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Direct linkChipamaunga, Shalote; Nyoni, Champion Nestai; Kagawa, Mike Nantamu; Wessels, Quenton; Kafumukache, Elliot; Gwini, Rudo; Kandawasvika, Gwendoline; Katowa-Mukwato, Patricia; Masanganise, Rangarirai; Nyamakura, Rudo; Nyawata, Idah; Pretorius, Louise; Dithole, Kefalotse; Marimo, Clemence; Mubuuke, Aloysius Gonzaga; Mbalinda, Scovia Nalugo; van der Merwe, Lynette Jean; Prozesky, Detlef – Smart Learning Environments, 2023
Background: Africa, like other parts of the world, continuously strives to deliver quality health professions education. These efforts are influenced to a larger extent by the socio-economic and cultural context of the region, but also by what happens globally. The global disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 necessitated the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Health Education, Foreign Countries
Adilson Marques, Editor; Élvio Rúbio Gouveia, Editor; Katherine Meltzoff, Editor – IntechOpen, 2025
This book emphasizes the role of physical education in shaping individuals and society, extending beyond movement to promote holistic well-being -- physical, mental, and emotional. In an era of sedentary lifestyles and digital distractions, the book emphasizes the urgent need for physical education to cultivate lifelong habits that foster health…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Life Style, Health Promotion, Physical Activities
Yarmoshuk, Aaron N.; Cole, Donald C.; Mwangu, Mughwira; Guantai, Anastasia Nkatha; Zarowsky, Christina – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
Interuniversity global health partnerships are often between parties unequal in organizational capacity and performance using conventional academic output measures. Mutual benefit and reciprocity are called for but literature examining these concepts is limited. The objectives of this study are to analyse how reciprocity is practiced in…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Health Education, Partnerships in Education
Morrish, Daniel; Neesam, Marc – Prospects, 2021
The response to the COVID-19 pandemic raises a question about the role of national curriculum frameworks in acquiring and applying knowledge about hygiene and prevention of disease. For curriculum designers, this means determining what children of different ages should learn about these topics and how they should develop and apply this knowledge.…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Hygiene, Diseases
Download full textHeller, Richard F.; Strobl, Judith; Madhok, Rajan – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
People's Open Access Education Initiative (Peoples-uni, http://peoples-uni.org) aims to contribute to improvements in the health of populations in low- to middle-income countries by building public health capacity via e-learning at affordable cost. We describe experience over nine years of the initiative, including the development and delivery of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Online Courses, Public Health, Health Education
Okatch, Dorothy – Childhood Education, 2021
Young people in East and Southern Africa need greater access to reliable information about health and education in order to make informed decisions on health matters--focusing on HIV and teenage pregnancy--and to increase basic education outcomes. Young 1ove organization, established in March 2014 in Gaborone, Botswana, is a grassroots, youth-led,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Education, Health Promotion, Peer Teaching
Sani, A. Sadiq; Abraham, Charles; Denford, Sarah; Mathews, Catherine – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2018
This study investigated facilitators and challenges to designing, implementing and evaluating school-based sexual health education in sub-Saharan Africa, using interviews with intervention designers and researchers. At the pre-planning and planning stages, participants reported that facilitating factors included addressing the reproductive health…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Health Education, Safety, Contraception
Bruce, Elizabeth R. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2018
The "Ministerial Commitment on Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Sexual and Reproductive Health Services for Adolescents and Young People in Eastern and Southern Africa" ("ESA"), or the ESA Commitment, was affirmed December 7, 2013, by 21 countries located across this region during the 17th International Conference on AIDS…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Health Services, Sexuality, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Population Council, 2018
The Population Council is building one of the world's largest bodies of research on programs to improve the lives of adolescents, especially girls. For the past two decades, the Council has been identifying best practices, refining the critical elements of girl-centered programs, and using rigorous evidence to help decisionmakers allocate scarce…
Descriptors: Females, Best Practices, Resource Allocation, Program Development
Jenkins, Carolyn; Arulogun, Oyedunni Sola; Singh, Arti; Mande, Aliyu T.; Ajayi, Eric; Benedict, Calys Tagoe; Ovbiagele, Bruce; Lackland, Daniel T.; Sarfo, Fred Stephen; Akinyemi, Rufus; Akpalu, Albert; Obiako, Reginald; Melikam, Enzinne Sylvia; Laryea, Ruth; Shidali, Vincent; Sagoe, Kwamena; Ibinaiye, Philip; Fakunle, Adekunie Gregory; Owolabi, Lukman F.; Owolabi, Mayowa O. – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
Stroke is the leading cause of neurological hospital admissions in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the second leading cause of death globally. The Stroke Investigative Research and Education Network [SIREN] seeks to comprehensively characterize the genomic, sociocultural, economic, and behavioral risk factors for stroke and to build effective teams…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neurological Impairments, Medical Research, Health Education
Stewart, Donald – Health Education, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of an Australian health promoting schools (HPS) project to identify key features of the concept of resilience and how it can be used in a school setting to develop and strengthen protective factors in young people, as a mechanism for improving social functioning and reducing involvement in…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Comprehensive School Health Education, Literature Reviews, Grade 3
Brodmann, Stefanie; Devoto, Florencia; Galasso, Emanuela – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
In Djibouti, extreme poverty was 41.9% and relative poverty 79.4% according to the poverty profile elaborated by the national statistical office (DISED) in 2012. Malnutrition remains high in Djibouti, and comparable to Sub-Saharan countries, with 29.7% of children under the age of five chronically malnourished, 29.6% underweight, and over 17.8% of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nutrition, Nutrition Instruction, Welfare Recipients
Chimalizeni, Michael; Chimwaza, Gracian; Chataira, Blessing; Msengezi, Chipo – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2014
This article shares the experience and lessons learned by Information Training and Outreach Center for Africa (ITOCA) in rolling out an on-line distance learning course. Key objectives were to explore the efficacy of online courses in increasing skills and awareness of electronic resources access initiatives. This is in the context of responding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outreach Programs, Health Education, Scientific and Technical Information
Miller, Kim S; Winskell, Kate; Berrier, Faith L – Health Education Journal, 2016
Objectives: The past decade has seen changes in US HIV policy in sub-Saharan Africa in response to a new Administration and far-reaching technical, scientific and programmatic developments. These include dramatically increased access to life-saving anti-retroviral therapy (ART) and related services, the roll-out of voluntary medical male…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Surveys, Intervention, Parents
Picot, Joanna; Shepherd, Jonathan; Kavanagh, Josephine; Cooper, Keith; Harden, Angela; Barnett-Page, Elaine; Jones, Jeremy; Clegg, Andrew; Hartwell, Debbie; Frampton, Geoff K. – Health Education Research, 2012
We systematically reviewed school-based skills building behavioural interventions for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections. References were sought from 15 electronic resources, bibliographies of systematic reviews/included studies and experts. Two authors independently extracted data and quality-assessed studies. Fifteen randomized…
Descriptors: Evidence, Intervention, Health Education, Self Efficacy
