Dean Whitehead1. 1. Massey University, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Health and Social Services, Palmerston North, New Zealand. D.Whitehead@massey.ac.nz
Abstract
AIM: To develop a unique framework which combines the concepts of settings and lifespan where they are applied to health promotion. BACKGROUND: The influential World Health Organisation's 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion supported certain settings being nominated as unique social systems for enabling specific health promotion activity. These initially included a whole raft of proposed settings ranging from the micro to macro; these at the time mainly being hospitals, communities, schools, workplaces, cities, villages, islands and the home and family. Several other settings have since also been added to the list - which now include health-promoting universities and health-promoting prisons. Most of the mentioned settings have in more recent times being acknowledged in the nursing literature. DESIGN: Discursive. METHOD: A critical examination and exploration of the existing health promotion literature related to both settings and lifespan. RESULTS: It is possible to combine the related, but hitherto unexplored, concepts of health promotion settings and lifespan. This has resulted in a useable framework to further assist practitioners with their health promotion work. CONCLUSION: What has not yet surfaced in both the nursing and the general health promotion literature is that most settings can be linked as a whole, not just by their geographical location and proximity to each other, but also to the fact that they tend to follow a linear direction that ranges across the total lifespan. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: Viewing health promotion in the way that this framework proposes further assists in locating and clarifying the often confused and contested position of health promotion in nursing.
AIM: To develop a unique framework which combines the concepts of settings and lifespan where they are applied to health promotion. BACKGROUND: The influential World Health Organisation's 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion supported certain settings being nominated as unique social systems for enabling specific health promotion activity. These initially included a whole raft of proposed settings ranging from the micro to macro; these at the time mainly being hospitals, communities, schools, workplaces, cities, villages, islands and the home and family. Several other settings have since also been added to the list - which now include health-promoting universities and health-promoting prisons. Most of the mentioned settings have in more recent times being acknowledged in the nursing literature. DESIGN: Discursive. METHOD: A critical examination and exploration of the existing health promotion literature related to both settings and lifespan. RESULTS: It is possible to combine the related, but hitherto unexplored, concepts of health promotion settings and lifespan. This has resulted in a useable framework to further assist practitioners with their health promotion work. CONCLUSION: What has not yet surfaced in both the nursing and the general health promotion literature is that most settings can be linked as a whole, not just by their geographical location and proximity to each other, but also to the fact that they tend to follow a linear direction that ranges across the total lifespan. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: Viewing health promotion in the way that this framework proposes further assists in locating and clarifying the often confused and contested position of health promotion in nursing.
Authors: U Lindmark; I Ahlstrand; A Ekman; L Berg; L Hedén; J Källstrand; M Larsson; H Nunstedt; L Oxelmark; S Pennbrant; A Sundler; I Larsson Journal: BMC Public Health Date: 2020-02-14 Impact factor: 3.295