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Lauren M. Sherk; Melissa MacKay; Jennifer E. McWhirter; Andrew Papadopoulos – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
Global public health events such as the COVID-19 pandemic create public awareness of the need for skilled public health graduates and public health graduate programs. Core Competencies for Public Health are tools that can guide graduate-level public health programs to ensure students are receiving the appropriate knowledge, tools and skills…
Descriptors: Public Health, Health Education, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students
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Erin Dancey; Heather Harrison; Michael Williams-Bell – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
At Durham College in September 2021, a new program of study was launched in Fitness and Health Promotion (FHP) that included an increased focus on health promotion and wellness curriculum. The current study investigated how perceived wellness, motivation, and self-directed learning measures change as students progress through the new FHP program…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, College Faculty, Health Promotion
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DiPlacito-DeRango, Maria Lucia – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2016
Despite marked improvements, intervention for students with a mental health problem or illness in Canadian higher education settings remains not yet successful, mature, or sustainable. A number of challenges have been identified as contributory to the shortcomings surrounding student mental health in colleges and universities. In this paper, I…
Descriptors: Barriers, Mental Health, Well Being, Mental Disorders
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Russell-Mayhew, Shelly; Nutter, Sarah; Alberga, Angela; Jelinski, Susan; Ball, Geoff D. C.; Edwards, Alun; Oddie, Scott; Sharma, Arya M.; Pickering, Barbara; Forhan, Mary – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2016
Negative attitudes and beliefs about individuals with obesity (also known as weight bias) have negative consequences for physical and mental health for individuals with obesity and impact the quality of care provided by health professionals. A preliminary environmental scan of college and university training programs was conducted consisting of 67…
Descriptors: Obesity, Social Attitudes, Negative Attitudes, College Programs