Health Education: Volume 102 Issue 1

Evaluating health‐promoting schools: steps to success

Carl Parsons, David Stears

Evaluating the health‐promoting school (HPS) and its effectiveness is crucial to its future development and sustainability. This paper attempts to outline the basis of approaches…

Clients’ experiences of a weight‐management programme: a qualitative study

Jane Cioffi

Weight‐management programmes to address obesity are an important strategy for improving community health. Some enrollees in this type of a programme are long term, repeatedly…

Changes in nutrition knowledge and dietary behaviour

Kate Parmenter

The majority of studies examining nutrition knowledge and dietary behaviour have been cross‐sectional. In contrast, this longitudinal study aims to examine changes in individuals’…

Mentoring for professional development in health promotion: a review of issues raised by recent research

Chris Oliver, Peter Aggleton

This paper examines some issues that arise from recent research on mentoring across a range of professional settings including teaching, nursing, medicine and social work. It…

Sex Education in Secondary Schools

Jennifer Tucker

Promoting Mental, Emotional and Social Health: a Whole School Approach

Lawrence St Leger