Health education for deaf Romanian children: parents’ opinions

2019 ◽  
Vol 119 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 341-349
Author(s):  
Laura Ionescu ◽  
Lacramioara Ursache ◽  
Adelina Nicolae ◽  
Adriana Conea ◽  
Cristian Potora ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
School Health ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Smoking Prevention ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Content Type ◽  
North West ◽  
School Based ◽  
School Health Education

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on parents of children with hearing disabilities from Romania and has three objectives. First, it assesses their characteristics regarding use of communication technology. Second, it investigates their opinions regarding the importance of school-based education for healthy lifestyle promotion among their children. Third, it evaluates the availability for their involvement in educational activities using face-to-face approach and communication technology dedicated to helping parents to promote healthy lifestyle among their children, as well as factors which influence this availability. Design/methodology/approach The study was performed in October–November 2015 in two schools deserving children with hearing disabilities from North-West part of Romania. Anonymous questionnaire were filled in by 182 parents. Findings The majority of parents recognize the importance of school-based health education and more than 77 per cent totally agree that it should include issues regarding healthy nutrition, promotion of physical activity and smoking prevention. In total, 80.2 per cent of the parents declared that they are interested to participate in educational activities organized periodically at school and 66.5 per cent declared their interest in educational activities developed through communication technology in order to help them to stimulate the adoption of healthy lifestyle among their children. The availability was influenced by residence, educational level, understanding the importance of parents’ involvement, characteristics regarding the use of communication technology. Originality/value This represents the first study from Romania investigating the opinions and availability for their involvement with regard to school health education among parents of children with hearing deficiencies. The results have several implications for health education among children with hearing deficiencies and their parents.

scholarly journals Parental engagement in school-based health promotion and education

2018 ◽  
Vol 118 (6) ◽  
pp. 513-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Spencer ◽  
Philip Hood ◽  
Shade Agboola ◽  
Catherine Pritchard
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Parental Support ◽  
School Health ◽  
Parental Engagement ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Education Professionals ◽  
School Based ◽  
School Health Education

Purpose Children’s health and life chances are affected by many factors, with parents and schools holding influential roles. Yet relatively little is known about parental engagement in school-based health education and specifically, from the perspectives of health and education professionals. The purpose of this paper is to examine professionals’ perspectives on parental engagement in school-based health education. Design/methodology/approach An exploratory qualitative study was conducted with ten health, education and local authority professionals from a socio-economically deprived area in England. Semi-structured interviews explored the role of professionals within the school health curricula, roles that parents played in school health, and barriers and enablers to parental engagement in school health education. Findings Reported barriers to engagement related to assumptions about parents’ own health behaviours, impacts of funding and inspection regimes, and protected time for health within the school curriculum. Enablers included designated parental support workers based in the school, positive role modelling by other parents, consultation and engagement with parents and a whole school approach to embedding health within the wider curriculum. Practical implications Findings from this study suggest the importance of building meaningful partnerships with parents to complement school health education and improve child health outcomes. Originality/value This paper addresses an important gap in the research on parental engagement in school-based health education from the perspectives of health and education professionals. Effective partnerships with parents are crucial to the success of school health education.

scholarly journals A study of the effectiveness of school health education programs on selected mosquito borne diseases: school based cross-sectional study

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 2728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayanthi Sureshbabu ◽  
Senthilvel Vasudevan ◽  
Priyanka Raj
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
School Health ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Control Programme ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
School Based ◽  
School Health Education

Background: School health education programs provide a convenient platform for engaging the students in health promotion activities. Public health problems like mosquito borne diseases cannot be controlled without active participation of the community and students are a resourceful component of the community who can be encouraged to take up activities to control mosquito borne diseases in the community.Methods: School-based cross-sectional study was conducted in December 2010 to March 2011 among 508 school students selected at random from students studying in the eighth to tenth standard. P < 0.05 was considered as statistically significant.Results: Totally 508 students were included in this study. The number of students unaware of the stages in the mosquito life cycle and the mosquito’s resting habits reduced from 420 (82.68%) to 19 (3.74%) and 103 (20.28%) to 13 (2.56%) respectively. The number of students with correct knowledge of the biting habits of the female mosquito and personal protection (PP) measures increased from 31.69% to 97.05% with statistically highly significant (p <0.0001) and 52.95% to 74.21% respectively.Conclusions: The present study suggested that the school health education program is effective in creating awareness and increasing the knowledge regarding mosquito borne diseases among school children and possibilities of successfully engaging the community at large in the fight against mosquito borne diseases. The need would be to sustain this activity and implement it in schools as part of the vector borne disease control programme.

