Health Education: Volume 117 Issue 3

Implementation of a Cooking Bus intervention to support cooking in schools in Wales, UK

Jeremy Segrott, Jo Holliday, Simon Murphy, Sarah Macdonald, Joan Roberts, Laurence Moore, Ceri Phillips

The teaching of cooking is an important aspect of school-based efforts to promote healthy diets among children, and is frequently done by external agencies. Within a limited…

Implementation of a health promotion programme: a ten-year retrospective study

Emily Joan Darlington, Carine Simar, Didier Jourdan

Implementing health promotion programmes in schools is key to improving children’s health and well-being but difficulties in achieving expected results are often reported in the…

Adolescents’ perceptions of alcohol

Amit Roy, Risto Ikonen, Tuula Keinonen, Kuldeep Kumar

Rising trends in alcohol consumption and early drinking initiation pose serious health risks especially for adolescents. Learner’s prior knowledge about alcohol gained from the…

The experiences of New Zealand-based children in consuming fruits and vegetables

Emma Dresler, Dean Whitehead, Aimee Mather

It is known that the consumption of fruits and vegetables in children is declining despite wide-spread national and international policy attempts to increase consumption. The…

Secondary school students’ views of food and nutrition education in Kolkata, India

Neha Rathi, Lynn Riddell, Anthony Worsley

School-based nutrition education programmes have the potential to reinforce healthy dietary behaviours in adolescents. The purpose of this paper is to understand the views of…

Teaching health education: A thematic analysis of early career teachers’ experiences following pre-service health training

Karen Pickett, Willeke Rietdijk, Jenny Byrne, Jonathan Shepherd, Paul Roderick, Marcus Grace

The purpose of this paper is to understand early career teachers’ perceptions of the impact of a pre-service health education programme on their health promotion practice in…