We support to make attractive, healthy, and happy society (city/town, hospital,
company, school settings) from the aspects of planning, implementation,
and evaluation.
Cities / Towns |
Hospitals (& Nursing Homes) |
We have activities in
・Advising in planning, support in implementation,
and evaluation for the local governments
(mostly Department of Health)
・Support local governments in planning,
implementation, and evaluation for health
promotion projects such as Health Up Model
projects, Specialized Health Education Project,
or other national level projects issued from Ministry
of Health and Labour
・Giving lectures to promote local organizations |
How can we make the environment of hospitals
and nursing homes from "I wish I were in a
different place" to "I wish I want to stay here forever!"?
In order to seek for answers of this question,
we will support your hospital or nursing home to
make fun and trusting place, including introducing
CliniClowns (clowns in hospitals). We support you
by doing research on the effects of healthy and
happy hospital environments on patients and their
families, on medical staffs, and on community;
by doing research on the relationship between
hospital environments and medical lawsuit;
and by consulting.
EBINA is one of the members who established
Japan CliniClown Association and has done research
in the effects of CliniClown for children who have cancer
since 2005.
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Companies |
Schools |
How can we make environments in which
the employees passionately work with pleasures,
and increase their productivities?
In order to seek for answers in this question,
we support you by consulting from
health sociological perspectives and organizational communication's
perspectives.
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How we can empower kids?
We now make curriculums for total education for
elementary schools and junior high schools and
provide lectures for students, their parents,
and teachers.
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Presented the results of one of the health promotion projects at the 19th
IUHPE World Conference.
TITLE: THE EFFECTS OF THE HEALTH PROMOTION AND EDUCATION PROGRAM COMBINED WITH
THE HEALTH COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES IN YANAHARA COMMUNITY
Presenters: Ryoko Ebina, Global Health Communications
Mayumi
Murashima, Town of Misaki
Toshiaki Kato, University of Tottori
Norio Shimanouchi, Juntendo University
PURPOSE:
Yanahara community implemented the 3-year national model project in order
to develop the health promotion and education program that prevents lifestyle
related diseases effectively since 2004. The purpose of this presentation is to show the effects of the health promotion
and education program focusing on exercise and healthy diet, combined with
health communication strategies that applied theories in behavior science
and psychology.
METHOD:
The data was collected by 80 subjects, who were the insured, 40 to 69 years
old, and had high risk factors that develop lifestyle related diseases
but not yet under the medication. Those subjects were divided into two groups;
the intervention group that was provided the monthly program with the health
communication strategies, and the control group that was provided the same program
without them. Process evaluations that used the graph showing emotional ups and downs
and in-depth interviews were conducted not only to improve the intervention
program, but also to compare perceived happiness during the class and everyday
life of the groups. All subjects were assessed Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP), Diastolic Blood Pressure (DBP), Total Cholesterol (TC), High Density Lipoprotein) HDL cholesterol , Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, Triglycerides, Fasting Blood Sugar (FBS), HbAlc, and BMI at baseline and every 6 months. The physical conditions were examined with ANOVA.
RESULTS:
Significant effects on physical conditions were found on two measures (DBP,
HDL) after 6 months, five measures (DBP, TC, LDL, FBS, HbA1c) after 12 months, three measures (HDL, LDL, HbA1c) after 18 months in the intervention
group. The
intervention group used lower annual individual medical costs through the years,
had higher perceived happiness in both during the class and everyday life, and
the dropout rate was lower.
CONCLUSION:
Theparticipants in the intervention group went through the empowerment
processes. At the 1st year, they increased their health knowledge and cognitions,
and expanded their concepts of health; the 2nd year, they used their knowledge
of health behaviors in everyday life and started to consider other participants
as same community members; and the 3rd year, they used their knowledge
with others coluntary in order to make health promotion movement.
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