Asian Perspectives and Evidence on Health Promotion and Education

1. Front Matter

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2. Asian Ideas and Activities on Health Promotion and Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Asian Ideas on Health Promotion and Education from Historical Perspectives of the Theory of Yojo as an Interface of Health, Self, and Society

      • Toshiyuki Takizawa

      Pages 3-12

   3. Developing the Curriculum and Instruction Model for Suicide Prevention and Life Education in Taiwan

      • Ya-Wen Huang, Po-San Wang, Chia-Chia Lin

      Pages 13-20

   4. The Yogo Teacher, the Health Room, and Health Education at School in Japan

      • Kanako Okada

      Pages 21-30

   5. New Strategy on Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Lifestyle-Related Diseases Focusing on Metabolic Syndrome in Japan

      • Shunsaku Mizushima, Kazuyo Tsushita

      Pages 31-39

   6. Sensory Awakening as a New Approach to Health Promotion

      • Masaki Moriyama

      Pages 40-49

   7. Health Promotion and Education in Thailand in Comparison with the Japanese Health Care System and Health Informatics

      • Masami Matsuda, Khanitta Nuntaboot, Katsumasa Ota, Shoichiro Hara

      Pages 50-66

   8. Development of a Robot-Assisted Activity Program for Elderly People Incorporating Reading Aloud and Arithmetic Calculation

      • Yukio Oida, Masayoshi Kanoh, Masashi Inagaki, Yoko Konagaya, Kenji Kimura

      Pages 67-77

   9. Health Promotion for Cancer Survivors: New Paradigm Beyond Prevention and Treatment

      • Miyako Takahashi

      Pages 78-86

   10. Alternative Medicine and Health Promotion

       • Shinko Ichinohe

       Pages 87-98

3. Asian Perspectives on Health Promotion and Education

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Key Players in Health Promotion Policy in the Northern Part of the Western Pacific

      • Toshitaka Nakahara

      Pages 101-105

   3. Community-Based Participatory Research: A Promising Approach to Address Social Determinants of Health

      • Seunghyun Yoo

      Pages 106-117

   4. Toward Development of Intervention Methods for Strengthening the Sense of Coherence: Suggestions from Japan

      • Yoshihiko Yamazaki, Taisuke Togari, Junko Sakano

      Pages 118-132

   5. Social Capital and Population Approach

      • Toshiyuki Ojima

      Pages 133-140

   6. Health Promotion and Healthy City Projects in Korea

      • Eun Woo Nam

      Pages 141-154

   7. A Network of Healthy Cities in Asia and the Pacific: The Alliance for Healthy Cities

      • Keiko Nakamura

      Pages 155-161

   8. Empowerment in Health and Community Settings

      • Tokie Anme, Mary E. McCall

      Pages 162-172

   9. Health Communication

      • Yoshiharu Fukuda, Ryoko Ebina

      Pages 173-181

Globalization and information technology have caused many health problems: mental health issues like depression, and lifestyle-related disease like diabetes and obesity. To cope with these health issues, health promotion and education are desperately needed. Convincing policy decision makers to invest in health promotion and education programs, it is needed to show its effectiveness. Health promotion and education professionals are expected to construct evidence of health promotion and education. Most of such evidence has been produced in the US and European countries. Because socio-economic conditions differ between the Asia and Western countries, we cannot depend on such evidence to implement adequate health promotion and education in our region. We must produce and accumulate our own evidence based on Asian perspectives.

• community health
• community health
• health education
• health education
• health promotion
• health promotion
• occupational health
• occupational health
• public health
• public health

• Department of Public Health, Dokkyo Medical University School of Medicine, Shimotsuga-gun, Japan

  Takashi Muto

• Department of Public Health and International Health, Graduate School of Medicine Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Japan

  Toshitaka Nakahara

• Healthy City Research Center Institute of Health and Welfare, Yonsei University, Wounju-si, Republic of Korea

  Eun Woo Nam

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