Health Education: Volume 115 Issue 5

What health-related information flows through you every day? A content analysis of microblog messages on air pollution

Qinghua (Candy) Yang, Fan Yang, Chun Zhou

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the information about haze, a term used in China to describe the air pollution problem, is portrayed on Chinese social media by…

Parent voices guide smoking intervention development

Robyn Johnston, Lydia Hearn, Donna Cross, Laura T. Thomas, Sharon Bell

While parents’ influence on their children’s smoking behaviour is widely recognised, little is known about parents of four to eight year olds’ attitudes and beliefs around smoking…

Recruitment lessons learned from a tailored web-based health intervention Project Y.E.A.H. (Young Adults Eating and Active for Health)

Onikia Brown, Virginia Quick, Sarah Colby, Geoffrey Greene, Tanya M. Horacek, Sharon Hoerr, Mallory Koenings, Tandalayo Kidd, Jesse Morrell, Melissa Olfert, Beatrice Phillips, Karla Shelnutt, Adrienne White, Kendra Kattelmann

Recruiting college students for research studies can be challenging. The purpose of this paper is to describe the lessons learned in the various recruitment strategies used for…

Message testing to create effective health communication campaigns

Juliane Domigan, Tavis J. Glassman, Jeff Miller, Heather Hug, Aaron J. Diehr

– The purpose of this paper was to assess a health communication campaign designed to reduce distracted driving among college students within the USA.

Nutrition status of HIV+ children in Botswana

Maria Nnyepi, Maurice R. Bennink, Jose Jackson-Malete, Sumathi Venkatesh, Leapetswe Malete, Lucky Mokgatlhe, Philemon Lyoka, Gabriel M. Anabwani, Jerry Makhanda, Lorraine J. Weatherspoon

Identifying and addressing poor nutritional status in school-aged children is often not prioritized relative to HIV/AIDS treatment. The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the…