Health Education: Volume 106 Issue 3

New NICE and public health

Michael P. Kelly

This paper seeks to describe the public health guidance development activity of the new National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).

Promoting the health and wellbeing of young Black men using community‐based drama

Martin Kemp

This paper aims to explore the role of drama and theatre in promoting the emotional and social wellbeing of a group of young Black men living in south London.

Church leaders' opinions about tobacco prevention

Bonita Reinert, Vivien Carver, Lillian Range

To assess what volunteers‐ and ministers of faith‐based organizations (FBO) think about their own expertise in delivering a tobacco prevention initiative, the impact of such an…

Health education online: Issues arising from the development and roll‐out of a pilot distance education programme for NHS staff

Peter Williams, Barrie Gunter, David Nicholas

To evaluate a remote learning initiative involving filming live lectures and disseminating these via digital interactive television (DiTV), satellite to PC terminals and VHS…

The application of household expenditure data in the development of anti‐smoking campaigns

Julian de Meyrick, Farhat Yusuf

Despite widespread anti‐smoking campaigns, prevalence and the consequent damage to the community remains high and are therefore of concern to health educators. Several studies…

Using social identity to explore the link between a decline in adolescent smoking and an increase in mobile phone use

Simon Cassidy

The study seeks to further explore the hypothesised link between the increase in mobile phone ownership and use and the reported decline in adolescent smoking. Evidence for the…

Sudden infant death syndrome (cot deaths)

Noreen Wetton

Jenny McWhirter