Health Education: Volume 114 Issue 5

Effect of interventions to improve adolescents’ nutrition knowledge in China

Dongxu Wang, Donald Stewart, Chun Chang, Ying Ji, Yuhui Shi

– The purpose of this paper is to improve adolescents’ nutrition knowledge and to examine the effect of interventions component to improve adolescents’ nutrition knowledge.

Protest of tobacco-free policies on college campuses: a historical analysis

Christopher M. Seitz, Robert W. Strack

Although the threat of protest may be a barrier toward implementing a tobacco policy on college campuses in the USA, the prevalence and severity of such opposition has yet to be…

A systematic review investigating the use of Twitter and Facebook in university-based healthcare education

Toby Smith, Rodney Lambert

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the use, attitudes and perceptions of both teachers and students towards social media platforms (Facebook and Twitter) in healthcare…

Spillover of diet changes on intentions to approach healthy food and avoid unhealthy food

Tino Bech-Larsen, Laura Kazbare

The purpose of this paper is to describe two exploratory studies of how experience (lacking, failed, or successful) of trying to implement healthy eating behaviours influences…

Parental participation in primary schools; the views of parents and children

Yetunde O. John-Akinola, Saoirse Nic Gabhainn

Parental participation is important for strengthening and sustaining the concept of school health promotion but little is written on the processes involved. The purpose of this…

“The Health Education Juggler” : Development of a model describing educator roles in participatory, group-based patient education

Gitte Engelund, Ulla Møller Hansen, Ingrid Willaing

– The purpose of this paper is to explore educator competencies and roles needed to perform participatory patient education, and develop a comprehensive model describing this.