Health Education: Volume 121 Issue 4

Rural–urban drift: labour migration, health-seeking behaviour disparity in the urban slum of Madina, Ghana

Ransford Kwaku Afeadie

The health challenges that characterise most of the migrants' urban slums raises a lot of concern for their well-being. Health-seeking behaviour becomes an important step towards…

Challenging sustainability in school-based intervention in Nicaragua

Jonathan Pettigrew, Robert Razzante, Joshua Allsup, Yu Lu, Colter D. Ray

The current study identifies successes and limitations of sustaining Dale se Real (DsR) as a school-based educational intervention program related to drugs and violence for 7th…

Education-smoking gradient and upstream health policies: comparing Generation X with millennials

Maryam Dilmaghani

Over the years, many upstream health policies have sought to reduce smoking across populations. While smoking has been substantially reduced, the effects of these policies on…

Tackling student drinking within the drinking subculture of a university sports competition: a culture change approach

Robyn Ramsden, Delwyn Hewitt, Joanne Williams, Lee Emberton, Catherine Bennett

This paper explores the impact of a suite of alcohol culture change interventions implemented by Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. The interventions were designed to…

Adolescents' experiences of menarche and menstruation in disadvantaged schools in South Africa: a qualitative exploration

Thelma Fennie, Mokgadi Moletsane, Anita Padmanabhanunni

This study explores how menstruation is perceived, experienced and navigated by school-going adolescent girls living in low-to-middle income settings in South Africa. Existing…

Examining the intention to stay home due to COVID-19: a pandemic's second wave outlook

Bahadur Ali Soomro, Naimatullah Shah

At present, almost the whole globe is facing a severe threat of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The present study examines the intention to stay home due to COVID-19 during a…

Differences in tobacco smoking status in segments of the Australian population

Julian de Meyrick, Farhat Yusuf

The purpose of this study is to identify correlates of tobacco smoking behaviour across various socio-demographic segments of the Australian population.

Food and nutrition education in Australian primary schools: parents' views

Gozde Aydin, Alison Booth, Claire Margerison, Anthony Worsley

Primary schools provide continuous, intensive contact with large numbers of children starting from a young age, thus providing an appropriate setting for the promotion of healthy…