Verena Lindacher
Biographic Data
| ID | 6578237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Verena Lindacher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Verena |
| FAMILY NAME | Lindacher |
| SIGNATURE | LINDACHER V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Regensburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How Health Promoters Can Assess Capacity Building Processes in Setting-Based Approaches—Development and Testing of a Monitoring Instrument
Background : Health promoters often use stakeholder groups to jointly plan and implement local interventions. Stakeholder groups should take over responsibility to later run the health promotion program independently. Monitoring this process of capacity building can help health promoters improve the quality of the process. Instruments for the systematic assessment of capacity building among stakeholder groups are scarce. The goal of this study wa…
How Older Citizens in Germany Perceive and Handle Their Food Environment—A Qualitative Exploratory Study
Apart from individual factors like knowledge or personal motivation, the environment also influences a person's eating behaviour. Food environments can be described as the collective physical, economic, policy and sociocultural surroundings, opportunities and conditions that influence people's food choices and nutritional status. In order to explore how older citizens in rural Germany perceive and handle their food environment, we conducted semi-…
German senior citizens’ capabilities for physical activity: A qualitative study
Sen’s capability approach (CA) has found its way into health promotion over the last few years. The approach takes both individual factors as well as social and environmental conditions into account and therefore appears to have great potential to explore opportunities for (‘capabilities’) and barriers to active lifestyles. Thus, our objective in this study was to investigate which capabilities senior citizens perceive to have available to them i…
Empowering senior citizens for healthy nutrition in Germany: A pilot study
Main goal of this study was to analyse how empowerment processes and bottom-up activities aimed at healthier food choices and food environment could be initiated among a group of senior citizens (between 60 and 75 years old). The intervention was set up as a pilot study in a rural community (15,000 inhabitants) in the federal state of Bavaria, South Eastern Germany. A process evaluation documented how group formation and empowerment processes dev…
Empowerment for healthy nutrition in German communities: A study framework
Empowerment is seen as a key strategy for sustainable health promotion efforts. However, there is only limited research on how to link the empowerment approach to the promotion of healthy eating, which is a major current public health issue. The article presents the development of a study framework for implementing and evaluating an empowerment intervention for healthy nutrition. This framework was created for a community intervention study meani…
Online social networking sites—a novel setting for health promotion
Online social networking sites—a novel setting for health promotion
Empowerment for healthy nutrition in German communities: A study framework
Empowerment is seen as a key strategy for sustainable health promotion efforts. However, there is only limited research on how to link the empowerment approach to the promotion of healthy eating, which is a major current public health issue. The article presents the development of a study framework for implementing and evaluating an empowerment intervention for healthy nutrition. This framework was created for a community intervention study meani…
Empowering senior citizens for healthy nutrition in Germany: A pilot study
Main goal of this study was to analyse how empowerment processes and bottom-up activities aimed at healthier food choices and food environment could be initiated among a group of senior citizens (between 60 and 75 years old). The intervention was set up as a pilot study in a rural community (15,000 inhabitants) in the federal state of Bavaria, South Eastern Germany. A process evaluation documented how group formation and empowerment processes dev…
German senior citizens’ capabilities for physical activity: A qualitative study
Sen’s capability approach (CA) has found its way into health promotion over the last few years. The approach takes both individual factors as well as social and environmental conditions into account and therefore appears to have great potential to explore opportunities for (‘capabilities’) and barriers to active lifestyles. Thus, our objective in this study was to investigate which capabilities senior citizens perceive to have available to them i…
How Health Promoters Can Assess Capacity Building Processes in Setting-Based Approaches—Development and Testing of a Monitoring Instrument
Background : Health promoters often use stakeholder groups to jointly plan and implement local interventions. Stakeholder groups should take over responsibility to later run the health promotion program independently. Monitoring this process of capacity building can help health promoters improve the quality of the process. Instruments for the systematic assessment of capacity building among stakeholder groups are scarce. The goal of this study wa…
How Older Citizens in Germany Perceive and Handle Their Food Environment—A Qualitative Exploratory Study
Apart from individual factors like knowledge or personal motivation, the environment also influences a person's eating behaviour. Food environments can be described as the collective physical, economic, policy and sociocultural surroundings, opportunities and conditions that influence people's food choices and nutritional status. In order to explore how older citizens in rural Germany perceive and handle their food environment, we conducted semi-…
Medicine (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Community Health and Development (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Health promotion (3 works) · Health, psychology, and well-being (3 works) · Public health (3 works)