Health Education: Volume 105 Issue 1

Editorial “Health for all”: an attainable goal or an idealistic dream?

Ray Marks

Reflects on the prevailing health inequities across the globe and attempts to address some of these global health determinants and related global injustices.

School‐based health education strategies for the improvement of body image and prevention of eating problems: An overview of safe and successful interventions

Jennifer A. O'Dea

The purpose of this paper is to review current programmes and major issues surrounding preventive interventions for body image and obesity in schools.

Tobacco prevention with Mississippi elementary teachers and students

Vivien Carver, Bonita Reinert, Lillian M. Range, Catherine Campbell

To examine a tobacco prevention elementary school project completed in 2000 in one rural state in the southeastern USA.

Awareness of message source and its association with the impacts of sun protection campaigns in Australia

Ben J. Smith, Adrian E. Bauman, Jeanie McKenzie, Margaret Thomas

To examine whether awareness of the source of sun protection campaigns in New South Wales, Australia was associated with message recall and sun protection knowledge and behaviours.

Toothbrushing at school: Effects on toothbrushing behaviour, cognitions and habit strength

Marianne Wind, Stef Kremers, Carel Thijs, Johannes Brug

To assess the impact of a school‐based toothbrushing intervention aimed at encouraging primary school children to brush their teeth daily at school, on cognitions, toothbrushing…

Prevention work with children disaffected from school: Findings from the evaluation of two innovative community‐based projects

Paul Gray, Toby Seddon

To report on findings from the evaluation of two innovative community‐based prevention projects in the UK targeted at children disaffected from school, one involving football the…