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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

How does dementia stigma influence help-seeking? This Australian study explores how stigma, previous experiences, and demographic factors shape intentions to seek help for dementia, highlighting important considerations for future health promotion campaigns. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Marita Hennessy @maritahennessy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Forty Years of the Ottawa Charter. Why Healthy Public Policy Still Matters for Health Equity in Australia Carmel Williams, @docsamantha.bsky.social @healthpromint.bsky.social, Luke Wolfendon, Don Nutbeam onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Forty Years of the Ottawa Charter. Why Healthy Public Policy Still Matters for Health Equity in Australia

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Gabriel Caluzzi @gabrielcaluzzi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What role do commercial actors and structures play in contributing to sexual violence in live music venues? Our new article in @healthpromint.bsky.social explores this. Written with Felicity Wardle, @sezcliff.bsky.social, Ruth Canty & Cassandra Wright. doi.org/10.1093/heap...

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Exploring the role of commercial actors and structures in contributing to sexual violence in live music venues

Abstract. Sexual violence is a significant public health issue, and increasing attention has focused on sexual violence in live music venues, particularly

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How do commercial forces shape physical activity? This paper introduces a new typology exploring commercial influences across physical activity, from sport sponsorship and screen time to the fitness industry and research. Read the full paper in HPI here: academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can football reach men who may be missed by conventional health promotion? This study explores how football culture can create familiar, inclusive spaces that support men’s engagement, health, and social connection. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What does unstable funding mean for the health promotion workforce? This study explores how short-term funding cycles and funding shortages affect practitioners’ wellbeing, job security, and the sustainability of prevention programs. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What supports meaningful co-creation with young people? This study explores co-creation with adolescents across four countries, highlighting the importance of trust, supportive relationships, resources, and approaches that respond to local contexts. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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DTH Lab @dthlab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚸 Litigation can force disclosure and impose real costs, but it cannot replace proactive regulation. Read DTH-Lab's article published on @healthpromint.bsky.social on #Meta’s recent settlement on addictive social media design: tr.ee/1edNvh

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How well is lived and living experience integrated into suicide prevention decision-making? This study highlights the need to recognise lived and living experience knowledge as a legitimate and integral form of evidence. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What do children’s sports clubs really gain from food company sponsorship? This study finds that children are exposed to food advertising through sports sponsorship, while the financial benefits to clubs are often minimal. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How can public health better respond to industry communication tactics? This paper presents a practical communication playbook to help health promotion move from reactive responses to proactively shaping public narratives. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

How does gambling become normalised for young people? This review explores the role of families, peers, advertising, sport, and digital platforms, as well as what young people say needs to change. Read the latest paper in Health Promotion International. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

How can we rethink education in pain medicine? This paper proposes a new framework that moves beyond symptom management to focus on recovery, participation, resilience, and person-centred care. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What helps people stick with Couch to 5k? This study explores participants’ experiences of completing a modified Couch to 5k program and highlights the role of social support, structure, and group-based participation. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

How does suicide bereavement affect men and women? This study highlights the mental health impacts of suicide bereavement and the important role of social support. Read the latest paper in Health Promotion International academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Are we asking health literacy to explain too much? This paper introduces the concept of ‘health literacy reductionism’ and challenges the tendency to frame complex health communication problems as individual health literacy deficits. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

How well are the commercial determinants of health being translated into Australian policy? This study examines public health and health promotion policies across Australia, finding growing recognition, but limited regulatory action. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How can local parks support older adults to be more active? This study explores the scale-up of Seniors Exercise Parks across Victoria and highlights what supports successful implementation in local communities. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

How can schools better support young people to get active? This study explores a peer-led physical activity program in Irish secondary schools and highlights the importance of flexibility and implementation support. Read the latest paper here in HPI: academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

COVID-19 vaccine uptake was high in Indigenous communities in Northwest Territories, Canada, although concerns about safety, effectiveness, and trust in government remained. This study highlights the importance of culturally safe communication and equitable access. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This case study demonstrates how community-led action and cross-sector partnerships can reduce health inequalities and strengthen local wellbeing. Read the latest paper in Health Promotion International. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Forty years after the Ottawa Charter, how are Australian health systems putting health equity into practice? This scoping review examines health equity frameworks and proposes a new model to help translate equity commitments into action. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Who holds power in food policy, and how do we study it? This scoping review examines the methods researchers use to investigate power and highlights opportunities to strengthen future research. Read the full paper here: academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Food insecurity cannot be solved by emergency food relief alone. This perspective argues that stronger social welfare policies are essential to ensure everyone can afford a healthy diet. Read the full paper here: academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This qualitative study explores the lived experiences of COVID-19 survivors in South Africa, revealing important gaps in psychosocial support and health system preparedness. Read the paper in Health Promotion International. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Young people with intellectual disability have diverse health literacy strengths and support needs. This study centres their perspectives and highlights the importance of tailored health promotion strategies. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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DTH Lab @dthlab.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In a new article published in @healthpromint.bsky.social Kanika Agarwal and @louiseholly.bsky.social explore how digital technologies are influencing our food choices, food systems and access to nutrition information. Read: tr.ee/exjdgi

