Joan Wharf Higgins
Biographic Data
| ID | 202183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Wharf Higgins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan Wharf |
| FAMILY NAME | Higgins |
| SIGNATURE | HIGGINS J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Layers of translation” - evidence literacy in public health practice
Public health practitioners demonstrated a good level of evidence literacy, particularly at the collective level in the organization. The EIPH framework provides helpful guidance in how to use research evidence in practice, but it lacks support on appraising and synthesizing across the various types of evidence that practitioners consider essential in their practice. We can better support practitioners by appreciating the range of evidence they u…
Food Literacy
The term food literacy is emergent, and as a result the literature reflects a great variety of definitions. Simultaneously, new research and food literacy programming is being developed without an agreed upon definition of what food literacy is and how food skills, food security, and health literacy may fit with the definition. We undertook a scoping review and conceptual analysis to identify how the term is understood and to determine shared com…
Implementation of school based physical activity interventions
Creating a collective impact on childhood obesity
Online, tuned in, turned on
The commercial media is an influential sociocultural force and transmitter of health information especially for adolescents. Instruction in critical media health literacy, a combination of concepts from critical health literacy and critical media literacy, is a potentially effective means of raising adolescents’ awareness about commercial media and its influence on their health. We first provide background on critical media health literacy for ad…
A cross-cultural comparison of body composition, physical fitness and physical activity between regional samples of Canadian and English children and adolescents
Adolescent Reading/Viewing of Advertisements
Walking Sole Mates
Dog walking is receiving increasing attention in the public health literature as a strategy to improve dog guardians' physical activity levels. Quantitative research suggests that dog guardians walk more often and for longer than non dog-guardians, and offers suggestions as to the reasons for these differences. The purpose of this study was to qualitatively explore dog guardians' walking practices and relationships with their dogs, to better unde…
A Social Ecological Conceptual Framework for Understanding Adolescent Health Literacy in the Health Education Classroom
With the rising concern over chronic health conditions and their prevention and management, health literacy is emerging as an important public health issue. As with the development of other forms of literacy, the ability for students to be able to access, understand, evaluate and communicate health information is a skill best developed during their years of public schooling. Health education curricula offer one approach to develop health literacy…
A Taste of Healthy Living
The Saanich Peninsula Diabetes Prevention Project was a participatory research project exploring the contribution of recreation programs to the prevention of type 2 diabetes among at-risk populations. Addressing active living, healthy eating, and fostering social inclusion, “A Taste of Healthy Living” was one of the initiatives emerging from the extensive community assessment phase. The purpose of this article is to describe the program's influen…
Factors Influencing Physical Activity Levels Among Canadian Youth
Challenges of citizen participation in regional health authorities
The GirlPower Project — Recreation, BC Health Goals and Social Capital
Closer to Home
Social Marketing and Martin
The purpose of this article is to discuss how the computer software program MARTIN and social marketing concepts (understanding the consumer perspective, exchange, marketing mix, and segmentation) were used as organizational, analytical, and interpretive tools for qualitative data. The qualitative data are from a case study on citizen participation in a health reform policy in British Columbia. The concept of broad-based public participation is f…
Rejoinder by Green and Higgins
LAWRENCE W. GREEN, JOAN WHARF HIGGINS; Rejoinder by Green and Higgins, Health Promotion International, Volume 10, Issue 1, 1 January 1995, Pages 75–76, htt
The Apha criteria for development of health promotion programs applied to four Healthy Community projects in British Columbia
The British Columbia Healthy Communities projects are intersectoral health promotion programs emphasizing local policy development to put the vision of the World Health Organization's and Canadian federal initiatives of Achieving Health for All into practical community action and organization. They attempt to convert the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion into practical community action projects, including operationalizing the concepts of partic…
Challenges of citizen participation in regional health authorities
Walking Sole Mates
Dog walking is receiving increasing attention in the public health literature as a strategy to improve dog guardians' physical activity levels. Quantitative research suggests that dog guardians walk more often and for longer than non dog-guardians, and offers suggestions as to the reasons for these differences. The purpose of this study was to qualitatively explore dog guardians' walking practices and relationships with their dogs, to better unde…
Factors Influencing Physical Activity Levels Among Canadian Youth
Closer to Home
Creating a collective impact on childhood obesity
A Social Ecological Conceptual Framework for Understanding Adolescent Health Literacy in the Health Education Classroom
