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Direct linkSzucs, Leigh E.; Barrios, Lisa C.; Young, Emily; Robin, Leah; Hunt, Pete; Jayne, Paula E. – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: School health education, including sexual health education, plays a crucial role in shaping adolescents' protective health behaviors, experiences, and outcomes. Adolescents need functional knowledge and skills to practice, adopt, and maintain healthy behaviors for preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including human…
Descriptors: Health Education, Sex Education, Health Behavior, Adolescents
Davis, Sally M.; Sanders, Sarah G.; FitzGerald, Courtney A.; Keane, Patricia C.; Canaca, Glenda F.; Volker-Rector, Renee – Journal of School Health, 2013
Background: Obesity is a major concern among American Indians and Hispanics. The Child Health Initiative for Lifelong Eating and Exercise (CHILE) is an evidence-based intervention to prevent obesity in children enrolled in 16 Head Start (HS) Centers in rural communities. The design and implementation of CHILE are described. Methods: CHILE uses a…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Health Promotion, Child Health, Obesity
Peer reviewedPentz, Mary Ann; And Others – Journal of School Health, 1986
An ongoing multiple community drug abuse prevention project is used to illustrate the process of community-based programming. Program support, quality control, and accommodation of both program and research objectives are emphasized. (Author/MT)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Drug Abuse, Prevention
Peer reviewedDelatte, Joseph G.; And Others – Journal of School Health, 1985
An interdisciplinary intervention program for adolescent parents and expectant parents combined educational and counseling efforts within a regular school setting to provide information, support, and opportunity for personal growth. Program organization and implementation and implications for health professionals are discussed. (Author/DF)
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, High Schools, Intervention, Parent Education
Peer reviewedSimons-Morton, Bruce G.; And Others – Journal of School Health, 1984
Classroom instruction, parent outreach, and media campaigns were strategies used by the Great Sensations program, designed to teach high school students good snacking habits. The program focused on salt and high blood pressure. Program design and results are discussed. (Author/DF)
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Educational Strategies, Health Education, High Schools
Peer reviewedSailors, Emma Lou – Journal of School Health, 1983
"Hypertension Alert," a 1979-80 blood pressure screening-awareness project of the Yonkers, New York Public Schools, is described. Data is analyzed in tables for ethnic composition, and range of blood pressure readings for the high school, junior high school, and elementary school students tested. (Author/JMK)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Health Education, Health Programs, Hypertension
A Qualitative Evaluation of the Students of Service (SOS) Program for Sexual Abstinence in Louisiana
Peer reviewedYoo, Seunghyun; Johnson, Carolyn C.; Rice, Janet; Manuel, Powlin – Journal of School Health, 2004
Abstinence-only programs for preventing teen pregnancy are the only options in some states but are the programs of choice in others. Effectiveness data, however, are lacking. The SOS Adolescent Family Life Program (SOS), an abstinence-only teen pregnancy prevention program, was implemented in south central Louisiana. Peer mentoring with an…
Descriptors: Prevention, Educational Change, Sexuality, Mentors
Marx, Eva; Hudson, Nancy; Deal, Tami B.; Pateman, Beth; Middleton, Kathleen – Journal of School Health, 2007
Background: The Council of Chief State School Officers' State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards Health Education Assessment Project (SCASS-HEAP) allows states to pool financial and human resources to develop effective ready-to-use health education assessment resources through a collaborative process. The purpose of this article is…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Systems Approach, State Departments of Education, Health Education
Peer reviewedBode, Paula; And Others – Journal of School Health, 1980
An antismoking program for elementary schools, using a mannikin of a thirteen-year-old boy in a skit with a doctor, reveals some of the side effects of smoking, including shortness of breath, bad breath, stained teeth and fillings, and the inability to properly taste and smell. (JMF)
Descriptors: Assembly Programs, Attitude Change, Demonstrations (Educational), Dental Health
Peer reviewedKirby, Douglas – Journal of School Health, 1992
Article reviews the major school-based approaches implemented during the last two decades to reduce sexual risk-taking behaviors, examining their evidence for success and providing recommendations for effective programs and program evaluations. The article focuses on programs that educators believed would reduce unprotected sex. (SM)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Contraception, Curriculum Development
Peer reviewedDrott, Patricia M. – Journal of School Health, 2001
Describes one elementary school's experience utilizing undergraduate nursing students as an alternative resource for providing health education. Nursing students observed in the classroom, prepared teaching plans, and presented topics. Participants reported that the experience was effective in relation to the levels of achievement attained by…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Comprehensive School Health Education, Educational Methods, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedNader, Philip R.; Rissel, Chris; Rowling, Louise; Marshall, Bernard J.; Sheehan, Margaret M.; Northfield, Jeff R.; Maher, Shelley; Carlisle, Rachel; St. Leger, Lawrence H.; Stewart, Donald E.; Parker, Elizabeth; Gillespie, Amaya; Stokes, Helen; Mukherjee, Dev; Nutbeam, Don; Mitchell, Anne; Ollis, Debbie; Watson, Jan – Journal of School Health, 2000
Eight papers on Australia's school health programs discuss: creating health promoting schools in the United States; intersectoral collaboration for developing a national framework for health promoting schools; school-based health promotion nationwide; auditing health promoting schools policy documentation; the nature of health service/school…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Child Health, Comprehensive School Health Education, Elementary Secondary Education
