Health Education: Volume 105 Issue 6

Gathering and communicating information about school bullying: Overcoming “secrets and lies”

Karin S. Frey

This paper aims to discuss multiple methods for gathering information about school bullying and provides a developmental framework for communicating the information to parents and…

Trachoma and health education in primary schools in Tanzania: a pointer to community action

Richard Lansdow, Wahab Issae, Sidney Katala, Rose Mwaisumo

The primary aim of the work reported here is to determine whether a low cost teaching approach which had been successfully used in one region of Tanzania (Tanga) could be…

What schoolchildren should be taught about medicines: Combined opinions of children and teachers

Katri Hämeen‐Anttila, Mirja Juvonen, Riita Ahonen, Patricia J. Bush, Marja Airaksinen

This study is part of a larger project, which aims to develop medicine education materials for teachers. The aim of the present study was to discover children's interests in…

Adolescent physical self‐perceptions, sport/exercise and lifestyle physical activity

N.D. Gilson, C.B. Cooke, C.A. Mahoney

Domain and sub‐domain physical self‐perceptions have been associated with adolescent moderate intensity physical activity although the association with different types of…

Training patients to ask information verifying questions in medical interviews

Han Z. Li, Juanita Lundgren

The main purpose of the paper was to examine whether a short patient training session on various ways of requesting physicians to clarify a piece of previously elicited…

Contrasts between didactic and Deweyan approaches to health education

Corey H. Brouse, Charles E. Basch, Michael Kubara

Over the past few decades, several theories and models have evolved to guide health education practice. Some of these models are participatory and democratic; nevertheless, much…