Can someone give me examples of successful health promotion strategies to combat diseases?
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Look up the name "mechai" and you will learn plenty about the aggressive public health campaign that brought condom use and AIDS prevention to the forefront of Thai popular culture. Mechai is the name of a man who launched an essentially one-man campaign to encourage condom use in Thais. When his efforts took off, local health authorities came in to help him with HIV prevention efforts. As a result, skyrocketing HIV incidence actually leveled off within a few years.\n\nHave you taken the time to learn about health behavior thoery? You might want to read about the Health Belief Model, Trans-Theoretical Model and Social Cognitive Theory. When you learn about these health behavior theories, the matieral is generally accompanied by examples of past health promotional campaigns built around those frameworks.
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Try checking the WHO (world health organisation) website, that would be your best chance to get accurate data.
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It has been a long time since working out of an office, but, in Family Practice, its always good to post information about childhood diseases and vaccinations, as well as information for the older bunch.\n\nMake a trip to an associates office and make some notes.  Don't go overboard out of the starting blocks, cause the drug reps will have all kinds of posters and such, that always looks good in the exam rooms.
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Try the link below.  You can also search Google using "standard practices in the hospitals for staff and patients to prevent infection".  You will get this link as well as some specifically geared towards flu protection.
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As a former health educator, I have the privilege of letting you know that the two questions you tied together are separately the two most misunderstood aspects of health facing the general public.  But relax, the answers are fairly simple.\n\n  Question #2:  in general the more you live like a healthy young animal, the longer and more exhuberantly you will live like a healthy young animal.  Let me explain!\n\n  The University of California at Berkeley did a study in 1976 that has often been imitated but never bested.  They found, I think, a thousand old people that they considered to be healthy, energetic and mentally sharp.  Then they extracted seven behaviors that they discovered these people tended to share.  Not a surprise in the bunch . . .  When I worked at Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Kansas I created a little pamphlet about the "Seven Golden Rules of Health" and added "the eighth golden rule is to always buckle up when you drive or ride in an automobile,"  the special seven were:\n\n1. 7-8 hours sleep nightly\n2. eat a good breakfast every day\n3. maintain a normal weight\n4. eat 3-4 meals daily\n5. no tobacco or drugs\n6. light or no use use of alcohol\n7. regular vigorous exercise\n\n  This is only mildly interesting, but then UC Berkeley did a marvelous thing.  They took their seven golden rules and extrapolated them into the younger public over a very long study.  The result was powerful stuff!  A man of 55 who practiced 6-7 of the golden rules had the same actuarial age as a man of 20 who practiced only 0-1 of the rules.  In other words the two men might be expected to die on the same day!!!  From several separate studies, I can also respond to your "question #3" and say that unequivocably those oldsters who enjoy frequent sex always test out as more happy and healthy than those who get less or none.  OK, let's look at question #1, losing weight.\n\n  The main things you need to know are:  A.  Diets and diet foods don't work, and dieters tend to gain weight over time  B.  Eating healthy food and getting sufficient exercise is the key  C. Losing weight quickly tricks many people into making themselves very unhealthy (high protein- low carb diets in particular) by dehydration and loss of muscle mass). It is more important to get fit slowly and build muscle mass since each pound of muscle metabolizes six pounds of fat every year.  Lose weight by getting fit, looking better and building more muscles.\n\nA very recent study of successful weight losers came up with five main differences between those who lost a lot of weight and kept it off for over seven years; and those who failed to lose weight; and those lost but then regained it all back or more.  The successful weight losers did the following:   1.  Ate healthy:  more fresh fruits and vegetables and whole grains/fewer heavily-processed foods; fewer calories; less fat  2.  Monitored their weight and waist at least once weekly  3.  Very physically active  and 4.  Ate a healthy breakfast every day  (typically whole grain cereals and a couple fruits like bananas and apples) 5.  The successful weight losers did NOT lose weight as fast as those who eventually failed to lose or as those who lost weight and then gained it back!!  Good luck, may you live ultra-long and prosper, you slender young animal, you!
