Health Education: Volume 116 Issue 4

Intention of college students to receive the human papillomavirus vaccine

Keith Richards

The purpose of this paper is to better understand what influences the intentions of college students to receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. HPV is the most common…

Young women’s lived experience of participating in a positive youth development programme: The “Teens & Toddlers” pregnancy prevention intervention

Annik Sorhaindo, Kirstin Mitchell, Adam Fletcher, Patricia Jessiman, Peter Keogh, Chris Bonell

Evaluation of the Teens & Toddlers (T & T) positive youth development (PYD) and teenage pregnancy prevention programme suggested that the intervention had minimal…

The desired learning outcomes of school-based nutrition/physical activity health education: A health literacy constructed Delphi survey of Finnish experts

Michael James Ormshaw, Sami Petteri Kokko, Jari Villberg, Lasse Kannas

The purpose of this paper is to utilise the collective opinion of a group of Finnish experts to identify the most important learning outcomes of secondary-level school-based…

Mother’s health knowledge and its links with the illness and medical care of their children in India

Shraboni Patra, Arokiasamy Perianayagam, Srinivas Goli

The level of mother’s health knowledge influences not only her health, but also significantly predicts her children’s health and medical care, and spending on medical care. This…

Exploratory trial of a school-based alcohol prevention intervention with a family component: Implications for implementation

Jeremy Segrott, Heather Rothwell, Ilaria Pignatelli, Rebecca Playle, Gillian Hewitt, Chao Huang, Simon Murphy, Matthew Hickman, Hayley Reed, Laurence Moore

Involvement of parents/carers may increase effectiveness of primary school-based alcohol-misuse prevention projects through strengthening family-based protective factors, but…