This comment piece is based upon a theoretical review of the medical, mass gathering and social science literature relating to music festivals, as background to the author’s PhD study exploring voluntary risk and health in a music festival context
A six-week community wellness programme was conducted to promote weight loss and reduce obesity. Participants’ weight, blood pressure, waist circumference, body mass index, and finger-stick glucose were measured before and after the programme which included exercise, nutrition and diabetes prevention sessions. Initially, 189 men and women enrolled; 74 participants were included in the post-intervention data collection. Statistically significant results (p <0.001) indicated that women reduced weight (mean 3.31% ± 0.02%) and decreased waist circumference by 1.91552% ± 2.14454 inches. Men reduced weight significantly (mean 6.5% ± 0.44%) and decreased waist circumference (mean 3.14063 ± 3.04118 inches) (p<.001).
Jenny Manry, DNP, FNP, APRN-BC, Assistant Professor, Fort Hays State University
Jane Peterson, PhD, APRN, FAANP, Clinical Associate Professor, University of Missouri Kansas City
Article accepted for publication: February 2013
There are very few healthcare professionals who do not treat conditions caused by or exacerbated by smoking. Thirty years on from its initiation, No Smoking Day, this year on 13 March, is one of the United Kingdom’s (UK) longest running and most successful health campaigns to date. This article from the British Heart Foundation (BHF) outlines their work.
The health of the population is determined by a range of complex and interconnected influences, many of which, such as poverty, inequality, housing, education, employment, mobility, transport and pollution, fall outside a medical remit. In order for nurses and other healthcare professionals to tackle public health, they not only need to engage with individuals, families and communities, but should also have the ability to influence the design and development of services and understand the new relationships with local authorities and other agencies.
Jane DeVille-Almond, Independent Nurse Consultant/Chair of the British Obesity Society; Senior Lecturer at the University of
Wolverhampton.
Claire Rowley gives an overview of health visiting and the assessment of health need.
Claire Rowley RGN, RHV, CPT, BSc (Hons) is a Health Visitor at Airedale Primary Care Trust, Yorkshire. Article accepted for publication: April 2005
Trish Bell examines how alternative practice placements progressed through different stages
Trish Bell RGN, RN (Child) wrote this article whilst studying for the Community Specialist Practitioner Award in Children's Nursing. Article accepted for publication: May 2005
Heather Stringer describes an innovative project to enhance family health issues in line with the Government health agenda.
Heather Stringer MSc, BA, RGN, RM, RSCN, RHV, Grad. Cert. Ed. PGDip. is a Public Health Visitor with Health On The Streets Team, North Bradford Primary Care Trust.
Article accepted for publication: January 2006
Beverley Chiodo gives an overview of osteoporosis and some helpful pointers for bone health
Beverley Chiodo, BA Hons, RGN is a Freelance Health Writer, West Yorkshire
Article accepted for publication: December 2006
Fiona Rutter describes a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to public health work in residential homes
Fiona Rutter, RGN, SEN, Diploma in District Nursing is a District Nurse at Bidford On Avon Health Centre. South Warwickshire PCT
Article accepted for publication: September 2007