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Hi Jen\n\nHere are some ideas on how to heal your condition.\n\nQuick Action Plan for Preventing and Treating Heart Disease\n\n1. Since up to 50 percent of heart disease cases can strike without any warning symptoms, it’s important to regularly be screened for signs of heart disease. In addition to conventional heart disease signals, such as high blood pressure and cholesterol and triglyceride levels, have your health care provider also screen you for markers such as C-reactive protein, homocysteine, fibrinogen, lipoprotein(a), glucose, insulin, and iron.\n\n2. Also be sure to be screened for vulnerable plaque, which is the primary cause of 85 percent of all cases of heart disease. Effective screening tools for vulnerable plaque include ultra-high-speed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and darkfield microscropy.\n\n3. You should also be screened for infectious agents such as Chlamydia, Helicobacter pylori, cytomegalovirus (CMV), and the herpes family of retroviruses\n\n4. Oxidized cholesterol, rather than elevated cholesterol levels by themselves, is another primary factor in most cases of heart disease, and therefore should also be screened for.\n\n5. A healthy diet is essential for a healthy heart. Emphasize a diet rich in organic whole foods, especially plenty of fresh, raw fruits and vegetables, oats, whole grains, nuts, seeds, and organic, free-range poultry and wild-caught, cold water fish, such as halibut, mackerel, orange roughy, and salmon (avoid farm raised salmon). Beans and legumes are also advisable due to their high fiber content. Throughout the day, drink plenty of pure, filtered water, and avoid drinking—as well as bathing, and showering in—unfiltered tap water, because tap water contains heavy metals and pesticide residues that can contribute to and worsen heart disease. Also be sure to regularly use healthy oils such as extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil, flaxseed oil, and fish oils for the essential fatty acids they contain.\n\n6. Useful nutritional supplements for protecting your heart include beta carotene; vitamins B3 (niacin), B6, B12, C, and E; folic acid; the minerals calcium, chromium, magnesium, potassium, and selenium; the amino acids L-arginine, L-lysine, L-proline, and L-carnitine; coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10); and proanthrocyanidin (PCA).\n\n7. Useful herbs include foxglove, garlic, ginkgo biloba, ginger, hawthorn berry, linden flower, and motherwort.\n\n8. Be sure to engage in a regular exercise program that combines aerobic exercise and strength training. For best result, devote 30 minutes three times per week to aerobic exercise, and 45 minutes twice a week for strength training.\n\n9. Learn how to properly manage stress. Useful stress reduction techniques include biofeedback training, meditation, and yoga.\n\n10. If you smoke, stop immediately. Also avoid all exposure to secondhand cigarette smoke, and minimize your exposure to environmental pollutants. \n\nBest of health to you\n\nCheers
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Nurse.  Drink a lot of water, don't eat at night.  Naturely low fat food, walk a lot every day, lots of vegetables, fruits, stay away from sugar  Play with the kids a LOT!!!  :)  arum
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not sure if I understand your question could you please elaborate with a more fuller sentence?. health practices?. nothing that ive heard, again rephrase your question :).
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You will find most of what you arel looking for regarding the first two question here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_production.  You will find your answer to question three here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease and as for the last one you will find here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing\n\nGood Luck :-)!!!
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http://www.1thinkhealthy.com/Dr-James-Chappell.html\nhttp://www.calcompnutrition.com/promise-made-promise-kept.html
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Well, grandmasue, what have you done to raise awareness of AIDS and safe sex as a means of prevention?  Sounds to me like another one of those self righteous diatribes.  Before you criticize others for trying to make the world a better place, get busy and do your part, then you won't have any time to make these observations.  Stop preaching and start practicing!
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Here is a helpful website, hope it is helpful:\n\nhttp://ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/prev/prevention.htm
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Hi ..No special diet has been proven effective for preventing or treating this disease... Some people find their symptoms are made worse by milk, alcohol, hot spices, or fiber... People are encouraged to follow a nutritious diet and avoid any foods that seem to worsen symptoms... But there are no consistent rules...\n\nPeople should take vitamin supplements only on their doctor's advice..\n\nI put a link, below..with information..about the foundation! ...\ni wish you, all the best , and the courage, you need!!...\n\nKind, regards!:)
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It has been proven over and over again that regular handwashing can result in a healthier lifestyle.\n\nHandwashing Keeps Us Healthy \nHERE'S WHY!\n\nBacteria and viruses that make people sick can be passed on our hands. Handwashing is the most important way to reduce the spread of infection. You can't avoid collecting germs, but you can reduce the chance of infecting others by knowing when to wash.
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We all have the power to take away (and prevent) sickness.  It's something that's not widely publicized thanks to the AMA, the US government and the pharmaceutical industry.\n\nIf you truly want to take responsibility for your health, here are a few websites to get you started:\n\nhttp://www.whfoods.com/eathealthy.php\nhttp://www.curezone.com\nhttp://www.therawfoodsite.com/mastercleanse.htm\nhttp://www.dadamo.com/
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See Hulda Clark's book 'A Cure for all diseases'\n\nwww.drclark.net/en/drclark_protocol/illnesses/ms.php
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read http://www.shaklee.net/thehealthyway/distEarnliving