Health Education: Volume 117 Issue 6

A social norms approach to changing school children’s perceptions of tobacco usage

Afzal Sheikh, Sunil Vadera, Michael Ravey, Gary Lovatt, Grace Kelly

Over 200,000 young people in the UK embark on a smoking career annually, thus continued effort is required to understand the types of interventions that are most effective in…

School lunch as a break or an educational activity: A quantitative study of Swedish teacher perspectives

Maria Waling, Cecilia Olsson

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to explore to what extent teachers eat together with pupils during school lunches and their attitudes toward using these lunches to…

Physician verbal compliance-gaining strategies and patient satisfaction

Janna Olynick, Alexandra Iliopulos, Han Z. Li

The patient healthcare experience is a complex phenomenon, as is encouraging patient compliance with medical advice. To address this multifaceted relationship, the purpose of this…

Exploring adolescent-parent interaction strategies for accessing alcohol at home

Emma Dresler, Dean Whitehead, Kelly Weaver

The purpose of this paper is to determine the extent to which youth have ready access to alcohol and the extent to which immediate family influence affects consumption.

An empirical examination of the ecological and cognitive active commuting framework: A social marketing formative research study

Bo Pang, Sharyn Robyn Rundle-Thiele, Krzysztof Kubacki

Evidence indicates that active school travel (AST) including walking can effectively lower levels of obesity among school-age children. Yet Queensland has been identified as one…

Pragmatic pilot cluster randomised control trial of a school-based peer-led anti-smoking intervention for 13-14 year olds in Malaysia: Process evaluation

Elniee Melson, Christopher Bridle, Wolfgang Markham

The purpose of this paper is to report the process evaluation of a pilot randomised control trial of an anti-smoking intervention for Malaysian 13-14-year olds, conducted in…