Health promotion in hospitals—a strategy to improve quality in health care
Open Access
- 1 February 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in European Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 15 (1), 6-8
- https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/cki100
Abstract
The International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH) was initiated more than 10 years ago with the aim to reorient health care institutions to integrate health promotion and education, disease prevention and rehabilitation services in the curative care.1 An increasing number of chronic patients, requiring continuous support, and hospital staff frequently being exposed to physical and emotional strains pushed in this direction.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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