Health Education: Volume 117 Issue 2

Nordic children’s conceptualizations of healthy eating in relation to school lunch

Linda Berggren, Sanna Talvia, Eldbjørg Fossgard, Unnur Björk Arnfjörð, Agneta Hörnell, Anna Sigríður Ólafsdóttir, Ingibjörg Gunnarsdóttir, Hege Wergedahl, Hanna Lagström, Maria Waling, Cecilia Olsson

Pupils’ perspective should be better taken into account when developing nutrition education at school. The purpose of this paper is to explore Nordic children’s perspectives on…

Stage-based healthy lifestyles program for non-college young adults

Jennifer Walsh, Kendra Kattelmann, Adrienne White

The purpose of this paper is to test the feasibility of implementing a healthy lifestyles intervention to maintain or achieve healthy weight for low-income young adults in…

Healthy universities: mapping health-promotion interventions

Juan Pablo Sarmiento

The purpose of this paper is to map out and characterize existing health-promotion initiatives at Florida International University (FIU) in the USA in order to inform decision…

Community participation in rural Ecuador’s school feeding programme: A health promoting school perspective

Irene Torres, Venka Simovska

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the debate concerning community participation in school-based health education and health promotion, with regard to food and…

Food and nutrition education in private Indian secondary schools

Neha Rathi, Lynn Riddell, Anthony Worsley

The current Indian secondary school curriculum has been criticised for its failure to deliver relevant skills-based food and nutrition education for adolescents. The purpose of…

Promotion of physical activity of adolescents by skill-based health education

Masoumeh Simbar, Zeinab Aarabi, Zohreh Keshavarz, Fahimeh Ramezani-Tehrani, Ahmad Reza Baghestani

Insufficient physical activity leads to an increase in chronic diseases. Skills-based health education methods are supposed to be more successful than traditional methods to…

Positive educative programme: A whole school approach to supporting children’s well-being and creating a positive school climate: a pilot study

Teuntje R. Elfrink, Jochem M. Goldberg, Karlein M.G. Schreurs, Ernst T. Bohlmeijer, Aleisha M. Clarke

The purpose of this paper is to report on a process and impact evaluation of the Positief Educatief Programma (Positive Education Programme (PEP)), a whole school approach to…