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The Youth HIV Policy Advisors Programme: Creating Change Agents and Policy Leaders
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Grose, Rose Grace; Halden Brown, Emily; Roth Bayer, Carey; Paulk, Eric – Health Education Journal, 2022
Background: In 2018, Georgia ranked fourth in the USA for the number of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and first for rate of new HIV diagnoses. Structural barriers to HIV prevention and care include homelessness, inadequate access to healthcare, insufficient sexual health education, HIV criminalisation and incarceration. Objective: Georgia…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Change Agents, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Clinical Diagnosis
Alliances in the Dutch BeweegKuur Lifestyle Intervention
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den Hartog, Franciska; Wagemakers, Annemarie; Vaandrager, Lenneke; van Dijk, Marieke; Koelen, Maria A. – Health Education Journal, 2014
Objective: BeweegKuur (Exercise Therapy) is a Dutch lifestyle programme in which participants are referred by a general practitioner (GP) to a lifestyle advisor. To support participants, regional and local alliances are established. The present study explored the successes and challenges associated with collaboration processes in local BeweegKuur…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Life Style, Interviews, Focus Groups
REBOUND: A Media-Based Life Skills and Risk Education Programme
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Kröninger-Jungaberle, Henrik; Nagy, Ede; von Heyden, Maximilian; DuBois, Fletcher – Health Education Journal, 2015
Background: REBOUND is a novel media-based life skills and risk education programme developed for 14- to 25-year olds in school, university or youth group settings. This paper outlines the programme's rationale, curriculum and implementation. It provides information of relevance to researchers, programme developers and policymakers. Methods/design…
Descriptors: Risk, Health Education, Films, Resilience (Psychology)
Do We Need to Understand the Technology to Get to the Science? A Systematic Review of the Concept of Computer Literacy in Preventive Health Programs
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Dominick, Gregory M.; Friedman, Daniela B.; Hoffman-Goetz, Laurie – Health Education Journal, 2009
Objective: To systematically review definitions and descriptions of computer literacy as related to preventive health education programs. Method: A systematic review of the concept of computer literacy as related to preventive health education was conducted. Empirical studies published between 1994 and 2007 on prevention education programs with a…
Descriptors: Health Education, Health Promotion, Prevention, Definitions
The APPLE Project: An Investigation of the Barriers and Promoters of Healthy Eating and Physical Activity in New Zealand Children Aged 5-12 Years
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Williden, Micalla; Taylor, Rachael W; McAuley, Kirsten A; Simpson, Jean C; Oakley, Maggie; Mann, Jim I – Health Education Journal, 2006
Objective: To use the Analysis Grid for Environments Linked to Obesity (ANGELO) framework to determine the barriers and promoters of healthy eating and physical activity in children aged 5-12 years, as a basis for the development of a pilot community-based programme for preventing obesity in children (APPLE project: A Pilot Programme for Lifestyle…
Descriptors: Obesity, Intervention, Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level
Project MAINSTREAM'S First Fellowship Cohort: Pilot Test of a National Dissemination Model to Enhance Substance Abuse Curriculum at Health Professions Schools
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Browna, Richard L.; Marcus, Marianne T.; Lal, S.; Straussner, A.; Graham, Antonette V.; Madden, Theresa; Schoener, Eugene; Henry, Rebecca – Health Education Journal, 2006
Objective: Generalist health professional training on substance abuse prevention is patchy. This study assessed the effects of Project MAINSTREAM, a national interdisciplinary faculty development fellowship program, whose principal objective was to enhance curriculum on basic substance abuse services at health professions training institutions.…
Descriptors: Health Occupations, Substance Abuse, Prevention, Professional Development