Advances in health promotion in Africa: promoting health through hospitals

A district hospital in a rural area of the Limpopo Province in South Africa has recently been launched as a ‘Health Promoting Hospital’, based on the principles of the Ottawa Charter and according to standards developed by WHO-Europe. The initiative was conceived as a project in partnership with sta...

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Published in:Global health promotion 2010-06, Vol.17 (2_suppl), p.33-36
Main Authors: Delobelle, Peter, Onya, Hans, Langa, Cynthia, Mashamba, Joyce, Depoorter, Anne Marie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Action research
AIDS
Communicable Diseases
Community health care
Community health services
Community hospitals
Community Programs
Community Relations
Community-Institutional Relations
Departments
Disease
Educational Change
Empowerment
Environmental Influences
Evidence
Health authorities
Health Education
Health Promotion
Health Promotion - trends
HIV
Hospitals
Hospitals, District
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Inservice Education
Inservice training
Needs Assessment
Nutrition research
Occupational safety
Organizational Change
Patients
Pilot projects
Program Design
Program Evaluation
Public health
Regional Health Planning
Rural areas
Rural communities
Social Support Groups
South Africa
Sports training
Stakeholders
Teaching Methods
Trust (Psychology)
Well being
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Summary:A district hospital in a rural area of the Limpopo Province in South Africa has recently been launched as a ‘Health Promoting Hospital’, based on the principles of the Ottawa Charter and according to standards developed by WHO-Europe. The initiative was conceived as a project in partnership with stakeholders from the local community and is considered a pilot by Provincial health authorities, representing an advance in health promotion practice in the region. The project was designed as a research intervention, guided by the principles of critical action research integrated with the Precede-Proceed model for the systematic evaluation of health promotion and education. This commentary reports on the process undertaken in successfully transforming this community-based hospital into a Health Promoting Hospital by integrating the concept, values and standards of health promotion into its structure and culture, thereby creating a healthy setting and promoting the health and wellbeing of the hospital’s staff, its patients, and their relatives
ISSN:1757-9759
1757-9767
DOI:10.1177/1757975910363929