Publication Date
| In 2025 | 35 |
| Since 2024 | 197 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 721 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 1563 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 3519 |
Descriptor
| Public Health | 6708 |
| Foreign Countries | 1432 |
| Health Education | 1122 |
| Health Promotion | 1122 |
| Prevention | 862 |
| Intervention | 627 |
| Higher Education | 598 |
| Disease Control | 581 |
| Health Services | 576 |
| Child Health | 547 |
| Public Policy | 545 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
| Practitioners | 225 |
| Policymakers | 136 |
| Teachers | 134 |
| Administrators | 65 |
| Researchers | 60 |
| Community | 35 |
| Students | 33 |
| Parents | 30 |
| Support Staff | 16 |
| Counselors | 10 |
| Media Staff | 5 |
| More ▼ | |
Location
| United States | 241 |
| Canada | 179 |
| Australia | 172 |
| California | 134 |
| United Kingdom | 123 |
| New York | 92 |
| United Kingdom (England) | 69 |
| Africa | 59 |
| India | 58 |
| North Carolina | 56 |
| Texas | 53 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Direct linkEliana Romina Meza-Miranda; Solange Liliana Parra-Soto; Samuel Durán-Agüero; Georgina Gomez; Valeria Carpio-Arias; Israel Ríos-Castillo; Ana Gabriela Murillo; Jacqueline Araneda; Gladys Morales; Brian M. Cavagnari; Edna J. Nava-González; Jhon J. Bejarano-Roncancio; Beatriz Núñez; Karla Cordón-Arrivillaga; Saby Mauricio-Alza; Leslie Landaeta-Díaz – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Introduction: Short sleep, physical inactivity, and being locked up are risk factors for weight gain. Objective: We evaluated weight gain according to sex, age, hours of sleep and physical activity in university students from 10 Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Cross-sectional and multicenter study (n = 4880).…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Sleep, Physical Activity Level, College Students
Erica Martinez Zumba; Karriem S. Watson; Paola Torres; Barbara Williams; Nasima Mannan; Lauren Green; Brenda Owens; Nicole Gastala; Rocio Bueno; Brenda Soto; Leslie Carnahan; Yamile Molina; Vida Henderson – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Community-engaged patient navigation safety net programs are established as an evidence-based approach to address cancer prevention and early detection efforts, but barriers to expand and sustain such programs persist. In addition, few studies describe how these programs impact buy-in among communities and policy change within health care systems…
Descriptors: Cancer, Community Health Services, Public Health, Preventive Medicine
Michelle Gamber; Danielle Henderson; Dulce María Ruelas – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To understand student perceptions, interest and intentions of pursuing public health as a result of COVID-19 during educational experiences. Participants: Two hundred seventy-seven students completed the survey representing 38 states and two countries. Methods: An online survey was administered to current undergraduate and graduate…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Allied Health Occupations, Public Health
Download full textKatarzyna Peoples; C. Todd Correa; Gary J. Burkholder – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2024
Objectives: There are essentially three schools of thought regarding critical thinking--humanistic, cognitive, and behavioral. Given the disagreement among them, confusion continues about what critical thinking means, and how it can be taught to students. Methods: In this qualitative phenomenological study, researchers interviewed students and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, College Faculty
I. M. Ventura; A. R. Datta; D. Phillips; R. Weber – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has had major impacts on child care and early education (CCEE) in the U.S. This report describes calendar year 2020 experiences of CCEE centers that were operating in 2019, including changes in their enrollments and their instructional staff. It also describes the extent to which centers received pandemic assistance during…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Nisar, Faiza; Zeb, Sadaf; Oosterhoff, Benjamin; Ahmed, Shaf – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2022
Background: Community attachments are thought to promote adolescents' engagement in public health behaviors. To date, past research has exclusively examined the social benefits of community attachments among adolescents in the United States and less is known about these benefits among youth in low-income adolescent-dense countries such as…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Health
Al Sabahi, Sultana; Wilson, Michael G.; Lavis, John N.; El-Jardali, Fadi; Moat, Kaelan – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2022
