The study assessed the implementation of Kenya comprehensive school health pilot intervention program. This pilot program has informed the Kenya Comprehensive School Health Policy which is a critical document in the achievement of Millennium Development Goals relating to child health, gender equality, universal education and environmental sustainability. The study was based on focus group discu...

Epilepsy in children is frequently accompanied by learning, behavioural and psychological difficulties. These difficulties may be compounded by the ignorance and stigma which exists within the community health care and education services. The management of epilepsy in children therefore extends far beyond the use of antiepileptic drugs and must address these additional problems. The establishme...

V. Simovska and Patricia Mannix-McNamara (eds.), Schools for Health and Sustainability: Theory, Research and Practice, DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9171-7_18, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 Abstract The development of suitable approaches for evaluating health promotion in schools to produce useful evidence to enhance sustainability and transferability is still a major topic of discu...

CDF aimed at ensuring development in each constituency in Kenya. Despite having CDF, allocation Samburu West Constituency has not registered significant change in education and health services. The study aimed at assessing the extent to which CDF Results of the current study revealed that CDF has helped in improving health and education services at community level through, developing new dispen...

AMERICAN MEDICINE functions in an incongruous environment. The humanistic and intellectual challenges of a medical career have never been more stimulating , yet applications for admission to medical schools have been decreasing. Research activities are productive but financial support is reduced. Business and government impose competition and regulation on a profession whose purpose is to help ...

OBJECTIVE to evaluate the participation of adolescents in the Family Health Strategy, from the theoretical-methodological structure of an enabler to participation. METHOD a quantitative study, conducted from December of 2010 to March of 2011, with 213 professionals in the FHS in the region of Cariri-Ceará-Brazil. Data were collected through a questionnaire and organized in SPSS 18.0. RESULT...

It has been highlighted that youth empowerment and participation are important principles for school health promotion. Despite this fact, children and youth are rarely given instruments to participate or to influence their situations and the environments in their schools. Photovoice is a method to increased empowerment and participation. Originally it was created as a community action research ...

BACKGROUND Collaborations are important to health promotion in addressing multi-party problems. Interest in collaborative processes in health promotion is rising, but still lacks monitoring instruments. The authors developed the DIagnosis of Sustainable Collaboration (DISC) model to enable comprehensive monitoring of public health collaboratives. The model focuses on opportunities and impedimen...

This study investigates the relationships among social isolation, psychological health, and protective factors in adolescents. Feelings of social isolation may influence psychological health in adolescents, but protective factors such as family connectedness, school connectedness, and academic achievement may also play a key role. The sample included 4,746 adolescents from 31 middle and high sc...

INTRODUCTION Promotoras, Hispanic community health workers, are frequently employed to promote health behavioral change with culturally bound Hispanic lifestyle behaviors. Peer health mentors have been used in schools to promote healthy nutrition and physical activity behaviors among students. This study investigates the efficacy of combining these 2 approaches by training high school health me...