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Driessen-Willems, Marion; Severens, Floor; Darlington, Emily; Bartelink, Nina; Kremers, Stef; van Assema, Patricia; Bessems, Kathelijne – Health Education, 2023
Purpose: Adapting the Health Promotion School (HPS) approach to context specifics is acknowledged as being essential for implementation and achieving optimal effectiveness. This study aims to explore implementation variations on seven HPS spectra (such as top-down to bottom-up involvement of stakeholders) on which implementation of the HPS…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Health Promotion, Foreign Countries, Health Education
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Morteza Abdullatif Khafaie; Narges Mobasheri; Mahin Kheirollahi; Leila Ghahremani – Health Education, 2025
Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of a PRECEDE model-based educational program in enhancing awareness, attitudes and preventive behaviors against diabetes complications among rural patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Design/methodology/approach: This quasi-experimental study included 160 T2DM patients from rural health centers in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Health Facilities, Diabetes
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Hahnraths, Marla T. H.; Willeboordse, Maartje; van Schayck, Onno C. P. – Health Education, 2023
Purpose: To gain insight into factors enhancing or obstructing implementation in various school-settings, which is vital for widespread dissemination and sustainable integration of school-based health-promoting interventions. Design/methodology/approach: A mixed methods multisite comparative case study to investigate (factors influencing) the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Promotion, Elementary Schools, Intervention
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Heni Trisnowati; Abdillah Ahsan; Elisabeth Kramer – Health Education, 2024
Purpose: This paper describes the planning and implementation program of Remaja Berdaya Sehat Tanpa Rokok (JayaStar) or Empower Youth Healthy without Smoking (EYHWS). This is a pilot tobacco control program for smoking behavior with a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach in a rural area of Indonesia. Design/methodology/approach:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Smoking, Health Promotion
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Kwatubana, Siphokazi; Nhlapo, Velaphi Aaron; Moteetee, Nomsa – Health Education, 2022
Purpose: School principals are presumed to be pillars of school health promotion implementation. Their understanding of their role could enhance school health promotion. This study aims to investigate how principals understood their role in school health promotion. Design/methodology/approach: In this study, semi-structured interviews were…
Descriptors: Principals, Foreign Countries, Administrator Attitudes, Professional Development
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Markham, Wolfgang A. – Health Education, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to extend a theory of health promoting schools (Markham and Aveyard, 2003) that draws heavily upon Nussbaum's Aristotelian interpretation of good human functioning (Nussbaum, 1990). This theory of health promoting schools proposed that health is grounded in the meeting of identified fundamental human needs and…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Public Health, Program Development, Program Implementation
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Gerjanne Vennegoor; Patricia van Assema; Gerard R. M. Molleman; Pepijn van Empelen; Maria W. J. Jansen – Health Education, 2025
Purpose: Contextual factors can influence the implementation of whole-school health promotion and compromise its impact among students. This study aimed to identify key (combinations of) contextual factors in the implementation of whole-school health promotion at Dutch primary, secondary and secondary vocational schools.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Context Effect, Health Promotion, Elementary Secondary Education
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Bennett, Lindsay; Burns, Sharyn – Health Education, 2020
Purpose: Obesity in children and adolescents is a significant public health concern. The World Health Organization Health Promoting Schools (HPS) framework promotes good nutrition and physical activity in school settings. While HPS is embraced globally, effective implementation and sustainable programmes are a continued challenge. This paper aims…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Health Promotion, Prevention, Obesity
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Murphy, Christina; Barry, Margaret M.; Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse – Health Education, 2018
Purpose: School-based programmes face a variety of personal, environmental and organisational challenges to implementation. Stakeholders can provide crucial contextual information to improve implementation. The purpose of this paper is to explore teachers' perspectives on implementation through a bottom-up participatory process.…
Descriptors: Health Education, Program Implementation, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Kok, Michele S. Y.; Jones, Mat; Solomon-Moore, Emma; Smith, Jane R. – Health Education, 2018
Purpose: The quality of voluntary sector-led community health programmes is an important concern for service users, providers and commissioners. Research on the fidelity of programme implementation offers a basis for assessing and further enhancing practice. The purpose of this paper is to report on the fidelity assessment of Living Well Taking…
Descriptors: Fidelity, Program Implementation, Diabetes, Health Promotion
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Anwar-McHenry, Julia; Donovan, Robert John; Nicholas, Amberlee; Kerrigan, Simone; Francas, Stephanie; Phan, Tina – Health Education, 2016
Purpose: Mentally Healthy WA developed and implemented the Mentally Healthy Schools Framework in 2010 in response to demand from schools wanting to promote the community-based Act-Belong-Commit mental health promotion message within a school setting. Schools are an important setting for mental health promotion, therefore, the Framework encourages…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Health Promotion, Semi Structured Interviews, Foreign Countries
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Darlington, Emily Joan; Simar, Carine; Jourdan, Didier – Health Education, 2017
Purpose: Implementing health promotion programmes in schools is key to improving children's health and well-being but difficulties in achieving expected results are often reported in the research literature. Discrepancies between expected and achieved outcomes can originate from differences in contexts. Understanding how interactions between…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Health Education, High Schools, Interviews
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Flaschberger, Edith – Health Education, 2013
Purpose: School health promotion is said to be most effective when implemented through a comprehensive, settings-based, whole-school approach. The purpose of this paper is to address the current lack of knowledge about the current state of teacher education for health promotion and its potential to further the development of settings-based…
Descriptors: Drinking, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Team Sports
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Nakiwala, Aisha Sembatya – Health Education, 2016
Purpose: Health education that integrates community participation is essential for malaria control. However, children's participation is not generally as active as that of adults, thus turning children into recipients, as opposed to partners in malaria control. The purpose of this paper is to develop a better understanding of how children can…
Descriptors: Health Education, Diseases, Disease Control, Case Studies
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Preiser, Rika; Struthers, Patricia; Mohamed, Suraya; Cameron, Neil; Lawrence, Estelle – Health Education, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of two higher education institutions in the Western Cape, South Africa, and how their initiatives and collaboration brought about a particular health promoting schools (HPS) program in a resource poor setting. The aim of this paper is to reflect on the importance of the role that external…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Institutional Role, Higher Education, Capacity Building
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