In this article, human ecology is defined; its historical and intellectual roots are traced
through various disciplines to its applications in public health and health promotion today; its …

Since the 1980s, ecological models of health promotion have generated a great deal of
enthusiasm among researchers and interventionists. These models emerged from conceptual …

Alongside community involvement, promoting social participation has been identified as a
key strategy of fostering empowerment, one of the central tenets of the health promotion …

Social participation is a key determinant of successful and healthy aging and therefore an
important emerging intervention goal for health professionals. Despite the interest shown in …

Pressure overload induces cardiac growth in the rat, which implies the hypertrophy of cardiac
muscle cells and proliferation of nonmuscle cells. The cardiac cell loss observed in parallel …

Purpose. This article proposes a model of the ecological approach in health promotion
programs. Based on system theory, the model identifies intervention settings and targets as two …

Apoptosis or programmed cell death frequently parallels abnormalities in cell proliferation
and differentiation. As hypertrophy/hyperplasia or remodeling occurs in organs affected by …

Background: We examined the ability of adult Canadians to recall cardiovascular disease
risk factors to determine the associations between their ability to recall risk factors for …

Objectives.This study investigated factors related to the perceived sustainability of 189 heart
health promotion interventions initiated by a public health department or research initiative …

Background: There is growing evidence that neighborhood environments are related to
depressive mood in the general population. Older adults may be even more vulnerable to …