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Effects of a community health promotion program on social factors in a vulnerable older adult population residing in social housing

Abstract

BackgroundSupporting older adults’ health and wellbeing in the community is an important policy goal that can be supported by health promotion. Despite widespread acceptance of the biopsychosocial model of health and its relation to health, many health promotion programs fail to realize this model in program design. Further, there is limited evidence to support program design targeting social determinants of health such as social isolation or …

Authors

Agarwal G; Brydges M

Journal

BMC Geriatrics, Vol. 18, No. 1,

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

December 2018

DOI

10.1186/s12877-018-0764-9

ISSN

1471-2318