Principled Promotion of Health: Implementing Five Guiding Health Promotion Principles for Research-Based Prevention and Management of Diabetes

Dan Grabowski, Jens Aagaard-Hansen, Ingrid Willaing and Bjarne Bruun Jensen
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Dan Grabowski: Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Health Promotion Research, 2820 Gentofte, Denmark
Jens Aagaard-Hansen: Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Health Promotion Research, 2820 Gentofte, Denmark
Ingrid Willaing: Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Health Promotion Research, 2820 Gentofte, Denmark
Bjarne Bruun Jensen: Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Health Promotion Research, 2820 Gentofte, Denmark

Societies, 2017, vol. 7, issue 2, 1-15

Abstract: Background: Based on widespread critique of the moralizing paradigm that has long characterized much of the work conducted within the field of health promotion, Steno Health Promotion Research has developed a comprehensive health promotion approach consisting of five principles that constitute the framework for a new intervention paradigm. The five principles are: (1) A broad and positive health concept; (2) Participation and involvement; (3) Action and action competence; (4) A settings perspective and (5) Equity in health. Objectives: To describe a comprehensive health promotion approach consisting of five principles; to present research and development projects based on this set of principles; and to discuss experiences and results from implementing the health promotion principles in healthcare practices. Results and conclusion: The principle approach enables consolidation of hitherto disparate approaches into a single comprehensive approach. The principles have turned out to be productive and effective “management tools” that have led to new discoveries, but also helped to identify limitations.

Keywords: health promotion; diabetes prevention; diabetes management; implementation; chronic illness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A14 P P0 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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