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Direct linkPriyanka Bantwal; Muralidhar M. Kulkarni; Veena G. Kamath; Ratna Jay; Gahan S. Jois; Nivetha Sekar; M. Vaishna Shankar; Dalraj S. Bajwa; Rohit Bhagawath; Ashwath K. Naik – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Background: Tobacco users disproportionately reside in lower-and-middle income countries, with many people beginning consumption of tobacco in adolescence. Countries employ interventions in schools as a means of providing health education thereby creating mass awareness among them. However, research has mostly restricted to developed nations.…
Descriptors: Smoking, Intervention, Prevention, Adolescents
Aurelie Van Hoye; Benny Cullen; Aoife Lane; Kevin Volf; Liam Kelly; Enrique Garcia Bengoechea; Anne Vuillemin; Catherine Woods – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objective: Policy development is the biggest gap for health-promoting sports clubs. The present study aims to identify Irish sports club's involvement in health promotion (HP) policy development. Design: Mixed methods concurrent survey design, with quantitative data providing insights into priorities, activities and documentation and qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health, Athletics, Clubs
Bibbi Larsliden; Claes Nilholm – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
Prior research about pupil welfare teams have identified problems at several levels: those of leadership, interprofessional cooperation, cooperation between the pupil welfare team and teachers, and type of work carried out. Perhaps most importantly, teams seem to work primarily with 'firefighting', i.e. acting reactively when problems already have…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Student Welfare, Health Promotion, Prevention
Download full textNur Indri Rahayu; Muktiarni; Adang Suherman; Affero Ismail – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
The "health promoting universities" strategy has gained popularity and a presence in the higher education system, particularly in universities. It is imperative for higher education establishments to prioritize the promotion of health within their student body and academic community. By safeguarding and boosting students' wellbeing, a…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Intervention, Universities, Student Behavior
Hany Hachem – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2025
Decades of governmental neglect mark the socio-political realities of older people in Lebanon. They endure poverty, illiteracy, ageism, exclusion from healthcare and social security, and are absent from public spaces. Against the backdrop of these realities and Lebanon's ageing population, the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs, in collaboration…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Older Adults, Aging (Individuals)
Christina Breil; Michael Lillich – Health Education Research, 2024
Health literacy (HL) in children is essential for healthy decision-making from early on. At six Austrian elementary schools, all children (aged 6-11 years) received 3 years of health education (HE). The participating schools were equipped with teaching materials to convey lessons in a child-oriented way. The teachers were professionally…
Descriptors: Health Education, Elementary School Students, Literacy, Content Area Reading
Lotta Jämiä; Niina Piispanen; Jari Kylmä; Elina Haavisto; Eeva Harju – Journal of School Health, 2024
BACKGROUND: Schools play a significant role in adolescent sexual health (SH) promotion. Although adolescents' SH has improved, growing challenges still exist in some areas. Previous studies have noted a lack of knowledge about SH promotion implementation in school environments. The purpose of this review is to describe the contents, methods, and…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Adolescents, Early Adolescents, Late Adolescents
Míriam Rodríguez-Monforte; Carles Fernández-Jané; Marietta Bracha; Adrianna Bartoszewska; Mariusz Kozakiewicz; Mariel Leclerc; Endrit Nimani; Pauliina Soanvaara; Sari Jarvinen; Meike Van Sherpenseel; Miriam van der Velde; António Alves-Lopes; Marietta Handgraaf; Christian Grüneberg; Elena Carrillo-Alvarez – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2024
The promotion of healthy aging has become a priority in most parts of the world and should be promoted at all ages. However, the baseline training of health and social professionals is currently not adequately tailored to these challenges. This paper reports the results of a Delphi study conducted to reach expert agreement about health and social…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Allied Health Personnel, Job Skills, Competence
Ayala Zak Yehuda; Orna Baron-Epel – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objective: Schools and the education system are powerful tools for cultivating healthy lifestyles. This research focuses on characterising the factors contributing to the development of health-promoting schools in Israel, and understanding how schools can offer a framework for improving students' health. Fullan's triple change model with its focus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
Nina Bartelink; Patricia Assema; Gerjanne Vennegoor; Kathelijne Bessems – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: Although principles of the health promoting school (HPS) approach are followed worldwide, differences between countries in the implementation are reported. The aim of the current study was (1) to examine the implementation of the HPS approach in European countries in terms of different implementation indicators, that is, percentage of…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Institutional Characteristics, Comparative Education, School Surveys
Bárbara da Silva Mourthé Matoso; Viviane E. Gomes; Marcelo Nakao; Najara B. da Rocha; Wagner Marcenes; Raquel C. Ferreira – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: This study evaluated stakeholders' perceptions regarding the initial implementation process of the health promoting school model proposed by the affordable health initiative (AHI HPS model) in schools of Belo Horizonte/BRA. Methods: The model has been implemented since 2019, by an implementation committee (IC) with members from…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, School Activities, Foreign Countries, Stakeholders
Katherine East; Eve Taylor; Erikas Simonavicius; Matilda Nottage; Jessica L. Reid; Robin Burkhalter; Leonie Brose; Olivia A. Wackowski; Alex C. Liber; Ann McNeill; David Hammond – Health Education Research, 2024
Public health campaigns have the potential to correct vaping misperceptions. However, campaigns highlighting vaping harms to youth may increase misperceptions that vaping is equally/more harmful than smoking. Vaping campaigns have been implemented in the United States and Canada since 2018 and in England since 2017 but with differing focus: youth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Smoking, Public Health
Rajeswari Sambasivam; Edimansyah Abdin; P. V. AshaRani; Kumarasan Roystonn; Fiona Devi; Peizhi Wang; Eng Sing Lee; Chee Fang Sum; Mythily Subramaniam – Health Education Research, 2024
The War on Diabetes campaign was launched in 2016, encouraging Singapore residents to engage in regular exercise, adopt healthy dietary habits and screen for early detection of diabetes. This study aims to examine campaign awareness and its associations with sedentary behaviour, dietary habits and identifying diabetes. Data were obtained from the…
Descriptors: Diabetes, Health Promotion, Health Behavior, Dietetics
Kronsted Lund, L.; Gurholt, K. P.; Kaae, B. C. – Sport, Education and Society, 2023
This study reviews the research literature on blue health promotion and the value of multiple forms of coastal and marine recreation and activities across societal contexts, with contributions from the Nordic region. It re-emphasizes the need for interrogating whose benefits and interests are promoted and the diversity of physical cultures and…
Descriptors: Marine Education, Health Promotion, Intervention, Planning
Lazarous Mbulo; Glenda Blutcher-Nelson; Pranesh P. Chowdhury; Catherine O. Egbe; Abdallahi Bouhabib; Krishna Palipudi – Health Education Research, 2024
We utilized Global Adult Tobacco Survey data to examine singlestick purchases and related demographic characteristics in 10 African countries (Botswana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Mauritania, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda and Tanzania). Results show the weighted percentages and prevalence ratios with predicted marginal means to evaluate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Smoking, Demography, Age Differences
