Health Education: Volume 115 Issue 3/4

Teaching classroom management – a potential public health intervention?

Ruth Marlow, Lorraine Hansford, Vanessa Edwards, Obioha C Ukoumunne, Shelley Norman, Sara Ingarfield, Siobhan Sharkey, Stuart Logan, Tamsin Ford

The purpose of this paper is to explore the feasibility of a classroom management course as a public health intervention. Improved socio-emotional skills may boost children’s…

Relationships between students’ mental health and their perspectives of life at school

Helen Askell-Williams, Michael J. Lawson

The purpose of this paper is to explore relationships between students’ self-reported mental health and their perspectives about life at school in metropolitan Adelaide, South…

The ASCD Healthy School Communities project: formative evaluation results

Robert F. Valois, Theresa C. Lewallen, Sean Slade, Adriane N. Tasco

The purpose of this paper is to report the formative evaluation results from the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Healthy School Communities (HSC) pilot…

Prevention of ADHD related problems: a universal preschool program

Hanna Christiansen, Oliver Hirsch, Anika König, Ricarda Steinmayr, Bernd Roehrle

Early onset of behavioral disorders is predictive of long term adverse outcomes. There are some indicated and selective early prevention programs for attention…

A multiple-case study of intersectoral collaboration in comprehensive school health promotion using the DIagnosis of Sustainable Collaboration (DISC) model

K.K. Pucher, M.J.J.M. Candel, N.M.W.M. Boot, A.J.A. van Raak, N. K. de Vries

Intersectoral collaboration is often a prerequisite for effective interventions in public health. The purpose of this paper is to assess the facilitating and hindering conditions…

Involving young people in changing their school environment to make it safer: Findings from a process evaluation in English secondary schools

Adam Fletcher, Natasha Fitzgerald-Yau, Meg Wiggins, Russell M. Viner, Chris Bonell

The purpose of this paper is to explore the process of involving students and staff on school action groups, and staff and student experiences of reviewing local data and…

Promotion of social and emotional competence: Experiences from a mental health intervention applying a whole school approach

Line Nielsen, Charlotte Meilstrup, Malene Kubstrup Nelausen, Vibeke Koushede, Bjørn Evald Holstein

Within the framework of Health Promoting Schools Up is an intervention using a whole school approach aimed at promoting mental health by strengthening social and emotional…

Health promotion in schools: a scoping review of systematic reviews

Roy Chilton, Mark Pearson, Rob Anderson

Schools are an important setting for a wide variety of activities to promote health. The purpose of this paper is to map the different types of health promotion programmes and…

“Change in schools it’s more like sort of turning an oil tanker”: Creating readiness for Health Promoting Schools

Belinda Gardner, Debbie Ollis

The purpose of this paper is to add to the evidence of best practice in the implementation of the Health Promoting Schools (HPS) framework by examining the process of creating…

Cyprus Health Education Curriculum from “victim blaming to empowerment”

Soula Ioannou, Christiana Kouta, Angeliki Andreou

Health promotion can fall into a victim blaming approach and put social pressure on particular students who could be marginalized due to their personal, economical, cultural…

Project on school staff health promotion in Poland: the first experiences

Magdalena Woynarowska-Soldan

The purpose of this paper is to present the concept, methods of implementation, results and experiences from the first stage of the three-year project on school staff health…

Socio-ecological school environments and children’s health and wellbeing outcomes

Yetunde O. John-Akinola, Saoirse Nic Gabhainn

Attention to improving the school environment is a common activity in school health promotion. The role of the school environment in supporting improved health and wellbeing has a…