Health Education: Volume 104 Issue 5

Evidence into practice and health inequalities

Michael P. Kelly, Catherine Swann

This study focuses on the idea of an evidence‐based approach to medical problems, which has been in existence for more than 30 years. This idea of carrying systematic knowledge…

Promoting health in hospitals: the role of Beacon

Sandy Whitelaw, Jonathan Watson, Sue Hennessy

“Best practice” is currently being used to enable modernisation within the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom. One element of this is the Beacon programme where…

Pre‐teenage pupils' experiences of education in school on the subject of illegal drugs

James McIntosh, Fiona MacDonald, Neil McKeganey

There is mounting evidence that the age at which children are using and becoming exposed to illegal drugs is declining and that such use and exposure is becoming an increasing…

Does promoting bicycle‐helmet wearing reduce childhood head injuries?

Céline Farley, Marjan Vaez, Lucie Laflamme

The objectives of the study are to assess the impact of a community‐based bicycle‐helmet program aimed at children aged 5–12 years (about 140,000). A quasi‐experimental design…

Diaries in health promotion research: the Mobile Information Bus evaluation

Laura Wyness, Flora Douglas, Edwin van Teijlingen

This paper discusses the use of diary‐keeping as part of an evaluation of a complex, community‐based health promotion initiative, using the Mobile Information Bus (MIB) as an…

The Healthy Talk family planning campaign of Massachusetts: a communication‐centered approach

Hyunyi Cho, Peter Oehlkers, Juan Mandelbaum, Karen Edlund, Melanie Zurek

This article focuses on psychosocial barriers to sexual health and their implications on the design and delivery of mass media‐based public health campaigns. A family planning…