With the rising concern over chronic health conditions and their prevention and management, health literacy is emerging as an important public health issue. As with the development of other forms of literacy, the ability for students to be able to access, understand, evaluate and communicate health information is a skill best developed during their years of public schooling. Health education curricula offer one approach to develop health literacy…
A cross-cultural comparison of body composition, physical fitness and physical activity between regional samples of Canadian and English children and adolescents
A Taste of Healthy Living
The Saanich Peninsula Diabetes Prevention Project was a participatory research project exploring the contribution of recreation programs to the prevention of type 2 diabetes among at-risk populations. Addressing active living, healthy eating, and fostering social inclusion, “A Taste of Healthy Living” was one of the initiatives emerging from the extensive community assessment phase. The purpose of this article is to describe the program's influen…
The GirlPower Project — Recreation, BC Health Goals and Social Capital
The Apha criteria for development of health promotion programs applied to four Healthy Community projects in British Columbia
The British Columbia Healthy Communities projects are intersectoral health promotion programs emphasizing local policy development to put the vision of the World Health Organization's and Canadian federal initiatives of Achieving Health for All into practical community action and organization. They attempt to convert the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion into practical community action projects, including operationalizing the concepts of partic…
Rejoinder by Green and Higgins
LAWRENCE W. GREEN, JOAN WHARF HIGGINS; Rejoinder by Green and Higgins, Health Promotion International, Volume 10, Issue 1, 1 January 1995, Pages 75–76, htt
Social Marketing and Martin
The purpose of this article is to discuss how the computer software program MARTIN and social marketing concepts (understanding the consumer perspective, exchange, marketing mix, and segmentation) were used as organizational, analytical, and interpretive tools for qualitative data. The qualitative data are from a case study on citizen participation in a health reform policy in British Columbia. The concept of broad-based public participation is f…
Closer to Home
The GirlPower Project — Recreation, BC Health Goals and Social Capital
Challenges of citizen participation in regional health authorities
Factors Influencing Physical Activity Levels Among Canadian Youth
A Taste of Healthy Living
The Saanich Peninsula Diabetes Prevention Project was a participatory research project exploring the contribution of recreation programs to the prevention of type 2 diabetes among at-risk populations. Addressing active living, healthy eating, and fostering social inclusion, “A Taste of Healthy Living” was one of the initiatives emerging from the extensive community assessment phase. The purpose of this article is to describe the program's influen…
A Social Ecological Conceptual Framework for Understanding Adolescent Health Literacy in the Health Education Classroom
With the rising concern over chronic health conditions and their prevention and management, health literacy is emerging as an important public health issue. As with the development of other forms of literacy, the ability for students to be able to access, understand, evaluate and communicate health information is a skill best developed during their years of public schooling. Health education curricula offer one approach to develop health literacy…
Adolescent Reading/Viewing of Advertisements
Walking Sole Mates
Dog walking is receiving increasing attention in the public health literature as a strategy to improve dog guardians' physical activity levels. Quantitative research suggests that dog guardians walk more often and for longer than non dog-guardians, and offers suggestions as to the reasons for these differences. The purpose of this study was to qualitatively explore dog guardians' walking practices and relationships with their dogs, to better unde…
Online, tuned in, turned on
The commercial media is an influential sociocultural force and transmitter of health information especially for adolescents. Instruction in critical media health literacy, a combination of concepts from critical health literacy and critical media literacy, is a potentially effective means of raising adolescents’ awareness about commercial media and its influence on their health. We first provide background on critical media health literacy for ad…
A cross-cultural comparison of body composition, physical fitness and physical activity between regional samples of Canadian and English children and adolescents
Food Literacy
The term food literacy is emergent, and as a result the literature reflects a great variety of definitions. Simultaneously, new research and food literacy programming is being developed without an agreed upon definition of what food literacy is and how food skills, food security, and health literacy may fit with the definition. We undertook a scoping review and conceptual analysis to identify how the term is understood and to determine shared com…
Implementation of school based physical activity interventions
Creating a collective impact on childhood obesity
Layers of translation” - evidence literacy in public health practice
Public health practitioners demonstrated a good level of evidence literacy, particularly at the collective level in the organization. The EIPH framework provides helpful guidance in how to use research evidence in practice, but it lacks support on appraising and synthesizing across the various types of evidence that practitioners consider essential in their practice. We can better support practitioners by appreciating the range of evidence they u…
Medicine (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Health care (7 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Public health (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Community Health and Development (5 works)