Knowledge and health promotion practice of Family Health Strategy nurses

Abstract

Objectives: to analyze the knowledge and health promotion practice carried out by Family Health Strategy nurses. Methods: a descriptive study and qualitative approach. The study was conducted with 18 Family Health Strategy nurses from the city of São Carlos. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed through thematic analysis. The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee. Results: the data revealed that nurses had difficulties to conceptualize health promotion, and it is common to describe the definition of disease prevention. Nurses also reported developing group activities for health promotion; however, individual actions and consultations were still predominant. Final Considerations: it is necessary to develop sustainable strategies for collective health-promoting activities, in addition to strengthening multidisciplinary work and Continuing Education actions.

Knowledge Translation of Scholarly Publishing Impacts on Public Health

“…All results demonstrate that scholarly publishing can give an important contribution to the health and well-being of China. The findings in this paper agree with the former conclusions reported in the literature that that various knowledge is necessary for health and well-being [6], knowledge can promote public health [9,10], serious health problems could occur due to lack of knowledge can cause [11], knowledge is necessary for making proper decisions and realizing actions [5], health outcomes can be improved by making better health decisions [13]. In conclusion, the combination of the correlation analysis, the principal component analysis, and multivariate regression methods is valid in the study of the correlation between scholarly publishing and health and well-being.…”

“…Most component score coefficients of the Document and journals published in China are comparable with those of education expenditure, School enrollment, tertiary (% gross), Current health expenditure per capita (current US$), and Nurses and midwives. This might be because knowledge is the most powerful engine for economic development [54], accelerated sustainable economic growth [5], increasing knowledge, and developing knowledge can improve public health [9,10]. That all these input factors can improve health and well-being according to Table 6 is consistent with the above conclusion drawn in the literature.…”

“…Such linear relationships between the principal components (it includes scholarly publishing, education, income, health expenditure, etc.) and the target data (the data of public health in China) could originate that knowledge is necessary for the health benefits and the knowledge for health and well-being is various [6], either increasing knowledge or developing knowledge can improve public health [9,10], lack of knowledge can cause serious health problems [11], it needs knowledge for making proper decisions and realizing actions [5], making better health decisions leads to improved health outcomes [13], knowledge is the most powerful engine for economic development [54], knowledge can accelerate sustainable economic growth [5]. In other words, both economic development and regional development can improve health and well-being.…”

“…In other words, both economic development and regional development can improve health and well-being. knowledge is necessary for the health benefits and the knowledge for health and well-being is various [6], either increasing knowledge or developing knowledge can improve public health [9,10], lack of knowledge can cause serious health problems [11], it needs knowledge for making proper decisions and realizing actions [5], making better health decisions leads to improved health outcomes [13].…”

“…Increasing knowledge and awareness by training health professionals to communicate and deliver targeted preconception care, which aims to enhance health status before conception to reduce perinatal morbidity and mortality and improve maternal and child health, interventions may be important [9]. Health promotion is not only related to the prevention of diseases, it is essential to invest in health education actions aiming at the sharing of knowledge, as well as the development of knowledge [10]. Lack of knowledge can cause serious health problems.…”