Health Education: Volume 111 Issue 5

Healthy schools and colleges: what works, what is needed, and why? Part III

Ray Marks

The purpose of this editorial is to provide an overview and brief summary of the present contributions to this third volume of recent Health Education Special Issue submissions on…

Filling the black box of implementation for health‐promoting schools

Louise Rowling, Oddrun Samdal

Achieving organisational learning and greater specificity for implementation action for health‐promoting schools requires detailed understanding of the necessary components. They…

Theoretical and empirical base for implementation components of health‐promoting schools

Oddrun Samdal, Louise Rowling

Efforts to create a scientific base for the health‐promoting school approach have so far not articulated a clear “Science of Delivery”. There is thus a need for systematic…

Improving low‐income parents' fruit and vegetable intake and their potential to impact children's nutrition

Michael Prelip, Chan Le Thai, Jennifer Toller Erausquin, Wendy Slusser

The purpose of this research is to test a comprehensive nutrition program developed specifically to target low‐income parents of young school‐aged children and determine whether…

The impact of an educational intervention to protect women against the influence of media images

Jane Ogden, Lauren Smith, Helen Nolan, Rachel Moroney, Hannah Lynch

Media images of unrealistic beauty have been identified as a determinant of women's body dissatisfaction. This experimental study aims to explore whether the negative impact of…

Health‐related barriers to learning among graduate students

William Kernan, Jane Bogart, Mary E. Wheat

The purpose of this paper is to report the perceived impact of various health concerns on the academic performance of health sciences graduate students.

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