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Public Health Promotion

Public health promotion is the field of theory and practice concerned with enabling individuals, communities, and societies to increase control over and improve their health. It combines the identification of health problems and risk factors with the design of policies, programmes, and environmental and behavioural …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 47× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2641-4538 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Public health promotion is the field of theory and practice concerned with enabling individuals, communities, and societies to increase control over and improve their health. It combines the identification of health problems and risk factors with the design of policies, programmes, and environmental and behavioural strategies that prevent disease and disability and foster healthy living. Drawing on behaviour-change theory, social marketing, community mobilisation, and the settings approach, health promotion works across clinical encounters, schools, workplaces, and whole communities, and addresses the upstream conditions that shape behaviour. Methods include health education and communication, capacity building, advocacy, and the integration of promotive messaging into routine care, alongside evaluation of knowledge, attitudes, and behavioural outcomes. Substantive areas span tobacco control, cardiovascular risk reduction, healthy ageing, maternal and child health, environmental and waterborne-disease awareness, and the ethical dimensions of intervention, including emerging questions around artificial intelligence and indigenous ethical frameworks. Much applied work centres on low- and middle-income and underserved populations, where promotion must be tailored to context, literacy, and trust. Public Health International publishes peer-reviewed research engaging these themes, including tobacco-control roadmaps, health-promotion communication techniques in routine examinations, healthy ageing, cardiovascular knowledge and practice, community needs assessment, maternal and child health promotion, and health ethics, reflecting promotion as a proactive complement to disease treatment within population health.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

The Health of Older People in Switzerland

P ChastonayCorresponding author
Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Public Health International Cited by 12 doi:10.14302/issn.2641-4538.jphi-18-2426
2017

Ethics and Health

Mango LucioCorresponding author
Nuclear Medicine, S. Camillo-Forlanini General Hospital, Rome – Italy
Public Health International Cited by 4 doi:10.14302/issn.2641-4538.jphi-17-1839

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 47 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Public Health International (ISSN 2641-4538).

Journal editorial board
Javad Javan-Noughabi · United Kingdom Evelyn O Talbott · United States Zainab Taha · United Arab Emirates

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