Publications by authors named "H T Maindal"
Background: Loneliness is a public health concern associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Adverse health behaviours and a higher body mass index (BMI) have been proposed as key mechanisms influencing this association. The present study aims to examine the relationship between loneliness, adverse health behaviour and a higher BMI, including daily smoking, high alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, unhealthy dietary habits, and obesity in men and women and across different life stages.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) increases the risk of future type 2 diabetes (T2DM), but effective and feasible interventions to reduce this risk are lacking.
Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a family-based health promotion intervention on T2DM risk factors and quality of life among women with recent GDM.
Design: Multicenter, parallel, open-label randomized controlled trial with 2:1 allocation ratio.
Introduction: Both physical inactivity and loneliness are public health threats bringing huge costs to society and quality of life. The two health challenges often co-exist, suggesting physically inactive and lonely individuals to be a high-risk group. Health literacy as a concept is understood as a modifiable health determinant, and it has been proposed for promoting equity in future health promotion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArticle Synopsis
- - This study investigates how social support influences self-rated health among individuals with long-term health conditions and whether health literacy plays a mediating role in this relationship.
- - Data was analyzed from a survey involving over 10,000 participants, revealing that those with low social support faced significant challenges in understanding health information and engaging with healthcare providers.
- - The results indicate that improving health literacy, especially in engaging with healthcare systems, could enhance health outcomes for individuals with low social support, highlighting the need for strategic interventions.
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to rethink the concept of organizational culture as something that emerges bottom-up by using the sociological concepts of boundary object and boundary work as an analytical lens and to show how this approach can help understand and facilitate intersectoral coordination.
Design/methodology/approach: We used observations and qualitative interviews to develop "deep" knowledge about processes of intersectoral coordination. The study draws on a conceptual framework of "boundary work" and "boundary objects" to show how a bottom-up perspective on organizational culture can produce better understanding of and pave the way for intersectoral coordination.