Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Claudia Schroeer, Stephan Voss, Caroline Jung-Sievers, Michaela Coenen
Summary: Digital technologies in public health are primarily used in medical settings, but there is limited research on digital media facilitating participation and empowerment in community settings. Digital formats are particularly suitable for purposes where anonymity and flexibility are beneficial, such as online peer exchange and peer support programs.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Sara Svanholm, Heidi Carlerby, Eija Viitasara
Summary: Integration is crucial for the health and well-being of newly arrived migrants. In Sweden, civic orientation programs aim to promote integration and increase employment opportunities. This study explored how civic communicators approach health promotion in their work with newly arrived migrants. The findings highlighted the importance of knowledge and guidance in empowering migrants to make informed decisions and live healthy lives in Sweden.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Breanne L. Aylward, Krista M. Milford, Kate E. Storey, Candace I. J. Nykiforuk, Kim D. Raine
Summary: The study explored stakeholders' experiences of the LEAF project in Alberta, Canada, which uses citizen science to monitor food environments. Analysis revealed two main themes: relationship building and process factors. Communities used strategies like engaging the right people, treading lightly, and reaching a consensus to navigate relationship building challenges. The study recommends a web application for independent community food environment assessments to sustain citizen involvement and promote healthy food environments.
Article
Nursing
Anabela Fonseca Pereira, Joaquim Jose Jacinto Escola, Carlos Manuel Torres Almeida, Vitor Manuel Costa Pereira Rodrigues
Summary: This study aimed to assess parents' views on health education practices for children and teenagers. The results showed that parents were generally comfortable talking to nurses about their children's health, and believed that nurses had time to address their concerns. The most important topics identified were healthy eating, the national vaccination plan, and harmful behavior prevention. When in doubt, parents tended to consult a pediatrician first, considering it equally important as other nursing interventions.
Article
Nursing
Anabela Fonseca Pereira, Joaquim Jose Jacinto Escola, Carlos Manuel Torres Almeida, Vitor Manuel Costa Pereira Rodrigues
Summary: This study aimed to assess parents' evaluation of health education practices for children and teenagers. The results showed that the majority of parents feel comfortable talking to nurses about their children's health, believe that nurses have time available to clarify doubts, and acknowledge nurses' ability to identify the needs of children and teenagers. Healthy eating, the National Vaccination Plan, and harmful behaviors prevention were identified as the most important health education topics.
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Kalyani Premkumar, Rajkumar Ramasamy, Mary Ramasamy, Harini Aiyer
Summary: The child-to-child approach to health advocacy empowers children to make a positive impact in their communities. The 'Little Doctors' program in India trained middle- and high school children to respond to prevalent diseases and practice preventive measures. The program successfully created a creative learning environment and students were awarded certificates as 'Little Doctors'. Although the program faced challenges and had to be discontinued, it had a positive impact on the communities.
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Cristina Lima Araujo, Ana Moreira, Graca S. Carvalho
Summary: This study conducted a scoping review to examine postural education programs for children and adolescents, focusing on methodologies, key factors, and results. The review found that most programs targeted adolescents, with limited research on preschool-aged children. Follow-up studies showed inconsistent results. However, developing and evaluating effective postural education programs for young children is crucial for their healthy development and can contribute to environmental and social sustainability by promoting healthy lifestyles.
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Gbotemi Bukola Babatunde, B. Schmidt, Netsai Bianca Gwelo, Olagoke Akintola
Summary: This scoping review aims to characterize and synthesize the definitions, conceptualizations, operationalizations, and indicators for measuring community empowerment in the health promotion literature. The study will follow the scoping review methods and include relevant studies from various databases. The findings of this study will contribute to a better understanding of community empowerment and its measurement in the context of health promotion.
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Marina Sayuri Yakuwa, Leticia Pancieri, Sarah Neill, Debora Falleiros de Mello
Summary: This study analyzed mothers' understanding of child brain development and their stimulus practices with children in the first months of life. The results showed that mothers had limited knowledge about child brain development and focused more on the development of neuropsychomotor skills. There was uncertainty about the daily care practices that would provide appropriate child stimuli. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen parenting practices in early childhood to promote child development.
Article
Nursing
Astrid Durdei Midtsund, Lisa Garnweidner-Holme, Lisbeth Valla, Mirjam Lukasse, Lena Henriksen
Summary: The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of public health nurses in child and family health centres in detecting and preventing child maltreatment. Fourteen semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with public health nurses from 11 different centres. The analysis of the interviews identified three themes: integrating knowledge to prevent child maltreatment, striving to detect child maltreatment, and experiencing the assignment as complex and demanding. The findings indicate that despite their extensive experience, knowledge, and adherence to guidelines, public health nurses face difficulties in identifying children exposed to child maltreatment in child and family health centres. They call for multidisciplinary cooperation and organizational facilitation to effectively address this issue.
JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Rita Karoline Olsen
Summary: Child participation is advocated in various contexts, and empowering children is crucial for their active involvement. This article explores the theoretical framework for ethically justifiable participation situations with adults, and introduces four dimensions of empowerment: information, autonomy, recognition, and alliance.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Sara Chamberlain, Priyanka Dutt, Anna Godfrey, Radharani Mitra, Amnesty Elizabeth LeFevre, Kerry Scott, Jai Mendiratta, Vinod Chauhan, Salil Arora
Summary: The paper reflects on lessons learned from scaling and transitioning a large mobile health programme to the Indian government, highlighting challenges in private sector business models, reassessment of programme components, operational viability, use of big data, and government engagement.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Julie Watson, Ibtihal Mohammed-Elhassan Osman, Maud Amon-Tanoh, Claudio Deola, Amy MacDougall, Oliver Cumming
Summary: Increasing handwashing with soap among older children in emergency settings is important but evidence on effective methods is limited. The 'Surprise Soap' intervention, which provides children with soap embedded with a toy, is one promising approach. This study evaluated the effectiveness of this intervention compared to a standard intervention in a complex emergency setting.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jonas Wachinger, Mark Donald C. Renosa, Vivienne Endoma, Mila F. Aligato, Jhoys Landicho-Guevarra, Jeniffer Landicho, Thea Andrea Bravo, Shannon A. McMahon
Summary: The study reveals that parents and family members play dominant roles in negotiating childhood vaccination within households. Despite gender-based power imbalances, disadvantaged stakeholders can influence decision-making by drawing on various sources of bargaining power, such as physical presence, interest and conviction in vaccination, previous vaccination experience, and access to household resources.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Andrea Timothy, David Coetzee, Christopher Morgan, Margaret Kelaher, Ross Stewart Bailie, Margie Danchin
Summary: This study aimed to improve childhood immunisation service delivery in Khayelitsha, Western Cape Province, using an adaptive, co-design approach. Interventions developed based on identified barriers included community immunisation education radio sessions, clinic health talks, promotion materials, and quality checklists. Evaluation post-intervention showed improvement in parent knowledge, engagement, and service provider commitment.