caa a22 4500 397547951 CHVBK 20180308164743.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199606 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/heapro/11.2.105 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/heapro/11.2.105 Finnish Healthy Village Study: impact and outcomes of a low-cost local health promotion programme [Elektronische Daten] [ESKO KUMPUSALO, LIISA NEITTAANMÄKI, PIRJO HALONEN, HEIKKI PEKKARINEN, ILKKA PENTTILÄ, MARKKU PARVIAINEN] In the Finnish Healthy Village Study, the basic health profiles of working-aged people (20-64 years) were characterized in four rural villages in 1986. After that, a 3-year health promotion programme (intervention) was carried out in two of these villages and in two additional villages, in collaboration with the local village governing boards, local primary health care centres, and adult education institutions. The additional two villages served as controls. Based on the outcome evaluation, the mean value of serum cholesterol decreased in the intervention villages from 6.89 to 6.23 mmol/l (10%) and in control villages from 6.41 to 6.02 mmol/l (6%). The mean proportion of HDL-cholesterol of the total increased 28% in the intervention villages and 21% in the control villages. The biggest improvement took place in mean plasma vitamin C concentrations. In the intervention villages, the mean value increased 53%, from 42.1 to 64.6 μmol/l and in the control villages 29%, from 43.5 to 56.3 μmol/l. A decrease in mean systolic blood pressure from 142 to 137 mmHg took place in the intervention villages and from 141 to 134 mmHg in the control villages. No decrease was achieved in mean diastolic blood pressures and body mass indices. The programme was cost-effective as far as nutritional risk factors were concerned. Changing physical exercise patterns of people in rural villages proved to be more difficult than changing dietary habits. © Oxford University Press Original Papers nationallicence cost-effectiveness nationallicence Finland nationallicence Healthy Village Study nationallicence low cost nationallicence KUMPUSALO ESKO Department of Community Health and General Practice, University of Kuopio Finland aut NEITTAANMÄKI LIISA Department of Community Health and General Practice, University of Kuopio Finland aut HALONEN PIRJO Computing Centre, University of Kuopio Finland aut PEKKARINEN HEIKKI Department of Physiology, University of Kuopio Finland aut PENTTILÄ ILKKA Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Kuopio Finland aut PARVIAINEN MARKKU Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Kuopio Finland aut Health Promotion International Oxford University Press 11/2(1996-06), 105-115 0957-4824 11:2<105 1996 11 heapro https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/11.2.105 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/11.2.105 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- KUMPUSALO ESKO Department of Community Health and General Practice, University of Kuopio Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- NEITTAANMÄKI LIISA Department of Community Health and General Practice, University of Kuopio Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- HALONEN PIRJO Computing Centre, University of Kuopio Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- PEKKARINEN HEIKKI Department of Physiology, University of Kuopio Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- PENTTILÄ ILKKA Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Kuopio Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- PARVIAINEN MARKKU Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Kuopio Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Health Promotion International Oxford University Press 11/2(1996-06), 105-115 0957-4824 11:2<105 1996 11 heapro Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 397547609 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford