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Journal of School Health, 1997
Summarizes strategies most likely to be effective in promoting healthy eating among school-aged youths and provides nutrition education guidelines for a comprehensive school health program. The guidelines include recommendations on seven aspects of a school based program to promote healthy eating. (SM)
Descriptors: Comprehensive School Health Education, Curriculum Development, Dietetics, Eating Habits

Blasi, MaryJane – Childhood Education, 2003
Discusses reasons childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions and the numerous health problems that can result. Suggests parents incorporate physical activity into their family's lifestyle; advocate for daily outdoor recess at school; provide healthful meals; respect their child's appetite; not use food for comfort or as reward; and limit…
Descriptors: Athletics, Child Health, Children, Computer Use

English, Jill – Journal of School Health, 1994
Outlines innovations needed in school health education programs at four levels--national, state, school district, and school site. Implications for health education program developers at each level are indicated. (SM)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education

Shannon, Brenda K. J. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 1995
Describes a Food-Choice Unit that includes the following activities: drawing circle graphs, graphing dietary content, understanding heart attacks, reducing dietary fat, charting fat content of restaurant foods, and calculating percent of fat. Includes extension activities. (CSCO)
Descriptors: Body Composition, Elementary School Mathematics, Estimation (Mathematics), Grade 6

Terre, Lisa; And Others – Adolescence, 1992
Investigated relative influence of background characteristics (age, gender, race, socioeconomic status, family type) and peer status on health-related behaviors (physical activity, eating habits, smoking, alcohol use, stress-related behaviors) in 589 junior high school students. Peer popularity provided no significant increment in prediction of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Background, Demography, Drinking

Deutsch, Charles – Educational Leadership, 2000
Schools desiring to set, enforce, and realize high academic standards must join with allies who set high expectations for preventing and addressing health impediments to learning. Health and learning outcomes (and inequities) are driven by powerful, remediable social environments, not by individual "lifestyle" choices. "Access"…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Health Care, Cooperative Programs, Educational Change
Becker, Julie; Kovach, Andrea Crivelli; Gronseth, Dickie Lynn – Journal of Community Psychology, 2004
The purposes of this study were to operationalize individual empowerment within the context of the MOMobile Program, to explore the relationships formed between MOMobile Advocates and their clients, and to develop an appropriate survey instrument for assessing the impact of a Community Health Worker (CHW) intervention in a community-based social…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Health Promotion, Mothers, Focus Groups
Thomson, Rob; Langley, John – Journal of Community Psychology, 2004
Many victims of physical assaults do not report the assault to the police. In this study we examine whom these victims talked to and how satisfied they were with the help they received. A sample of 374 participants of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study (DMHDS) who had been assaulted in the preceding 12 months, were asked…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Victims of Crime, Emotional Experience, Physical Health
Yu, Chia-Chen; Liaw, Yin-Hua; Barnd, Susan – Sport, Education and Society, 2004
The world is becoming a global village and within many professions, including physical education and sport, individuals have multiple opportunities to work and socialize with people from different ethnic backgrounds, cultures, lifestyles, religions, etc. Due to the increasing cultural diversity, it is important for physical education and sport…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Equal Education, Physical Activities, Females
Tossavainen, Kerttu; Turunen, Hannele; Jakonen, Sirkka; Vertio, Harri – Children & Society, 2004
The purpose of the study was to describe school nurses' (N=24) and teachers' (N=25) opinions of how the health-related goals in their counselling and instruction were attained and to find out the possible differences between the two groups in the Finnish European Network of Health Promoting Schools. The data were collected by a questionnaire and…
Descriptors: First Aid, Comprehensive School Health Education, Health Behavior, School Nurses
Schrader, Susan L.; Blue, Rebecca; Horner, Arlene – Journal of School Nursing, 2005
Although osteoporosis typically surfaces in later life, peak bone mass attained before age 20 is a key factor in its prevention. However, most American children's diets lack sufficient calcium during the critical growth periods of preadolescence and adolescence to achieve peak bone mass. "Better Bones (BB) Buddies" is an educational…
Descriptors: Prevention, Health Promotion, Nutrition, Dietetics
Rosal, Milagros C.; Goins, Karin Valentine; Carbone, Elena T.; Cortes, Dharma E. – Health Education & Behavior, 2004
Hispanics are twice as likely as non-Hispanic Whites to have diabetes and are also at higher risk for diabetes-related complications and poorer outcomes. The prevalence of diabetes is inversely related to educational status. Low literacy is common, especially among older Hispanics. Little literature exists on formative research to create diabetes…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Diabetes, Latin Americans, Hispanic Americans
Kloek, Gitte C.; van Lenthe, Frank J.; van Nierop, Peter W. M.; Mackenbach, Johan P. – Health Education & Behavior, 2004
This article describes the association of external and psychosocial factors on the stages of change for fruit and vegetable consumption, among 2,781 inhabitants, aged 18 to 65 years, in deprived neighborhoods (response rate 60%). To identify correlates of forward stage transition, an ordinal logistic regression model, the Threshold of Change Model…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Health Promotion, Health Behavior, Dietetics
Oshi, Daniel C.; Nakalema, Sarah – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2005
Research was undertaken to assess the role of primary school teachers with regard to the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. Structured and semi-structured questionnaires were responded to by 210 teachers drawn from primary schools in Eastern Nigeria (with pupils aged 6-15 years). These were supplemented by focus group discussions and…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Prevention, Focus Groups, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, Washington, DC. – 1995
The Carnegie Corporation's Council on Adolescent Development builds on the work of many organizations and individuals to stimulate sustained public attention to the risks and opportunities of adolescence, and generates public and private support for measures that facilitate the critical transition to adulthood. This document explores some of the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Change Strategies