Using theory to guide policy relevant health promotion research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22945253 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathryn Dean (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-26 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Promotion International (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-4824 • E-ISSN: 1460-2245 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/heapro/11.1.19 |
| OpenAlex | W2000989250 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 11 |
The concept of health promotion has evolved into a strategy for improving health that goes beyond individual behaviour to include the physical, social and economic environments in which health and behaviour are shaped. The core of the strategy is to stimulate action against the root causes of ill health in communities. A prerequisite for effective health promotion action is valid knowledge about how forces protect or damage health in daily life. Developing and using theory to guide the collection, analysis and evaluation of empirical evidence is a neglected aspect of obtaining the knowledge needed for promoting health. Population interventions to reduce cholesterol provide an example that illustrates the consequences of basing community health policy and programmes on findings from empirical research without developing a logically sound theoretical basis for identifying inconsistencies and contradictions in the findings. The use of theory to guide research to support health promotion action is discussed.
Action (physics) · Economics · Empirical research · Environmental health · Epistemology · Health belief model · Health education · Health promotion · Political science · Population · Population health · Promotion (chess) · Psychological intervention · Public economics · Public health · Public relations · Social determinants of health · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · School Health and Nursing Education · Health Policy
Local health policy development processes in the Netherlands
Conceptualizing structural change in health promotion
Maximizing Wellness in Successful Aging and Cancer Coping
Health promotion through the lens of population health
Re-imagining the ‘social’ in the nutrition sciences
L’action structurante de l’utilisation d’un modèle pour la planification de programmes en promotion de la santé
The role of methods in maintaining orthodox beliefs in health research
New directions for health
The Structure of scientific theories
The logic of survey analysis.
Sick individuals and sick populations
Research Methods in Social Relations
Health promotion. What is it? What will it become?
Life style — An emergent concept in the sociomedical sciences
Social Theory and Social Structure
The Career of Causal Analysis in American Sociology
The impact of social science research on health policy
Beyond the orthodox
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2018 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |