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Health games (student’s paper)
Maciej Sawicki,
Member of Student Scientific Association at the Department of Health Promotion, Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, Jagiellonian University
St. Królowej Jadwigi 310/4, 30-218 Cracow, Poland,
maciej.saw@wp.pl, +48509616770.
Introduction: Games are a unique tool for health. When they are well designed to motivate health behavior change, they can improve players’ health.
Aim: The goal of the project is to advance the innovation and effectiveness of health games so that they help people improve their health-related behaviors. As a result they achieve significantly better health outcomes.
Methodology: Game has been analyzed taking into account the strategy to promote healthy lifestyle. A group of people representing different social groups have been surveyed using own questionnaire. Survey have been conducted before and after the group played the game.
Results: Results will be shown on a poster at the World Congress in Addis Ababa.
Conclusions: My project shows the board game. It is a fantastic tool to learn how to stay fit and healthy. It may change behaviors in such areas as healthy eating, physical activity, smoking cessation, asthma self-management, diabetes self-management etc. These studies demonstrate the vast impact and potential of health games.
The number of words: 162
Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will learn about impact and potential of health games. 2. Articulate health promotion in an innovative way through the games which can improve health behaviors. 3. Creating games aimed at health care and education to improve the health and quality of life.