Societies 2017, 7(2), 10; https://doi.org/10.3390/soc7020010
Principled Promotion of Health: Implementing Five Guiding Health Promotion Principles for Research-Based Prevention and Management of Diabetes
Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Health Promotion Research, 2820 Gentofte, Denmark
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Received: 9 February 2017 / Revised: 20 April 2017 / Accepted: 24 April 2017 / Published: 26 April 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Health Promotion)
Abstract
Background: Based on widespread critique of the moralizing paradigm that has long characterized much of the work conducted within the field of health promotion, Steno Health Promotion Research has developed a comprehensive health promotion approach consisting of five principles that constitute the framework for a new intervention paradigm. The five principles are: (1) A broad and positive health concept; (2) Participation and involvement; (3) Action and action competence; (4) A settings perspective and (5) Equity in health. Objectives: To describe a comprehensive health promotion approach consisting of five principles; to present research and development projects based on this set of principles; and to discuss experiences and results from implementing the health promotion principles in healthcare practices. Results and conclusion: The principle approach enables consolidation of hitherto disparate approaches into a single comprehensive approach. The principles have turned out to be productive and effective “management tools” that have led to new discoveries, but also helped to identify limitations. View Full-TextKeywords:
health promotion; diabetes prevention; diabetes management; implementation; chronic illness
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Grabowski, D.; Aagaard-Hansen, J.; Willaing, I.; Jensen, B.B. Principled Promotion of Health: Implementing Five Guiding Health Promotion Principles for Research-Based Prevention and Management of Diabetes. Societies 2017, 7, 10.
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