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Health promotion is one the major interventions employed in healthcare delivery generally and primary care in particular. Health promotion enables individuals, families, populations and communities to adopt and/or adapt lifestyles that promote and improve health. It helps the community members to make the right choices that can improve their health.

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Demand for Health and Healthcare IntechOpen

WEBHealthy human beings are the center of sustainable development, and human beings have long sought to maintain and improve their health by increasing their health …

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Health Literacy: An Intervention to Improve Health Outcomes

WEB2. Introduction. The term health literacy was introduced in 1974 in a paper calling for minimum health education standards for all grade-school levels in the United …

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Digital Frontiers in Healthcare: Integrating mHealth, AI

WEBIn an era where technology and healthcare increasingly intertwine, we stand on the precipice of a seismic shift in the future of healthcare and medicine. This chapter …

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Ten Quality Improvement Initiatives to Standardize

WEBQuality improvement is a continuous journey to standardize healthcare processes and structure to reduce variation, achieve predictable results, and improve …

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Impact of Poverty on Health IntechOpen

WEBPoverty is not merely the absence of money but the absence of resources to get the necessities of life. Poverty and health are always in a reciprocal relationship. …

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Physical Activity and Health Promotion: A Public Health Imperative

WEBContinuing epidemiological and clinical studies have accumulated evidence that appropriate regular physical activity (PA) results in significant health benefits and …

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Patient Safety: Preventing Patient Harm and Building Capacity for

WEBPatient safety is a global public health concern. It is a health care discipline with ever evolving advancement and complexity resulting in consequential rise in patient …

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Role of Vegetables in Human Nutrition and Disease Prevention

WEBVegetables are important for human health because of their vitamins, minerals, phytochemical compounds, and dietary fiber content. Especially antioxidant …

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Health, Academic Achievement and School-Based Interventions

WEBThere is a statistically significant relationship between health and academic achievement. Research evidence shows that children who are healthy are at a low risk …

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Functional Foods and Human Health: An Overview IntechOpen

WEBFunctional food is a whole ingredient or a part of food that used as food for specific therapeutic purposes. It is divided into two wide categories: Conventional and …

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Healthcare Delivery Systems in Rural Areas IntechOpen

WEBHealth care is a fundamental right of every human being. About half of the world’s population (An estimated 3.4 billion of the world’s 7.6 billion in 2018) lived in rural …

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Introductory Chapter: What Is Global Health

WEB1. Introduction. A useful definition of “global health” is an elusive prey, hiding among its congeners of public health, international health, tropical public health, and …

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Improving Healthcare Access through Digital Health: The Use of

WEBHealthcare has been going through major digital transformations due to the extensive use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the sector. Many …

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Health Promotion and Its Challenges to Public Health Delivery …

WEB1. Introduction: conceptualizing health promotion. According to Tannahill [], health promotion is an umbrella term covering overlapping fields of health education, …

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Social Marketing for Health: Theoretical and Conceptual

WEB2. Key concepts of social marketing. Health interventions to be considered as social marketing programs need to fulfill some criteria. The benchmark criteria …

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Cultural Practices and Health Consequences: Health or Habits, the

WEB3. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) This is a cultural practice that has attracted worldwide concern due to its profound deleterious consequences on the …

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Herbal Medicines in African Traditional Medicine IntechOpen

WEBAfrican traditional medicine is a form of holistic health care system organized into three levels of specialty, namely divination, spiritualism, and herbalism. The …

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Impact of Pesticides on Environmental and Human Health

WEBHuman body burden due to organochlorine pesticides results from the universal presence of these contaminants in the environment. This constitutes a major public health concern; …

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