Schools are important settings for comprehensive health promotion. School exerts the most influence on the lives of children and youth. Schools can play a key role in supporting students’ health and, by extension, the health of their families and communities. This school-based cross sectional descriptive study was conducted in Danuphyu Township from June to November, 2012. This study aimed to i...

Background Well-informed interventions are needed if school-based health promotion is to be effective. Amongother aims, the Iranian Health Promoting School (IHPS) program that was launched in 2011, has an important aimof promoting dietary behaviors of adolescents. The present study, therefore, aimed to investigate the factors affectingunhealthy snacking of adolescents and provide evidence for a...

School-based programs should be a key component of a comprehensive community health promotion agenda. Youth who are ill, are physically inactive, use tobacco, or use other drugs are unlikely to succeed in school. Furthermore, the burden that chronic diseases place on our nation’s medical and economic systems will likely worsen unless we in public health are able to prevent the risk among our yo...

BACKGROUND This comparative study is intended to provide a better understanding of how health promotion services are organized in school settings in Europe and to show how health professionals involved outside or within the school setting help to improve young people's health. METHODS This study was based on an analysis of school health policies and the organization of school health services,...

Author details Department of Health Education and Promotion, School of Health, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Parvin Etesami Street, P.O. Box: 451578-6349, Zanjan, Iran. Department of Health Education and Promotion, School of Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 15875-6951, Tehran, Iran. Mental Health Research Group, Health Metrics Research Center, Institute for Healt...

BACKGROUND School-based interventions and campaigns are used to promote health and address a wide variety of public health problems. Schools are considered to be key sites for the implementation of health promotion programmes for their potential to reach the whole population in particular age-groups and instil healthy patterns of behavior early in life. However, evidence for the effectiveness o...

BACKGROUND Children's positive socialisation to alcohol is associated with early initiation of drinking and alcohol-related harm in adult life. Internationally, there have been reports of adults' alcohol consumption at school events in the presence of children. The aim of this research was to identify the conditions under which Australian schools are required to apply for a liquor licence and t...

This study sought to investigate the perception of quality of life and the importance of the physical, psychological, social relationships and environmental domains for overall quality of life for elementary education teachers in Florianópolis in the State of Santa Catarina. The sample was composed of 349 teachers of the (state and municipal) public school system who filled out a questionnaire ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the impact of a peer-led education program, developed in Australia, on health-related outcomes in high school students with asthma in Jordan. METHODS In this cluster-randomized controlled trial, 4 high schools in Irbid, Jordan, were randomly assigned to receive the Adolescent Asthma Action program or standard practice. Bilingual health workers trained 24 peer leaders f...