INTRODUCTION: The Internet has emerged as a potentially effective medium for information
exchange. The Internet's potential has been recognised and web-based education …

Background Increasing prevalence and disease burden has led to an increasing demand of
programs and studies focused on dietary and lifestyle habits, and chronic diseases such as …

Introduction: A systematic literature review examined the published evidence on the
effectiveness of European promotional communications for national immunisation schedule …

Objective: Long-term rehabilitation success depends on regular exercise and healthy
nutrition. The present study introduces a new framework to explain this association on a …

Background The aim was to evaluate the effect of a 12-month individualized health coaching
intervention by telephony on clinical outcomes. Methods An open-label cluster-randomized …

Abstract Background The 2013 Global Burden of Disease Study demonstrated the
increasing burden of diabetes and the challenge it poses to the health systems of all …

Background Diabetes is becoming a very important health issue in rapidly developing
nations and there is an urgent need to improve overall diabetes self-management education …

The enormous time lag between the discovery of new knowledge and its implementation
poses a significant challenge to improving public health because of the very slow uptake …

Background: School-based interventions that increase physical activity (PA) in a sustainable
way are lacking. Systematic and participatory, theory and evidence-based intervention …

Behavior is centrally important to the disease processes and management of almost all
communicable and non-communicable health conditions. Key behaviors such as poor …