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- A health-promoting education system is one that Invests in leadership for school health Includes health and well-being in its measures of success Makes core budget allocations for health promotion in education
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Oct 5, 2015 · This paper provides an illustrated overview of participation rationales, with the aim to improve participation practice and research in health promotion. Methods. We conducted a critical review on typologies of rationales for participation.
- N Harting, B Fienieg, A Ungureanu, K Stronks
- 2015
- Introduction
- The Many Faces of Participation
- Case Study: ‘Young Minds’ Learning Through Participation and Action
- Funding
- Conflict of Interest Statement
Following the adoption of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child in 1989, the issue of children's and young people's ‘participation’ has become an imperative in research and educational initiatives in many countries in Europe and elsewhere. In the area of the health-promoting schools approach, this discourse has been reflected in ...
The term participation is associated with a number of related words, such as ‘taking part’, ‘involvement’ and ‘consultation’. Taking the dictionary (e.g. Merriam Webster) definition of the term as a starting point, it is possible to differentiate between two groups of interpretations: 1. (i) Participation in the sense of ‘taking part in’, i.e. ‘bei...
The case study draws on the educational development project Young Minds—exploring links between youth, culture and health. Young Minds is an international Web-based project in which students from a number of schools in different European countries collaborate on issues related to health. The project as a whole has been organized in different phases...
Technical Secretariat of the European Network of Health Promoting Schools, the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen.
None declared. The author would like to thank Keith Tones and the reviewers for helpful comments on an earlier draft of the paper. The doctoral study on which this paper is based analyzed the empirical material from the international educational project ‘Young Minds—exploring links between youth, culture and health’. The contribution of all the par...
- Venka Simovska
- 2006
Oct 9, 2018 · Health education is one of the methods used in health promotion, with health promotion extending beyond just health education. Models and theories that focus on understanding health and health behavior are of key importance for health education and health promotion.
- Hein de Vries, Stef P. J. Kremers, Sonia Lippke
- 2018
Nov 17, 2023 · Health promotion in schools is vital in developing countries to improve the health and well-being of students. This chapter highlights the achievements, quality considerations, challenges, and recommendations related to health promotion in schools.
Oct 28, 2015 · Long-term health gains are mostly an abstract concept for pupils of both primary and secondary school age, so they need to perceive other, more short-term (and non-health) gains from participating in a health promotion programme.
- M Pearson, R Chilton, K Wyatt, C Abraham, Tamsin Ford, Helen B. Woods, R Anderson
- 10.1186/s13012-015-0338-6
- 2015
- Implement Sci. 2015; 10: 149.
WHO promotes school health programmes as a strategic means to prevent important health risks among youth and to engage the education sector in efforts to change the educational, social, economic and political conditions that affect risk.
Health promotion in schools can improve children’s health and well-being. Among the most effective programmes are those that promote mental health, healthy eating and physical activity.
