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A Picture of Health
Ask any child in primary school to draw a healthy person and their drawings will have one thing in common: they will all show a person with a smile.
NEWS
A rising tide of teenage pregnancies and HIV infection among the young will result if the government fails to introduce a national sex education programme, the National AIDS Trust…
NEWS FOCUS
The fate of the campaign to ban tobacco advertising across Europe is hanging in the balance, following the outcome of the general election in the UK.
Maastricht and you
What has Maastricht got to do with health educators, apart from meaning they will probably be paid in ecu by the end of the century? Maybe a lot. While the UK celebrated its…
Periods of Anxiety
Sharon KingmanReports how schools could do better to help girls cope with theirperiods while at school. Considers problems arising in school when girlsare menstruating – problems of attitude as…
Lessons for good school meals
Sharon KingmanReports on the School Meals Campaign and its calls for nationalnutritional guidelines for school meals. Outlines a school meals projectin East Berkshire. Gives a brief historical…
Making a play for healthy minds
Douglas InchboldDiscusses the importance of learning about mental health at anearlier age to enable people to gain control over their own developmentand be able to understand and tolerate others…
Risky business
Margaret CollinsConsiders the meaning of “risk” as interpreted by youngchildren and whether they have the skills to weigh up the risk factorsof a situation and make a decision accordingly…
UPDATE
Over a million people worldwide have been newly infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) since April 1991, according to the latest report from the World Health…
REVIEW
Health, Lifestyle and Environment: Countering the Panic, a collection of essays published by the Social Affairs Unit, London, 1991, £9.95
FROM THE FRONT LINE Educating the masses: An anonymous account of the trials of life in health promotion
Keith slapped the newspaper on the desk. “Kids eat junk”. Banner headlines on a story of children lunching on chips, burgers, hot‐dogs and teeth‐rotting soft drinks since the…
ISSN:
0965-4283Online date, start – end:
1992Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Dr Gurpinder Lalli