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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
Peer reviewedWynn, Sheri R.; Schulenberg, John; Kloska, Deborah D.; Laetz, Virginia B. – Journal of School Health, 1997
Examined the relationship between junior high school students' participation in an alcohol prevention program and level of refusal skills (as measured by role plays), noting the relationship between refusal skills and alcohol misuse over three years. Regression analysis indicated that refusal skills were significant mediators of the effect of the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Education, Comprehensive School Health Education
Floeter, Kristen; Klumpyan, Tamie – Campus Activities Programming, 1998
Student leaders and students actively involved in campus activities are offered suggestions for managing stress and for promoting their own physical, social, spiritual, intellectual, cultural, emotional, and environmental well-being. Advice includes acknowledging stresses, understanding behavior patterns, and making appropriate changes. A wellness…
Descriptors: College Students, Extracurricular Activities, Health Promotion, Higher Education
Peer reviewedWenzel, Mark – Journal of School Health, 1996
A hospital, school district, and pediatrician collaboration ensured all elementary students access to health care. School nurses referred students without health insurance needing health care to hospital-provided nurse practitioners for primary care. The hospital provided pharmacy, radiology, laboratory, and emergency services. The pediatrician…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Health, Clinics, Elementary Education
Direct linkTurner-Musa, Jocelyn O.; Wilson, Shaunqula A. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2006
This study examined the role of religious orientation and social support in health-promoting behaviors of African American college students. Data were collected from 211 students attending a historically Black university. Results from a 4 x 2 MANOVA revealed significant main effects for both variables. No interaction effects were observed. Post…
Descriptors: Stress Management, College Students, Health Behavior, Spiritual Development
Koller, James R.; Bertel, Julie M. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2006
With the alarming increase in the mental health needs of youth today, traditional preservice preparation training programs for school-based personnel in the area of mental health are overwhelmingly insufficient. While school professionals often lack basic specific evidence-based knowledge and skills to identify and intervene with students at risk…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Health Needs, Preservice Teacher Education, School Personnel
Martin, Molly; Camargo, Maria; Ramos, Lori; Lauderdale, Diane; Krueger, Kristin; Lantos, John – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2005
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a community health promotion project to increase HIV knowledge in an urban, immigrant Latino community in Chicago. Latino participants (N = 704) answered questions on HIV before and after an education intervention given by community health workers. Outcomes included changes in knowledge and self-perceived…
Descriptors: Health Personnel, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Health Promotion, Communicable Diseases
Evans, John; Evans, Bethan; Rich, Emma – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2003
On 16 January 2002, the United Kingdom House of Commons Select Committee published a report entitled "Tackling Obesity in England". Drawing on insights from the work of Bernstein, Bourdieu and Foucault, this article will suggest that the report provides an example "par excellence" of the way in which "the body" (our…
Descriptors: Obesity, Eating Disorders, Youth, Foreign Countries
Goold, P. C.; Bustard, S.; Ferguson, E.; Carlin, E. M.; Neal, K.; Bowman, C. A. – Health Education Research, 2006
In the UK there are high rates of sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancies amongst young people. There is limited and contradictory evidence that current sexual health education interventions are effective or that they improve access to appropriate sexual health services. This paper describes the outcome of focus group work with…
Descriptors: Intervention, Health Services, Health Education, Sex Education
Braine, Naomi; Des Jarlais, Don C.; Goldblatt, Cullen; Zadoretzky, Cathy; Turner, Charles – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2005
The goal of this study was to compare HIV risk behaviors of amphetamine and non-amphetamine injectors at syringe exchange programs (SEP) in the United States and to identify factors associated with injection risk. This analysis is based on data from a random cross-section of participants at 13 SEPs in different parts of the country. All interviews…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Homeless People, At Risk Persons, Drug Abuse
Chen, Huey-Tsyh; Liao, Quilan – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2005
The rapid growth of the HIV epidemic in China has raised a number of concerns among health care providers, governmental agencies, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). This article (a) briefly discusses the HIV epidemic in China, (b) explains why Chinese NGOs need to join the fight against the epidemic, (c) describes the development of an…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Prevention, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Nongovernmental Organizations
Harris, Jo; Cale, Lorraine – European Physical Education Review, 2006
This review has been prompted by concerns and anecdotal stories about low levels of fitness amongst today's young people and the possible consequences of this for their current and future health. Solutions to the "problem" have included proposals to fitness test children and to use this information to improve their health status. While…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Feasibility Studies, Testing, Health Conditions
Rudberg, Lennart; Nilsson, Sten; Wikblad, Karin; Carlsson, Marianne – Journal of School Nursing, 2005
The purpose of this study was to investigate to what extent school nurses in Sweden inform adolescent men about testicular cancer (TC) and testicular self-examination (TSE). A questionnaire was completed by 129 school nurses from 29 randomly selected municipalities. All respondents were women, with a mean age of 42 years. The results showed that…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Cancer, Foreign Countries, Males
Krahn, Gloria L.; Hammond, Laura; Turner, Anne – Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2006
People with ID represent approximately 2% of the population and, as a group, experience poorer health than the general population. This article presents recent conceptualizations that begin to disentangle health from disability, summarizes the literature from 1999 to 2005 in terms of the cascade of disparities, reviews intervention issues and…
Descriptors: Health Services, Health Promotion, Mental Retardation, Caregivers
Ozakinci, Gozde; Weinman, John A. – Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention in Children & Youth, 2006
The assumptions of two social cognition models, the Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1991) and the Health Belief Model (Rosenstock, 1974) are examined in 2 samples of Turkish university students: sexually active and sexually inactive. For sexually inactive participants, perceived benefits of condom use and self-efficacy beliefs regarding condom…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Health Promotion, Self Efficacy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
