Health and the need for health promotion in hospital patients

Abstract

Nearly all patients included in this study had one or more health risk factors that could aggravate clinical outcomes. There is a significant need, and potential, for health-promoting interventions. Multi-factorial interventions may be frequently indicated and should be the subject of interventional studies.

Lifestyle factors in somatic patients with and without potential alcohol problems

“…As described in previous studies about the general population or patients admitted to hospitals, we found an association between smoking and heavy use of alcohol (Meader et al 2016;Oppedal et al 2010). We found an inverse association between hazardous drinking and being physically inactive, which is in agreement with other studies (Poortinga 2007;Schuit et al 2002).…”

Do alcohol-attributable diagnoses reflect current hazardous drinking patterns in Norwegian hospital patients?

“…This top 10 list was arranged as follows (in falling order); fall, collapse, head injury, assault, non-specific gastrointestinal problem, being unwell, psychiatric complain (including depression, overdose and confusion), cardiac complain (including palpitations and chest pain), self neglect, and repeated attendance (13). Our study does not evaluate whether such a list could be successful for Norwegian hospital patients characterised by a lower prevalence of hazardous drinkers compared to the UK (14,15).…”

Integration of health promotion in clinical hospital departments: standards fulfilment, documentation of needs and service delivery

“…However, when entering hospitals about 80-90% of patients have at least one risk factor, like smoking, excessive alcohol drinking, risk of malnutrition, overweight and physical inactivity, all of which can significantly reduce treatment outcome on short term and health gain on longer term (19)(20)(21)(22)(23). Nevertheless, it is possible to improve immediate outcome by adding HP services to patient pathways in surgery, internal medicine and psychiatry (4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12).…”