In what direction should we go to promote health in mental health care?

There is a growing recognition of the need for health promotion interventions in all health care today. In spite of this, health promotion interventions among patients with mental illnesses have been scarce in research, practice, and policies. There is also an ambiguous interpretation of the definit...

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Published inInternational journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being Vol. 6; no. 2; pp. 7118 - 5
Main Author Svedberg, Petra
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Taylor & Francis 01.01.2011
CoAction Publishing
Taylor & Francis Group
Subjects
attitudes
Caring sciences
Health
Health and Lifestyle
Health care
Health promotion
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS
Interventions
Mental health care
Mentally ill people
nurses
nursing
Omvårdnad
people
Psychiatric nursing
services
TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN
Vårdvetenskap
health promotion
nursing
Health
mental health care
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Summary:There is a growing recognition of the need for health promotion interventions in all health care today. In spite of this, health promotion interventions among patients with mental illnesses have been scarce in research, practice, and policies. There is also an ambiguous interpretation of the definition of health promotion in the literature. The emphasis in this paper is thus to (1) discuss why we should pay attention to the interpretations of the concept of health promotion and (2) present a possible model for what nurses do when they intend to promote health in mental health care. This paper was presented at the Nordic Conference of Mental Health Nursing in Helsinki, Finland in 2010.
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ISSN:1748-2631
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1748-2631
DOI:10.3402/qhw.v6i2.7118