS FOR DEGREE OF MASTER IN HEALTH PROMOTION
SPRING 2005
HANDLEDARE:
PROFESSOR ... series of Master theses in Public Health
These reports come from the Board of Education in Public Health
Sciences at Karolinska Institutet.
The master education of Public...
... participation,
involving all professionals, fostering patients` rights and promoting a
healthy environment within hospitals. Thus, health promotion in
hospitals includes interventions and actions. In order ... differ in health promotion as compared to clinical
medicine (Table 4).
Table 4: Clinical trials vs. HP interventions.
Clinical Trial Health Promotion
Inter...
... securing information on them” (Miettinen and Cook,
1981).
Confounding bias is handled either by preventing it, through randomization in study
design,orbyremoving it, through regression models in ... medicine are undeniable. If nothing else had been
achieved but two things – in the nineteenth century, the end of bleeding, purging, and leech-
ing as a result of Louis’ studies (Louis,...
... of individual health- related behaviors and habits in relation to
health outcomes, taking into account the role of individual behavior in
causing and maintaining disease. Also includes health promotion ... cost and
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financing (including health insurance), and social, ethnic, language, and
geographical concerns that may help or hinder in...
... significant health disparities exist. In Canada,
Aboriginal children rank with many children in the developing world on several key indicators,
including infant mortality and injury deaths. In Mexico, ... private
payers—including making people pay more out of their own pockets in order to maintain
their existing health care system. In Mexico, direct out-of-pocket spending is a...