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Men are often underrepresented in community physical activity programmes. This study explores what helps, and what hinders, their engagement in walking groups. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Aboriginal women shared how caregiving responsibilities, systemic barriers, and everyday life shape their heart health. This paper highlights the need for culturally grounded, Aboriginal-led approaches to improve cardiovascular health. Read the latest paper academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Mental health is often overlooked in hypertension care. This paper explores what healthcare providers say is needed to successfully integrate mental illness screening into routine care. Read the full paper here: academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Building healthy habits through health literacy in early childhood! Check out this important new paper on supporting health literacy in early childhood education settings academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Lived experience leadership is vital in health promotion research and service provision! Check out this new paper in Health Promotion International here: academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Health promotion works best when it reflects local food cultures and communities Check out this new paper in Health Promotion International: academic.oup.com/heapro/article/41/4/daag085/8723212?searchresult=1

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Prof Samantha Thomas @docsamantha.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Absolutely thrilled to share that @healthpromint.bsky.social Impact Factor has increased from 2.4 to 3.6. A huge thank you to our authors, reviewers, editorial team, and the wider health promotion community. It’s wonderful recognition of the outstanding scholarship being published in the journal 🎉

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

🔔 NEW Quick response codes in the breakfast cereal aisle: prevalence, landing page, and product characteristics ✍️ Laura Bathie, Maria Camille Louise Chen, Amy Leahy, Bella Sträuli, Simone Pettigrew, Eden M Barrett OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag044

"Our study found that around one in six breakfast cereals available in Australia in 2024 featured a QR code, typically on the back of the pack and mainly used to provide additional marketing material to consumers. As the trend towards digital labelling continues to gain momentum, regulatory oversight is warranted. Such oversight should prioritize access to key nutrition information and ensure the accuracy of digital information to protect consumer rights and prevent them from being misled."

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🔔 ICYMI Health literacy and digital health literacy profiles of final year Health and Physical Education pre-service teachers: a cross-sectional case study ✍️ Louisa R Peralta, Cassidy Kealy-Ashby, Rebecca Pagano, Vaughan Cruickshank OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag015

“As digital technologies become increasingly embedded in education and daily life, there is a growing need for initial teacher education programmes and professional development to prioritize digital health literacy. Supporting teachers to confidently navigate, evaluate, and teach digital health concepts will be essential for preparing students to make informed health decisions in a rapidly evolving educational and digital landscape.”

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

🔔 ICYMI “Help young women to survive”: the cost-of-living crisis and the well-being of younger Australian women ✍️ Simone McCarthy, Hannah Pitt, Grace Arnot, Vicki Brown, Lisa Gold, Samantha Thomas OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf228

“Our findings suggest that understanding the lived experiences of younger women—including how the impacts of economic pressures and austerity policies are socially constructed and situated—are important in informing gender-responsive policies and help to address structural inequalities. Without such efforts, there is a risk that existing health and economic inequities for younger women will continue to deepen, with long-term consequences for individual and societal well-being.”

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

🔔 ICYMI! Implementing a school-based mental health literacy programme for adolescents: barriers, facilitators and preliminary outcomes OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf236

“Quantitative student outcomes supported qualitative findings on intervention barriers and facilitators, suggesting that the hands-on, immersive approach enhanced student learning. Building on this strength, future iterations of the programme could expand Virtual Reality use to additional mental health topics to further enhance learning. Despite certain barriers, student outcomes were positive post-programme, suggesting inherent strengths that supported the programme’s potential effectiveness.”

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

🔔 NEW Cultural and linguistic appropriateness of the HLS19-Q12 health literacy scale items among people in Norway with a Somali background ✍️ Kathrine Krüger Østbøll, Øystein Guttersrud, Falastin Alasoow, Christopher Le, Josefin Wångdahl, Hanne Søberg Finbråten OA doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag040

“To address our aim, the scale items cannot be seen as culturally or linguistically appropriate for the informants from a psychometric quantitative, cross-cultural cognitive interviews qualitative or a mixed methods analyses perspective. This emphasizes the importance of evaluating and examining the results of cross-cultural health literacy studies in journals and research milieus and to a much greater extend involve the target groups in the pretesting phase.”

