Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jan 25, 2026

Author Spotlight: Using Hyperpolarized Xenon-129 MRI to Study Lung Diseases
Published on: January 5, 2024
BeWell: quality assurance health promotion pilot
Linda A Piwowarczyk1, Fernando Ona2
1Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Purpose:
The purpose of this paper is to determine the experience participating in a health promotion program for refugee and asylum seekers and torture survivors in a safety net clinical setting.
Design/Methodology/Approach:
Refugee and asylum seeker torture survivors participated in a seven-week health promotion program at a safety-net clinic. Participants interviewed before, during and after the program was designed to improve and maintain health promotion program quality.
Findings:
Six major themes emerged: social networks; tools/techniques/skills; wellness planning; spiritualism; health maintenance; and social/group interaction. Preliminary results suggest that this multi-pronged approach is feasible and acceptable to foreign-born torture survivors.
Research Limitations/Implications:
Torture impacts many facets of one's life. A program which addresses health from a multidisciplinary perspective has promise to facilitate healing.
Practical Implications:
The impact of torture and human rights violations significantly affects many facets of peoples' lives including emotional, social, physical and spiritual dimensions. Therefore a program which utilizes a multidisciplinary integrated bio-psychosocial and spiritual approach has the potential to simultaneously address many domains facilitating healing.
Originality/Value:
BeWell, a bio-psychosocio-spiritual health promotion strategy aimed at improving health service quality and increasing patient satisfaction to support positive health outcomes by implementing in-classroom/person modules for patients, to the authors' knowledge is unique in its efforts to encompass multiple domains simultaneously and fully integrate an approach to wellbeing.
More Related Videos
Related Concept Videos
Quality Assurance
Models of Health Promotion and Illness Prevention II
The agent-host-environment model states that disease results...
Levels of Health Promotion and Illness Prevention
In primary prevention, actions taken before disease onset prevent the disease from...
Models of Health Promotion and Illness Prevention I
The health belief model (HBM) attempts to predict health-related behavior in specific belief patterns. According to the HBM, a person's...
Pilot and Numeric Relaying
The Eukaryotic Promoter Region

