Blue care: A systematic review of blue space interventions for health and wellbeing

E Britton, G Kindermann, C Domegan… - Health promotion …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
There is increasing interest in the potential use of outdoor water environments, or blue
space, in the promotion of human health and wellbeing. However, therapeutic nature-based …

Improving health literacy in community populations: a review of progress

D Nutbeam, B McGill… - Health promotion …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Governments around the world have adopted national policies and programs to improve
health literacy. This paper examines progress in the development of evidence to support …

Mental, physical and social health benefits of immersive nature-experience for children and adolescents: A systematic review and quality assessment of the evidence

L Mygind, E Kjeldsted, R Hartmeyer, E Mygind… - Health & place, 2019 - Elsevier
In this systematic review, we summarised and evaluated the evidence for benefits of
immersive nature-experience on children and adolescents' mental, physical and social …

The role and place of medicinal plants in the strategies for disease prevention

A Sofowora, E Ogunbodede, A Onayade - African journal of traditional …, 2013 - ajol.info
Medicinal plants have been used in healthcare since time immemorial. Studies have been
carried out globally to verify their efficacy and some of the findings have led to the production …

Psychotherapeutic benefits of compassion-focused therapy: An early systematic review

J Leaviss, L Uttley - Psychological medicine, 2015 - cambridge.org
Background. Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) is a relatively novel form of psychotherapy
that was developed for people who have mental health problems primarily linked to high …

The World Health Organization's Health Promoting Schools framework: a Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis

R Langford, C Bonell, H Jones, T Pouliou, S Murphy… - BMC public health, 2015 - Springer
Background Healthy children achieve better educational outcomes which, in turn, are
associated with improved health later in life. The World Health Organization's Health …

Interventions for promoting the initiation of breastfeeding

OO Balogun, EJ O'Sullivan… - Cochrane Database …, 2016 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Despite the widely documented risks of not breastfeeding, initiation rates
remain relatively low in many high‐income countries, particularly among women in lower …

The WHO Health Promoting School framework for improving the health and well‐being of students and their academic achievement

R Langford, CP Bonell, HE Jones… - Cochrane database …, 2014 - cochranelibrary.com
Background The World Health Organization's (WHO's) Health Promoting Schools (HPS)
framework is an holistic, settings‐based approach to promoting health and educational …

Evaluating the public health impact of health promotion interventions: the RE-AIM framework.

RE Glasgow, TM Vogt… - American journal of …, 1999 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Progress in public health and community-based interventions has been hampered by the
lack of a comprehensive evaluation framework appropriate to such programs. Multilevel …

Complex interventions: how “out of control” can a randomised controlled trial be?

P Hawe, A Shiell, T Riley - Bmj, 2004 - bmj.com
Many people think that standardisation and randomised controlled trials go hand in hand.
Having an intervention look the same as possible in different places is thought to be …