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‘Wicked’ health issues and problems have recently become recognisable terms within the health promotion and health-related literature. Van Beurden and colleague suggest that they are providing an...
04 April 2018 5,400 2 View
As part of a recent (unrelated) thread to a question I asked, a perceptive colleague answered as quoted below: "I'd hesitate to label anyone a "crackpot" without a precise definition of the...
06 June 2014 7,336 5 View
Part of the problem of delineating health promotion from health education; community health from population health; public health from health policy etc is that the terms are used interchangeably...
05 May 2014 752 19 View
Health care and health service priorities are complex - particularly at the global level. Different countries and different communities (national and international) have different resources,...
04 April 2014 5,366 4 View
We've had smoking, STDs/AIDs, obesity etc as the 'next' or current global health epidemic. What might be the next one - either currently simmering away in the background - or a new one just around...
04 April 2014 9,701 47 View
I've argued for over a decade now that it is 'essential' that the terms health promotion and health education are delineated and separated out. Many health practitioners use the terms...
02 February 2014 3,566 100 View
Many allude to the 'glass ceiling' effect when it comes to submitting articles in academic journals. For many, it is an 'imaginary' barrier that prevents submission of their manuscripts. Authors...
12 December 2013 855 13 View
Now that PhD's are becoming more commonplace, and that there are increasingly more routes to obtain one e.g. traditional, educational (taught), professional (clinical), PhD by...
11 November 2013 3,256 88 View
I asked a question a little while ago about 'is there the prefect journal article'? This was after a recent 'unique' experience where a research article that I submitted was accepted by all three...
11 November 2013 1,514 18 View
Recently, I've had an article accepted by a 'good' quality established journal - where the three reviewers have all said 'accept with no revisions required'. This is the first time this has...
10 October 2013 9,448 33 View
I've edited several text books, with new editions, with colleagues who feel the same as me. The overall content change should be at least 30% - otherwise it's not really a new edition - especially...
08 August 2013 4,931 9 View
Recently, I have been approached by a colleague who wishes to develop a 'health communication' programme. It's not a term that I have come across many times before. Given it's very broad remit -...
08 August 2013 6,685 53 View
Hi all, I check the recommended 'new' questions section of RG on a regular basis. It can mean a lot of scrolling before I get to a question that catches my eye that I feel I can contribute to and...
01 January 1970 585 3 View
Hi all, This week, my ResearchGate score dropped from 238 to 232 (a big drop of 6 points) - even though I have been no less active than I have ever been - and my score usually increases by a point...
01 January 1970 9,143 31 View
