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HEALTH PROMOTION

Specialty Definition: HEALTH PROMOTION

DomainDefinition

Health

Encouraging consumer behaviors most likely to optimize health potentials (physical and psychosocial) through health information, preventive programs, and access to medical care. (references)
 The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: HEALTH PROMOTION

Synonym: Promotion of health. (additional references)

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Crosswords: HEALTH PROMOTION

Specialty definitions using "HEALTH PROMOTION": Preconception Care, primary prevention. (references)

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Commercial Usage: HEALTH PROMOTION

DomainTitle

Books

  • Indoor Allergens: Assessing and Controlling Adverse Health Effects (Committee on the Health Effects of Indoor Allergens, Division of Health promotion (reference)

  • Health Promotion Through Islamic Lifestyles: The Amman Declaration (The Right Path to Health - Health Education Through Religion , No 5) (reference)

  • Planning Hospital Health Promotion Services for Business and Industry (reference)

  • Health Promotion at the Community Level (Sage Sourcebooks for the Human Services Series, 15) (reference)

  • Health Promotion and Aging: The Role of Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: HEALTH PROMOTION

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Only Dags Need Fags! / Health Promotion Branch, South Australian Health Commission.... Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: HEALTH PROMOTION

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

As in other areas of health promotion, mass communication strategies should be used to promote physical activity. (references)

It is thus appropriate that increasing calcium intake is a national health promotion and disease prevention objective in the Healthy People 2000 agenda (Department of Health and Human Services Publication Number 91.50212). Public health strategies to promote optimal calcium intake should have a broad outreach and should involve educators, health professionals, and the private and public sectors. (references)

Economic History

Singapore

The Health Promotion Board will provide the framework for greater focus on major health problems and spearhead health education, promotion and preventive programs. (references)

Singapore

One of the main tasks of the Health Promotion Board is to implement a three-year nationwide screening program for all Singaporeans aged 55 and above, estimated to cost the government US$4.0 million. (references)

Singapore

For 2001, Singapore's Health Ministry should receive more than US$166 million, a 30% budget increase from 2000. Two new statutory boards, the Health Promotion Board and the Health Sciences Authority, have been set up under the Health Ministry. (references)

Worker Rights

Hong Kong

The Factory Inspectorate Division has been restructured to strengthen its safety and health promotion and enforcement program. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HEALTH PROMOTION

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

health promotion

158

mental health promotion

4

health promotion job

23

grant health promotion

3

american journal of health promotion

20

case health promotion study

3

england health promotion

18

definition health promotion

3

health promotion wellness

18

center for health promotion and preventive medicine

3

health promotion model

17

health promotion research

3

board health promotion

12

health promotion swindon

3

health promotion program

8

workplace health promotion

3

worksite health promotion

7

club health promotion

3

association health promotion worksite

6

health promotion theory

3

act health promotion protection

6

employment health promotion

2

center health promotion

5

agency health promotion uk

2

community education health promotion

5

health promotion resource

2

disease prevention and health promotion

5

conference health promotion

2

agency health promotion

5

health promotion tool

2

career health promotion

4

worksite health promotion program

2

board health promotion singapore

4

fitness health promotion

2

health promotion uk

4

continental health promotion

2

child health promotion

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: HEALTH PROMOTION

Language Translations for "HEALTH PROMOTION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

Fællesskabshandlingsprogram for sundhedsfremme,sundhedsoplysning,sundhedsundervisning og sundhedsuddannelse som led i indsatsen inden for folkesundhed (education and training within the framework for action in the field of public health, information, Programme of Community action on health promotion). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gezondheidsbevordering. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

Terveyden edistämistä,terveydestä tiedottamista,terveyskasvatusta ja-koulutusta koskeva yhteisön toimintaohjelma kansanterveyden alalla(vuosiksi 1996-2000) (education and training within the framework for action in the field of public health, information, Programme of Community action on health promotion). (various references)

   

French

  

promotion de la santé. (various references)

   

German

  

Gesundheitsförderung. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

προώθηση της υγείας. (various references)

   

Italian

  

promozione della salute. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ealthhay omotionpray

   

Portuguese

  

promoção da saúde. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Programa de acción comunitario de promoción,información,educación y formación en materia de salud en el marco de la acción en el ámbito de la salud pública (education and training within the framework for action in the field of public health, information, Programme of Community action on health promotion). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Gemenskapens åtgärdsprogram för främjande av och upplysning,undervisning och utbildning om hälsa inom ramen för verksamheten på folkhälsoområdet (education and training within the framework for action in the field of public health, information, Programme of Community action on health promotion). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HEALTH PROMOTION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-h-h-i-l-m-n-o-o-o-p-r-t-t"

-3 letters: metropolitan.

-4 letters: promotional.

-5 letters: hierophant, homopteran, lithophane, pheromonal, portamenti, portamento, protonemal, thiopental, toleration, trampoline.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HEALTH PROMOTION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 45 41 4C 54 48      50 52 4F 4D 4F 54 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01000101 01000001 01001100 01010100 01001000 00100000 01010000 01010010 01001111 01001101 01001111 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#65 &#76 &#84 &#72 &#32 &#80 &#82 &#79 &#77 &#79 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 0041 004C 0054 0048      0050 0052 004F 004D 004F 0054 0049 004F 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4239354654422505249474954434948

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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