The creation of age-friendly environments worldwide has been promoted by the World
Health Organization as a strategy to address the challenges posed by the converging trends …

Aims: Contemporary approaches to pursuing public value and the vision of health and
wellbeing for all have evolved notably in the past few decades, with distinct approaches …

Sense of coherence (SOC) reflects a coping capacity of people to deal with everyday life
stressors and consists of three elements: comprehensibility, manageability and …

Background The concept of health promotion rests on aspirations aiming at enabling people
to increase control over and improve their health. Health promotion action is facilitated in …

The current COVID-19 pandemic confines people to their homes, disrupting the fragile social
fabric of deprived neighbourhoods and citizen's participation options. In deprived …

The health-promoting settings approach is well established in health promotion, with
organisational settings being understood as complex systems able to support human …

Purpose Social marketing has gained widespread recognition as a means of motivating
behaviour change in individuals for societal good. Many opinions have been shared …

Background Health promotion, with a focus on multidimensional upstream factors and an
ecological, life-course approach, is establishing itself as the guiding philosophy for …

The settings approach to health promotion, first advocated in the 1986 Ottawa Charter for
Health Promotion, was introduced as an expression of the 'new public health', generating …

Systematic reviews framed by PICOS (Populations, Interventions, Comparisons, Outcomes,
and Study designs) have been valuable for synthesizing evidence about the effects of …