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Margolius, Max; Doyle Lynch, Alicia; Pufall Jones, Elizabeth; Hynes, Michelle – America's Promise Alliance, 2020
The novel virus caused by COVID-19 has disrupted life across the country and led to nationwide school closures. In the midst of this disruption and uncertainty, young people, teachers, parents, and other youth-serving professionals are working in new and creative ways to support young people's education. In the interest of understanding how young…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Public Health, Disease Incidence, Crisis Management
Jaime M. Garza – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Heavy drinking among college students has been identified as a major public health concern in the United States. While research on college drinking is extensive, it is almost exclusively focused on white non-Hispanic populations, with minimal attention to ethnic minority groups--particularly the Hispanic college student. The aim of this study was…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, Undergraduate Students
Grewal, Eshleen Kaur; Doyle-Baker, Patricia – Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, 2017
The academic discipline of kinesiology is relatively new (1960s) and is devoted to the study of human movement. The knowledge base and subject of study continues to develop and now includes inquiry regarding the impact of physical activity on health, society, and quality of life. The purpose of this course content evaluation was to identify…
Descriptors: Kinesiology, Course Evaluation, Course Content, Student Attitudes
Islam, Zahirul – Journal of Educational Issues, 2017
Public health has constituted itself as a distinct academic discipline. The present paper attempts to understand ontology of this discipline. A study has recently been carried out which concerns, first, conceptualization of ontology of public health, secondly, nature of public health, and thirdly, curriculum development. Ontology is a…
Descriptors: Public Health, College Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach, Fundamental Concepts
Barnsley, Kathryn; Walters, E. Haydn; Wood-Baker, Richard – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2017
Tasmania led in several areas of tobacco control legislation reform in the period 1997 to 2010. Despite this, Tasmania lagged in other crucial areas, particularly the allocation of resources for community education, mass media campaigns and cessation programmes. Key impediments were crony capitalism; the conservative ideology of "white…
Descriptors: Barriers, Smoking, Psychological Patterns, Foreign Countries
Banerjee, Srikanta; Firtell, Jill – Health Education Journal, 2017
Background: Online distance learning (e-learning) is an established method for providing higher education on a global scale due to its potential to reduce inequalities particularly in the area of public health education. Simultaneously, multicultural education is a key component of health education and can be achieved by fostering cultural…
Descriptors: Models, Public Health, Distance Education, Electronic Learning
Etheridge Woodson, Stephani; Szkupinski Quiroga, Seline; Underiner, Tamara; Farid Karimi, Robert – Research in Drama Education, 2017
Growing from a multi-year and multidisciplinary research and applied arts investigative team based in North America, this essay presents a model of how performative engagements contribute to individual behavioural change in wellness practices. To be even more specific, this essay analyses and theorises the mechanisms involved in the application of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Health, Wellness, Theater Arts
Pearrow, Melissa M.; Snyder, Jill; Kaye, Amy – Communique, 2017
Systems to organize academic outcomes data are integrated into schools; and while behavioral data, instruction tools, and systems are emerging, a clear gap remains (Lane, Oakes, & Menzies, 2010). Behavioral health has historically targeted resources at an individual level, and transitioning to a systems perspective of prevention and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Psychologists, Mental Health, Student Needs
Harden, Samantha M.; Lindsay, Anne; Everette, Alicia; Gunter, Katherine B. – Journal of Extension, 2016
Extension programming that incorporates both physical activity and dietary behaviors is necessary for the prevention of certain chronic diseases, including obesity. The purpose of the study presented here was to systematically identify the presence of physical activity objectives in the strategic plan for each Extension system in the United…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Extension Education, Strategic Planning, Behavioral Objectives
Swallow, Wendy; Roberts, Jill C. – Journal of School Nursing, 2016
During the 2012-2013 school year, only 66% of students at a Northern Indiana High School were in compliance with school immunization requirements. We report here successful implementation of evidence-based, time, and cost-effective methods aimed at increasing school immunization compliance. A three-stage strategy initiated by the school nurse was…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Evidence Based Practice, School Nurses, Compliance (Legal)
Brady, Anne-Marie; Keogh, Brian – Health Education Journal, 2016
Objective: The aim of this evaluation was to determine the cultural and educational appropriateness of a pilot asthma education programme developed for the Traveller and Roma community in Ireland. Design: A participatory multi-stakeholder and qualitative approach. Setting: Prevalence and inadequate control of asthma have been found to be high…
Descriptors: Diseases, Minority Groups, Public Health, Cost Effectiveness
Rimer, Barbara K. – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
The concerted, strategic efforts of government leaders can create rapid accelerations in knowledge and the application of that knowledge for the public good. Government service can represent part or all of one's career. Working at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) early in my career helped me develop a macro-level understanding of how the…
Descriptors: Public Service, Public Service Occupations, Federal Government, Career Development
de Bruijn, Gert-Jan; Spaans, Pieter; Jansen, Bastiaan; van't Riet, Jonathan – Health Education Research, 2016
Adolescent hearing loss is a public health problem that has eluded effective intervention. A persuasive message strategy was tested for its effectiveness on adolescents' intention to listen to music at a reduced volume. The messages manipulated both type of message frame [positive consequences of listening to music at a reduced volume…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Adolescents, Intention, Music
Ram, Rajesh; France, Bev; Birdsall, Sally – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2016
Background: Research on biosecurity is important as New Zealand's agricultural export-driven economy is susceptible to biosecurity threats. Because New Zealand is reliant on the primary industries to drive its economy, bovine diseases such as foot and mouth could have a devastating effect on the economy. Purpose: Making sure that the general…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Public Health, Communicable Diseases, Foreign Countries
Rozenberg, Gennadiy S.; Lazareva, Natalya V.; Simonov, Yury V.; Lifirenko, Natalya G.; Sarapultseva, Lilija A. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The urgency of the analyzed issue is due to the study of the basic issues of medical ecology: the dynamics of demographic indicators, the correlation of somatic and reproductive public health, depending on the influence of physical factors of the urban environment on public health on the basis of medical and geographic mapping. The article aims at…
Descriptors: Ecology, Public Health, Urban Areas, Medicine