Health Education: Volume 116 Issue 2

School health promotion and teacher professional identity

Didier Jourdan, Carine Simar, Christine Deasy, Graça S. Carvalho, Patricia Mannix McNamara

Health and education are inextricably linked. Health promotion sits somewhat uncomfortably within schools, often remaining a marginal aspect of teachers’ work. The purpose of this…

Identifying barriers, perceptions and motivations related to healthy eating and physical activity among 6th to 8th grade, rural, limited-resource adolescents

Janavi Kumar, Koushik Adhikari, Yijing Li, Erika Lindshield, Nancy Muturi, Tandalayo Kidd

The purpose of this paper is to enable community members to discuss their perceptions of eating habits and physical activity in relation to sixth, seventh, and eighth graders, and…

Lessons in building capacity in sexuality education using the health promoting school framework: From planning to implementation

Debbie Ollis, Lyn Harrison

The health promoting school model is rarely implemented in relation to sexuality education. This paper reports on data collected as part of a five-year project designed to…

A confluence of evidence: What lies behind a “whole school” approach to health education in schools?

Felicity Thomas, Peter Aggleton

– The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the evidence base to support whole school approaches.

The relation of socio-ecological factors to adolescents’ health-related behaviour: A literature review

Annamari Aura, Marjorita Sormunen, Kerttu Tossavainen

The purpose of this paper is to identify and describe adolescents’ health-related behaviours from a socio-ecological perspective. Socio-ecological factors have been widely shown…

From recipients to partners: children in malaria education in Uganda

Aisha Sembatya Nakiwala

Health education that integrates community participation is essential for malaria control. However, children’s participation is not generally as active as that of adults, thus…