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Joyvina K. Evans – International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 2024
Preparing students enrolled in healthcare programs for industry is paramount. While providing administrative and clinical education is essential, students must understand the health literacy levels of the population they serve and work diligently to ensure the population understands and comprehends the health information. Adults with low or…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Literacy, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Carey, Alexis; Povey, Rachel – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
This report of the development of an intervention in practice outlines the design, delivery, and evaluation of a tailored, school-based, group adolescent sleep intervention utilising youth participation methodology and an intervention mapping protocol as a framework. The intervention also included supplementary video support. The intervention was…
Descriptors: Intervention, Adolescents, Grade 11, Sleep
Cale, Lorraine – Sport, Education and Society, 2021
Each year, the British Educational Research Association (BERA) Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy Special Interest Group organises an Invisible College which precedes the annual BERA conference. The day opens with a Scholar Lecture which is delivered by an academic who has made a significant contribution to the field. This paper represents the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Health Behavior, Life Style, Health Promotion
Heyes, Joshua M. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2022
Thinking sexuality education and religion together often results in antagonisms that pit religious and secular values against each other. Political theology provides new insights into this tendency by showing how modern concepts of political legitimacy are based on secularised Christian theology. Neoliberal schooling, public sexual health and…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Sexuality, Religion, Religious Factors
Universities UK, 2021
This guidance has been developed following a roundtable bringing together the sector with key agencies, drawing on behavioural research, effective practice and lessons learned from the past year. As students and university staff return to campus for in-person teaching and wider activities, it is important for universities to continue encouraging…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Health Behavior, Disease Control
Castelli, Darla M.; Welk, Greg; Brusseau, Timothy A.; McMullen, Jaimie – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2022
Comprehensive School Physical Activity Programs (CSPAP) coordinate physical activity opportunities for school-age children through physical education, programs offered before/after school and during the school day, and those facilitated through staff involvement and community engagement. An active school is considered to implement quality physical…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Education, Physical Activity Level, Evidence Based Practice
Taylor, Sarah; Owen, Michael – Health Education Journal, 2021
Background: Schools are ideal environments in which to conduct child and adolescent physical activity (PA) research. Despite this, PA-specific practical guidance for school-based research is lacking, which may present unique challenges to researchers. Based on reflections from our own experiences, this paper seeks to provide practical guidance on…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Data Collection, Educational Research, Elementary Schools
Zayapragassarazan, Z. – Online Submission, 2021
Behavior, social, psychological, and biological factors affect health and disease. It is widely recognized that behavioral and social sciences should become an integral part of medical training. Integrating behavioral and social science into the curriculum is a key issue emphasized in many research. Despite the critical role of behavior and social…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Health Sciences, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Abt Associates, 2022
This brief by Abt Associates discusses the application of digital tools to build capacity for both tracking activities and analyzing service quality and trends so providers can develop more responsive interventions. It describes the benefits of a CommCare-based, Abt-deployed Community-Based Events and Continuing Medication apps, developed for the…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Community Programs, Capacity Building, Intervention
Markham, Wolfgang A.; Dolan, Alan; Moore, Graham F. – SAGE Open, 2021
A framework for understanding relationships between school connectedness and student aberrant behaviors is outlined that is synthesized from Merton's insights into anomie and Bernstein's theory of cultural transmission (which focuses on schools' instructional methods and students' internalization of schools' values). A seven-category…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Aspiration, Student School Relationship
Linda Oshita – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2022
This reflective essay is written based on the author's experience as a study abroad program visiting resident director in Japan during the 2019-2020 academic year. As the resident director, the author served as the front line of communication and support for the international students on this program during an unprecedented crisis that impacted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, COVID-19, Pandemics
Kienen, Nadia; Wiltenburg, Thais Distefano; Bittencourt, Lorna; Scarinci, Isabel C. – Health Education Research, 2019
The purpose of this article is to describe the development of a theory-based, culturally and gender-relevant Community Health Worker (CWH)-led tobacco cessation intervention for low-income Brazilian women who augments the tobacco cessation program offered through the public health system using Intervention Mapping (IM). We began with the…
Descriptors: Smoking, Intervention, Program Development, Females
Moeti, Matshidiso R.; Munodawafa, Davison – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
Africa and most of the global south continue to experience a striking burden of communicable diseases, neglected tropical diseases, and high rates of maternal and child mortality, as well as disastrous internecine conflicts and floods. While Africa has been making steady progress in addressing communicable diseases, it now faces new threats from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Diseases, Risk, Disease Control
Gilbert, Jen – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2018
This paper explores discourses of affirmative consent in sex education curriculum and policy. It traces the ways in which discourses of consent have emerged in sex education debates, focusing first on the activism of two young women in Ontario, Canada who lobbied the provincial government to include discussions of consent in a new Health and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Informed Consent, Females
Åkerblom, Erika; Fejes, Andreas – Studies in Continuing Education, 2017
In recent decades education has been suggested as an important solution to current problems of the population's health. A high level of education in general is construed as essential for the nation's well-being and competitiveness. In this article we problematise the ways in which discourses on education, learning and health have become…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Interviews, Physical Activities, Health Promotion