Health Education: Volume 108 Issue 6

Are pre‐adolescent girls' magazines providing age‐appropriate role models?

Belinda Fabrianesi, Sandra C. Jones, Amanda Reid

Repeated exposure to unrealistic notions of female beauty and body shapes, and limited gender stereotypes, may result in the internalization of those standards by pre‐adolescent…

Young adults' perceptions of smoking actors

Sandra C. Jones, John D. Rossiter

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of portrayed smoking status of actors on their popularity with both smoking and non‐smoking young people, as well as their…

Effects of training programme on HIV/AIDS prevention among primary health care workers in Oyo State, Nigeria

Ademola Ajuwon, Fawole Funmilayo, Oladimeji Oladepo, Kayode Osungbade, Michael Asuzu

The purpose of this paper is to train primary health care workers to be trainers and implementers of community‐based AIDS prevention activities in Oyo State, Nigeria, by…

Awareness and habit: important factors in physical activity in children

Stef P.J. Kremers, Marieke A.M. Dijkman, Judith S.B. de Meij, Merlin E. Jurg, Johannes Brug

The purpose of this paper is to gain insight into the extent to which Dutch children are aware of their own physical activity level, and to what extent children's physical…

Reducing the impact of media images: An evaluation of the effectiveness of an air‐brushing educational intervention on body dissatisfaction

Jane Ogden, Faye Sherwood

This experimental study seeks to explore the impact of media images on women's body dissatisfaction and to assess whether this impact could be reduced by an educational…

Note from the publisher

Vicky Williams

Erectile dysfunction

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