Primary Prevention of Ischemic Heart Disease: Evaluation of Community Interventions

Winkelstein, Warren; Marmot, Michael

doi:10.1146/annurev.pu.02.050181.001345

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“…Several longitudinal studies have been conducted in community samples to investigate the relation between lifestyles and illness risk. The Alameda County study (Belloc, 1973;Berkman, Breslow and Wingard, 1983), the Stanford Three Community Project (Winkelstein and Marmot, 1981), and the North Karelia Project (Puska, Vienola, Kotthe, Salomen and NeittaanmaÈ k, 1981) are probably the best known longitudinal studies.…”

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Personality Dispositions and Health-related Habits and Attitudes: a Cross-sectional Study

Lemos-Giráldez

Fidalgo-Aliste

1997

Eur. J. Pers.

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We examined the relations between the Big-Five personality dimensions, Health Locus of Control, and health-related behaviours and attitudes. We focused on the question of potential advantages of the five-factor model as an integrated framework for personality and health research. Fifteen health habits and attitudes (including smoking, alcohol consumption, exercise, a variety of dietary practices, current stressors, and attitudes toward smoking and alcohol consumption) were used to operationalize the subjects' lifestyle. The study involved 1184 students from twelve different university schools. Although our results resembled those of other studies, we found that Conscientiousness and Agreeableness were particularly noteworthy as predictors of health behaviours and cognitive attitudes and tendencies. Our results also suggest that both factors should be included as explanatory constructs in personality± disease models that may indirectly affect disease proneness via unhealthy behaviours.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personality Dispositions and Health-related Habits and Attitudes: a Cross-sectional Study

Lemos-Giráldez

Fidalgo-Aliste

1997

Eur. J. Pers.

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“…These studies indicate: a) it is possible to conduct complicated risk factor intervention trials in community settings; b) behavioral risk factors can be changed; c) the provision of education or information about the need to reduce risk factors is, in itself, insufficient. More attention is needed to understand why people engage in certain behavior and how programs should be designed; and d) the relationship of risk factor change to morbidity and mortality has not been addressed (Winkelstein and Marmot, 1981)• Two aspects of the work are cited above are of special relevance in forging a MH/PH linage: 1) future efforts in this area should include more sophisticated MH input if the success level of these programs and the generalizability beyond the demonstration phase is to occur; 2) these programs provide a model for community-based intervention projects for high prevalence MH conditions that MH professionals might undertake.…”

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Mental health and public health: Strengthening a working relationship

Goldstein¹

1989

J Primary Prevent

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This paper sets out some reasons for the relatively slight interactions between the fields of mental health and public health. These reasons include the problematic nature of case definition in the mental health field, the vague etiologic concepts in mental health, the stigma attached to mental illness, numerous ongoing professional conflicts, and the perceived failure of the community mental health center movement in the 1960s and '70s. The public health field is, itself, a broad based endeavor which is currently suffering from a large loss of financial resources. This has resulted in public health taking on a defensive posture which is implicitly inhospitable to mental health. The remainder of the paper specifies some areas in which contact between mental health and public health might be most productive, given the reality of the aforementioned constraints.

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“…A recent review of community intervention studies 30 concludes that it is possible to reach large segments of the population and effectively modify risk factors. It is therefore suggested that risk modification should be routinely incorporated into the primary care system.…”

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Implications of changing trends in cerebrovascular and ischemic heart disease mortality.

Nicholls¹,

Johansen²

1983

Stroke

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Primary Prevention of Ischemic Heart Disease: Evaluation of Community Interventions

Cited by 24 publications

References 35 publications

Personality Dispositions and Health-related Habits and Attitudes: a Cross-sectional Study

Personality Dispositions and Health-related Habits and Attitudes: a Cross-sectional Study

Mental health and public health: Strengthening a working relationship

Implications of changing trends in cerebrovascular and ischemic heart disease mortality.

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