Special issues

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(2007), "Special issues", Health Education, Vol. 107 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/he.2007.142107daa.001

Special issues

Special issuesHealth Education is considering running the following special issues. If you would be interested in contributing to one of them, please contact the appropriate Guest Editor for further information or to discuss ideas.Submissions should be sent, in electronic form only, to:Torhild Hearn, Journal Manager, School of Education, University of Southampton, Hampshire, SO17 1BJ, UK.Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 2754; Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 3556; E-mail: toh@soton.ac.ukPost-millennium trends in adolescent use of illicit drugs, alcohol and tobacco: what are the health education implications?Papers should assess recent (post millennium) trends in adolescent substance use, and set these in context. Papers can cover any of the range of substances and could address use that ranges from problematic to experimental. Papers might also look at changes in theory/explanations for adolescent drug use and how these have been evolving. Contributors might take a forward looking approach, with the intention to flag up important trends for the future that might be of interest to readers of Health Education.For further information, contact the Guest Editor:Judith Aldridge Judith.Aldridge@manchester.ac.ukPhysical fitness, physical activity and physical educationFor further information contact the Guest Editor:Neil Armstrong. N.Armstrong@exeter.ac.ukYoung people and sexual healthFor further information contact the Guest Editor:Ros Kane rkane@lincoln.ac.ukAdvancing an evidence based approach to Public Health Guidance. For further information contact the Guest Editor:Mike Kelly, Mike.Kelly@nice.org.uk, orAmanda Killoran Amanda.Killoran@nice.org.ukBetter education, better training, better nutrition, better health This issue will aim to capture research and scholarship around improving effectiveness of practice in nutrition health promotion or nutrition health education or the training of professionals who practice in these areas.This is especially timely in the United Kingdom as there are efforts to promote (even save) Health Promotion as a specialist area of practice based on a specialist discipline within the range of Public Health and to thereby to contribute to health improvement. Public Health is conceived to stand upon Health Promotion as one of its cornerstones but to lack a strong evidence base - there being a weak tradition of evidence based practice among practitioners who are all too often isolated and poorly supported, and no more so than in nutrition health promotion and nutrition health education which is underrepresented in the academy.For further information, contact the Guest Editor:Jackie Landman, j.landman@nutsoc.org.ukHealth communicationPapers must be based on empirical studies of physician-patient interaction).For further information contact the Guest Editor:Han Li. lih@unbc.caSchools and health education: what works, what is needed, and why?"Given the size and accessibility of the school population, schools can potentially make an enormous, positive impact on the health of a nation. In this special issue we would like to hear from authors who have successfully developed any form of school based health promotion program; as well as from those authors that have identified a need for some form of innovation or improvement in current school-based health promotion approaches, and can provide some direction about what we need to do in future and why. Systematic reviews of specific topic areas will also be acceptable.For further information contact the Guest Editor:Ray Marks Rm226@columbia.eduResearch with children and young peopleNoreen Wetton, who died in 2006, was a founding member of the editorial board of Health Education. She wrote the editorial for the first ever edition and continued to review articles for the journal into her 80th year. We are planning a special issue in Noreen's memory, focussing on research with children and young people at the centre, especially:

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  Illuminative research with children and young people on topics broadly defined as health.

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  Practitioner based enquiry with the aim of informing curriculum development and/or professional development for teachers in health education.

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  Evaluation of child centred approaches to health education.

Please submit full papers or an abstract (200 words) for consideration by the Special Edition Editor:Jenny McWhirter jennyetal@btinternet.comMental health promotion and the good and healthy schoolMental health promotion has moved into the focus of school health promotion in the last few years. Mental health problems are more prominent in the population of school-aged children and school teachers. Research and experience in schools show that mental health conditions and achievements of pupils and teachers in learning and teaching are closely linked. Mental health promotion could be a key strategy in the future to support pupils, teachers and school as a system to develop to be good and healthy places for learning and teaching. Concepts, projects and programmes on school, mental health promotion are invited to present there ideas and results. They should be able to link their contribution to the discussion about school quality, school effectiveness and the "good school''.For further information contact the Guest Editor:Peter Paulus paulus@uni-lueneburg.deResilience and connectednessThis special issue focuses of mental health promotion, and the promotion of social and emotional wellbeing within a comprehensive health promoting school context. Papers that develop theoretical and conceptual issues as well as those that present research data are welcome. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches to data collection are included. The goal is to investigate the significance of holistic approaches to mental health promotion within the school context.For further information, contact the Guest Editors:Donald Stewart, donald.stewart@griffith.edu.auor Jing Sun, j.sun@griffith.edu.au

The Journal web site will also be useful for authors, especially the "Author guidelines'' on: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/he/notes.jsp