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Download full textAllyson A. Spears; Alexis Zickafoose; Emily Wintermute; Peng Lu; Matthew T. Baker; Scott R. Cummings – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2025
Health and wellness are foundational to thriving communities, yet many Americans face barriers that impact their access to essential health education and services. This study used a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to assess the perceived strengths and needs of health and wellness resources of rural and urban Texas…
Descriptors: Public Health, Rural Areas, Urban Areas, Health Education
Direct linkKimberley A. Baxter; Nidhi Sachdeva; Sabine Baker – Health Education & Behavior, 2025
Health and behavior change programs play a crucial role in improving health behaviors at individual and family levels. However, these programs face challenges with engagement and retention and typically show modest efficacy. Cognitive load theory is an established and highly used educational theory that proposes individuals have a finite capacity…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Health Education, Behavior Change, Instructional Design
Madeline Quasebarth; Jessica Wilks; Yul Ailea Stites; Sophie Knifton; Vanya Manthena; Robin Michelle Cogdell; Mason Arrington; Patrick Jagoda – American Journal of Play, 2025
The authors describe Hexacago Health Academy (HHA) 2.0, a five-year summer intervention designed to increase interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) among mostly Black high school students in Chicago. The program features public health fundamentals and game design using principles of systems thinking, social-cognitive…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Summer Programs, High School Students, Games
Kathleen Quinn; Karrie Lindeman; Faye Wakenfeld; Kayla Finuf; Nancy LoPrete; Emily Burkert – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2025
The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of parent training via telehealth to decrease noncompliance in 3 children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder using the Applied Behavior Analytic (ABA) technique, Behavior Skills Training. Behavior Skills Training includes four critical components: instructions, modeling, rehearsal, and…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Medicine, Videoconferencing, Program Effectiveness
School Personnel's Experiences with Implementing Texas House Bill 114 on Vaping: A Qualitative Study
Haijing Ma; Ranier Perez – Health Education Journal, 2025
Background: In 2023, the US state of Texas passed a bill on vaping in school -- House Bill 114 (HB 114) -- which took effect in Texas public schools on 1 September of that year. HB 114 mandates that any student caught vaping in school be placed on a Disciplinary Alternative Education Program (DAEP). The efficacy of HB 114 may be contingent, at…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Smoking, Student Behavior, Public Schools
Cheng Deng; Maureen Legge – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2025
In Health and Physical Education (HPE) of the "New Zealand Curriculum," Outdoor Education (OE) is one of the seven key areas of learning. It has been taught in various forms because it includes a whole range of outdoor adventure activities and leisure pursuits. To better understand/interpret its nature and value in a New Zealand…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing (Composition), Elementary School Students, Outdoor Education
Illinois State Board of Education, 2025
Public Act (PA) 102-0522, effective August 20, 2021, created the Comprehensive Personal Health and Safety and Comprehensive Sexual Health Education Act and required the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) to adopt the National Sex Education Standards as the Illinois Learning Standards for sexual health education. These new standards went into…
Descriptors: Health Education, Sex Education, State Legislation, State Boards of Education
Kirsten Petrie; Marg Cosgriff; Lisette Burrows; Shane Keown; Joel Devcich; Jo Naera; Deirdre Duggan – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025
This book encourages primary school practitioners to think differently about the way in which health and physical education (HPE) is delivered in schools. Drawing on evidence from a long-term collaborative practitioner action research project, EveryBody Counts, the book shows that it is possible to challenge the orthodoxy and to reshape practice…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Health Education, Physical Education, Elementary School Teachers
Redican, Kerry J.; Akpinar-Elci, Muge – American Journal of Health Education, 2021
Background: One Health refers to the dynamic interdependence of human, animal and environmental health and provides a unique lens through which to examine health problems. Purpose: The purposes of this manuscript were: (1) to contextualize One Health in public health and health education; (2) provide examples of a One Health approach to…
Descriptors: Public Health, Health Education, Holistic Approach, Communicable Diseases
Tarsha Renee Stewart – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) threaten the quality and safety of the services provided. HCAIs are infections that occur while a patient is receiving treatment for another condition in any type of healthcare. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that approximately one in every 20 inpatients will become infected with an HCAI during…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Health Personnel, Nurses, Nursing Education
Eifert, Elise; Chaney, Beth; Redican, Kerry; Eddy, Jim – American Journal of Health Education, 2021
The "American Journal of Health Education" (AJHE) has been published for over 50 years. Over time, the mission and goal of AJHE have evolved from a publication focused primarily on school health issues in the United States to an international journal focused on chronic disease, and related lifestyle factors, for health education and…
Descriptors: Health Education, Teacher Responsibility, Teacher Competencies, Periodicals
Tarihoran, Dame Elysabeth Tuty Arna Uly; Honey, Michelle; Slark, Julia – American Journal of Health Education, 2021
Background: Stroke has the highest global burden of any neurological disease. Many studies investigate secondary stroke prevention strategies, but the outcomes remain poor, and the rates of recurrent stroke stay high. Purpose: This review synthesizes the existing studies that focus on educational strategies for stroke survivors to reduce their…
Descriptors: Prevention, Health Education, Educational Strategies, Neurological Impairments
Chipamaunga, 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
Johansson, Patrik; Tutsch, Sonja; King, Keyonna; De Alba, Armando; Lyden, Elizabeth; Leon, Melissa; Schober, Dan – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
Latinx populations experience health disparities and are underrepresented among health professionals. One strategy to address these health disparities includes increasing the proportion of Latinx health professionals. The purpose of this study was to examine barriers and facilitators for Latinxs in pursuing health professions careers in a…
Descriptors: Barriers, Health Occupations, Hispanic Americans, Disproportionate Representation
Newman, Laura – History of Education, 2023
There are multiple vantage points from which historians have observed the ways in which both diseased and healthy bodies (as well as their constituent parts) have served as tools of knowledge generation, instruction and coercion in the hands of medical practitioners. From spaces of formal, specialist education such as the medical school to more…
Descriptors: Historians, Teaching Methods, Educational History, Health Education
