Health Education: Volume 109 Issue 1

Schools and health education: What works, what is needed, and why?

Ray Marks

The purpose of this article is to provide a rationale for and background to the present contributions in this special issue on school health education.

Learning about loss within a health education program

K. Jeanne Coleman

The purpose of this article is to show how children's health and wellbeing are continuously influenced by violence, divorce, family transience, environmental concerns, terrorism…

Implications of childhood cancer survivors in the classroom and the school

Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin, Patrick McAuliffe

The aims of this paper are to: briefly review the long‐term or late effects of cancer diagnosis and treatment on children and youth; examine the implications of these effects on…

“Innovations” on hold: sex education in the Greek primary schools

Margarita Gerouki

This paper seeks to examine the way sex and relationships education programs, as part of Health Education extra curriculum activities, have been implemented in the Greek primary…

Design and implementation of a pilot obesity prevention program in a low‐resource school: Lessons learned and research recommendations

Monica L. Baskin, Christie Zunker, Courtney B. Worley, Brenda Dial, Linda Kimbrough

This paper seeks to describe the design, implementation, and lessons learned from an obesity prevention pilot program delivered in a low resource school in the USA.

Pupil participation: comments from a case study

Lyn Wilson

This paper sets out to describe a small case study which aimed to unravel the complexity of pupil participation in secondary schools.

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