Health Education: Volume 114 Issue 4

Health promoting schools: initiatives in Africa

Andrew J. Macnab, Donald Stewart, Faith A. Gagnon

– The purpose of this paper is to describe the rationale for and potential of World Health Organization (WHO) health promoting schools (HPS) in Africa.

External stakeholders and health promoting schools: complexity and practice in South Africa

Rika Preiser, Patricia Struthers, Suraya Mohamed, Neil Cameron, Estelle Lawrence

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of two higher education institutions in the Western Cape, South Africa, and how their initiatives and collaboration brought about…

Activities for engaging schools in health promotion

Mohammad Bardi, Andrea Burbank, Wayne Choi, Lawrence Chow, Wesley Jang, Dawn Roccamatisi, Tonia Timberley-Berg, Mandeep Sanghera, Margaret Zhang, Andrew J. Macnab

– The purpose of this paper is to describe activities used to initiate health promotion in the school setting.

School food gardens: fertile ground for education

Moira Beery, Rachel Adatia, Orsola Segantin, Chantal-Fleur Skaer

– The purpose of this paper is to respond to food insecurity and environmental sustainability through school food gardens in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Oral health promotion in schools: rationale and evaluation

Alex Kizito, Meredith Caitlin, Yili Wang, Arabat Kasangaki, Andrew J. Macnab

The purpose of this paper is to explain the rationale and potential for the WHO health promoting schools (HPS) to improve children ' s oral health, and describe validated…

Adolescent-friendly technologies as potential adjuncts for health promotion

Janan J. Dietrich, Jenny Coetzee, Kennedy Otwombe, Sanele Mdanda, Busisiwe Nkala, Matamela Makongoza, Celokhuhle Tshabalala, Stefanie Hornschuh, Christine N. Soon, Angela Kaida, Robert Hogg, Glenda E. Gray, Cari L. Miller

– The purpose of this paper is to measure prevalence and predictors of mobile phone access and use among adolescents in Soweto, South Africa.