Health Education: Volume 108 Issue 2

Health literacy: an essential skill for the twenty‐first century

Ilona Kickbusch

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of low health literacy and identify how this can have detrimental effects on citizens and their health. It looks at the current…

Qualitative assessment of adolescents' views about improving exposure to internet‐delivered interventions

Rik Crutzen, Jascha de Nooijer, Wendy Brouwer, Anke Oenema, Johannes Brug, Nanne K. de Vries

The purpose of this paper is to gain first insight into factors which might be associated with exposure to internet‐delivered interventions.

Evaluation of a school‐linked program for children with cancer

Pamela St Leger, Lyn Campbell

The purpose of this paper is to show that the “Back on Track” program is designed to support students with a chronic illness (usually cancer) to maintain contact with their school…

Stigmatizing attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS among college students in China: Implications for HIV/AIDS education and prevention

Liying Zhang, Xiaoming Li, Rong Mao, Bonita Stanton, Qun Zhao, Bo Wang, Ambika Mathur

The purpose of this paper is to show that HIV/AIDS‐related stigma has persisted world‐wide for decades. However, studies on the linkage between stigmatizing attitudes towards…

The role of alcohol in a sexually motivated situation

Pia Suvivuo, Kerttu Tossavainen, Osmo Kontula

The purpose of this paper is to study in detail what kind of role alcohol has among a selected group of sexually active teenage girls, with special emphasis on their locus of…

Approaches to developing health in early years settings

Ann Mooney, Janet Boddy, June Statham, Ian Warwick

The purpose of the paper is to consider the opportunities and difficulties in developing health‐promotion work in early years settings in the UK.

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