Background: Oman has prioritised enhanced efforts for supporting evidence-informed policymaking (EIPM), including establishing a knowledge translation department in the Omani Ministry of Health (MOH). Aim and objective: Our aim was to gather insights to guide the process of activating this department. Methods: We conducted a document review and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence Based Practice, Public Agencies, Technology Transfer
Wilcox, Melanie; Baker, Camille; Burish, Emily; Arnold, Renissa; Cherry, Megan; Moss, Tierra – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2022
Food insecurity (FI) is a leading public health concern yet is understudied amongst postsecondary students. A substantial proportion (34.4%) of our student sample reported FI; Black, low-SES, and low-SES women students were most likely to experience FI; and FI was related to poorer academic, health, and stress outcomes. Employee awareness was low,…
Descriptors: Food, Hunger, Poverty, Public Health
Levay, Paul; Heath, Andrea; Tuvey, Daniel – Research Synthesis Methods, 2022
Systematic searches are integral to identifying the evidence that is used in National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) public health guidelines (PHGs). This study analyses the sources, including bibliographic databases and other techniques, required for PHGs. The aims were to analyse the sources used to identify the publications…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Public Health, Guidelines, Information Sources
Benjamin W. Domingue; Klint Kanopka; Travis T. Mallard; Sam Trejo; Elliot M. Tucker-Drob – Grantee Submission, 2022
Genotype-by-environment interaction (GxE) studies probe heterogeneity in response to risk factors or interventions. Popular methods for estimation of GxE examine multiplicative interactions between individual genetic and environmental measures. However, risk factors and interventions may modulate the total variance of an epidemiological outcome…
Descriptors: Genetics, Environmental Influences, Interaction, Body Composition
Marguerite Corvini – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to understand the experience individuals in recovery from substance use have when sharing their story in a public setting (i.e., intergroup contact) and how this affects their personal journey and ongoing recovery. A theoretical framework was developed based on Kelly's experience cycle and a multilevel approach to…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Drug Rehabilitation, Personal Narratives, Social Bias
Popova, Lucy; Li, Yachao – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
How people make perceived message effectiveness (PME) judgments remains mostly unexplored. This study assessed whether people need to spontaneously think about message effectiveness to report the message as effective on rating scales and investigated emotions as precursors to PME. After viewing one of four e-cigarette prevention messages, 1,968…
Descriptors: Adults, Health Promotion, Smoking, Psychological Patterns
Kaliampos, George; Kotsis, Konstantinos T.; Kornelaki, Athina C. – European Educational Researcher, 2023
A number of diverse arguments have been proposed by researchers of science education regarding the reason science should be taught in schools. These arguments inevitably play a crucial role in the curriculum designed by policymakers. The present study turns its attention to the democratic argument. It explores its validity through a special…
Descriptors: Science Education, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Democratic Values
Ezezika, Obidimma; Fusaro, Maria; Rebello, James; Aslemand, Asal – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
We developed an analog board game, "BioRacer" to further student learning in the field of public health biology and assessed its impact on learning by conducting a mixed method study. The purpose was to ascertain whether and how gaming could be a valuable learning experience for students in a lower year level undergraduate course in…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Education, Public Health, Educational Games
Wehmanen, Kyle W.; Cottet-Puinel, Felix E.; Hampton, Tyler C.; Hamlin, Gwyn T.; Wedig, Isaac J.; Elmer, Steven J. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2023
We developed a hands-on activity using the game Jenga to demonstrate the links between health behaviors, chronic and infectious diseases, and community well-being and resilience. For the activity, K-12 students worked together in small teams (4-8 students) and were given two Jenga towers ("tower A" and "tower B"), each…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Health Behavior, Resilience (Psychology)