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

🔔 NEW Unpacking the early implementation of social prescribing in Swedish primary care: a theory-informed process evaluation ✍️ Frida Jonsson, Emilia W E Viklund, Frida Degerstedt, Anna Sofia Lundgren, Ingeborg Nilsson OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag041

Through a continued process of adapting the approach and developing targeted implementation strategies, this will require clearer guidance for high-fidelity delivery, stronger organizational support, and improved structures that connect primary care with local community resources. Together, these refinements could allow social prescribing to become a meaningful and sustainable part of Swedish primary care, consistent with national health system reforms and concerns about loneliness as a pressing problem.

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

🔔 NEW Creating health-promoting spaces for change within the economy: the role of food co-operatives in England ✍️ Amy Barnes, Maddy Power, Kelli Kennedy OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag038

Realizing the public health potential of co-ops will require more than localized resilience. It necessitates a global commitment to structural political and financial support to develop diverse cooperative ecosystems, to allow these ‘pockets of possibility’ to scale out principles of democracy, control, and solidarity across the globe and food system.

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

🔔 NEW How participation in health promotion affects peer-experts and experts-by-experience from vulnerable neighborhoods: a case study from The Netherlands ✍️ Samantha Elkhuizen, Bente van Aken, Emma Stulen, Dagmar Niewold, Annemarie Wagemakers, Kristina Thompson doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag035

By fostering connection, recognition, personal growth, and skill development, the roles of peer-experts and experts-by-experience can contribute to empowerment, social inclusion, and improved socioeconomic prospects, which can be regarded as key social determinants of health. At the same time, the identified challenges underscore that the effectiveness and sustainability of peer-based health promotion depends on adequate organizational support.

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

🔔 NEW Pai te moe, pai te ora: exploring the sociocultural practice of sleep in Aotearoa New Zealand through Māori media ✍️ Deanna Haami, Zoe Pullman, Rosemary Gibson, Natasha Tassell-Matamua OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag034

Though the oral traditions that were once present across all dimensions of Māori lived reality may not be as prevalent or accessible as they once were, the foundational Mātauranga Māori understanding of sleep continues to be transmitted intergenerationally. This research has essentially provided the foundation for the continued reclamation and re-privileging of this knowledge, as well as highlighting the importance of ensuring continued critical reflexivity and decolonial education for those who work within health promotion and are responsible for the creation and dissemination of health messaging.

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Mike Daube @mikedaube.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Good (albeit disturbing) paper reinforcing concerns about absence of controls on harmful industries targeting youth through social media.

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

🔔 NEW Evading regulation: young people’s exposure to harmful commodity marketing in the social media feeds of their favourite influencers ✍️ Antonia C Lyons, Ian Goodwin, Jessica Young, Cassandra Burton-Wood OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag037

We echo others who call for multisectoral action and policy responses from governments, as well as social media and other Big Tech companies. Platforms should be required to be fully transparent regarding marketing exposure metrics and remove content that is in breach of the law. We also call for tighter regulation of influencer marketing to protect minors and for penalties to be enforced when influencers fail to disclose promotion of harmful commodities.

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Mike Daube @mikedaube.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Important issue that merits further attention.

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

🔔 NEW Youth washing as a corporate social responsibility tactic of health-harming industries ✍️ Sally Witchalls, Hannah Pitt, Simone McCarthy, Becky Freeman, Samantha Thomas OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag018

Understanding how a range of stakeholder types use youth washing and for what purpose will help build a more comprehensive framework. This will also help youth, as well as educators, youth workers, and policymakers to identify and critically examine youth-focused corporate social responsibility tactics and to distinguish these from any genuine forms of youth engagement and support.

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

🔔 NEW Valuing Australian parent preferences for community-based nutrition and physical activity initiatives: a discrete choice experiment ✍️ Nicole Ward, Thao Thai, Melanie Nichols, Marj Moodie, Kim Robinson, Vicki Brown OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag033

“This information can assist to ensure community-based obesity prevention interventions are designed to generate maximum parent acceptability, support, and engagement. The preference of including climate change in community-based obesity prevention interventions may assist to simultaneously promote and address two of the greatest public health concerns, obesity and climate change.”

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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

🔔 NEW The value of health literacy for Global Health and One Health: nurturing the socioecological environment of schools ✍️ Orkan Okan, Andrea S Winkler OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag036

"Taking into account the convergence of human, animal, and environmental factors, the Ottawa Charter's mandate to implement a ‘new public health’ is being revived. Long-term investment in health literacy will support the agendas of Global Health and One Health and contribute to tackling challenges across the health spectrum in this age of new public health."

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