Pre-service teacher perceptions of teaching health education online

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vaughan Cruickshank ◽  
Casey Mainsbridge
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Teacher Perceptions ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
School Health ◽  
Online Delivery ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Future ◽  
School Health Education ◽  
Personal Reflections

PurposeThe forced shift to online teaching delivery during COVID-19 suppression measures in 2020 was a complex challenge for Australian teachers. Teachers were given very little time to prepare online content and very little professional development to teach online. Their experiences prompted discussion about the abilities of pre-service teachers (PST) to adapt content to online delivery if another pandemic occurred while they were teaching in the future.Design/methodology/approachPST majoring in Health and Physical Education were required to adapt a 4-weeks high school health education unit for online delivery. This study analysed data from PST personal reflections and focus groups to gain a better understanding of their perceptions about teaching health education online and their confidence to adapt tasks and activities from face-to-face delivery or develop unique online tasks.FindingsPST reported varied confidence and competence to plan for and engage in online health education teaching. PST were concerned about student learning and engagement online, and unsure how to best differentiate activities to ensure all student could meet the intended outcomes.Originality/valueLittle is known about the confidence and competence of PST to deliver fully online school health education. It is important to know more about this phenomenon to inform teacher education and teacher professional development to ensure teachers are better prepared for online delivery in the future.

Relation and Correlation Between School Health Education and the Healthy Style of Living

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 68-84
Author(s):  
Marinella Grudeva ◽  
Nicol Doneva
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
School Health ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
School Health Education ◽  
Educational Factors ◽  
Main Components ◽  
The Relationship

The article examines the correlation and the relationship between students’ health education of in school and the healthy style of living. The essence of health education and its specificity as a relatively independent educational process is revealed. Emphasis is placed on the stages of its implementation. Some basic models of health education are considered. The normative conditionality of the health education in the school is justified as a proof of the state and society's concern for students’ health. The essence of a healthy lifestyle is clarified in detail, by analyzing its main components. It reveals the influence of the main educational factors on the health education and students’ healthy lifestyle.

Schooling health: the critical contribution of curriculum in the 1980s

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deana Leahy ◽  
Dawn Penney ◽  
Rosie Welch
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Education ◽  
School Health ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Content Type ◽  
School Health Education ◽  
Official Curriculum ◽  
Public Health Authorities ◽  
Historical Accounts

Purpose Public health authorities have long regarded schools as important sites for improving children and young people’s health. In Australia, and elsewhere, lessons on health have been an integral component of public health’s strategy mix. Historical accounts of schools’ involvement in public health lack discussion of the role of health education curriculum. The purpose of this paper is to redress this silence and illustrate the ways health education functioned as a key governmental apparatus in Victoria in the 1980s. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on governmentality studies to consider the explicit governmental role of official health education curriculum in the 1980s in Victoria, Australia. The authors conduct a discourse analysis of the three official curriculum texts that were released during this period to consider the main governmental rationalities and techniques that were assembled together by curriculum writers. Findings School health education functions as a key governmental apparatus of governmentality. One of its major functions is to provide opportunities to responsibilise young people with an aim to ensure that that they can perform their duty to be well. The authors demonstrate the central role of policy events in the 1970s and how they contributed to conditions of possibility that shaped versions of health education throughout the 1980s and beyond. Despite challenges posed by the critical turn in health education in the late 1980s, the governmental forces that shape health education are strong and have remained difficult to displace. Originality/value Many public health and schooling histories fail to take into account insights from the history of education and curriculum studies. The authors argue that in order to grasp the complexities of school health education, we need to consider insights afforded by curriculum histories. Historical insights can provide us with an understanding of the changing approaches to governing health in schools.

Pedometers and participatory school-based health education – an exploratory study

2014 ◽  
Vol 114 (6) ◽  
pp. 487-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Louisa Bruselius-Jensen ◽  
Dina Danielsen ◽  
Ane Kirstine Viller Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
School Health ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Content Type ◽  
School Health Education ◽  
New Perspective

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how pedometers (simple gadgets that count steps) can be used as tools in participatory health education to enhance primary school children's insights into, and abilities to reflect on, physical activity in their daily life. The paper focuses on how using pedometers fosters participation and enhances reflection concerning physical activity. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on findings from an exploratory project with sixth-grade classes (12-13 years) in four Danish primary schools. The approach is called Imove. In Imove, pupils use pedometers to study their own patterns of physical activity, transform their data into statistics, and use the statistical representation to reflect on how physical activity is integrated into everyday life patterns, and how different activities constitute an active life. Findings – The paper concludes that pedometers support pupils’ participation in studying their own health practices, and the step data provide new insights into, and encourage pupils to reflect on, the way physical activity is formed into everyday patterns. Research limitations/implications – The study is an exploratory one with four participating school classes. The findings need to be further explored by employing similar methodology in studies with more participants. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that pedometers support pupils’ genuine participation in health educational processes. Practical implications – The findings identify simple measuring technologies, such as pedometers, as potent assets in health education learning processes and call for creative thinking in developing health promotion programmes for young people. Originality/value – Measuring technologies play an increasingly critical role in health research, as well as in individual health regulating practices. This paper contributes with a new perspective by demonstrating the educational possibilities of applying pedometers in participatory school health education.

The desired learning outcomes of school-based nutrition/physical activity health education

2016 ◽  
Vol 116 (4) ◽  
pp. 372-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael James Ormshaw ◽  
Sami Petteri Kokko ◽  
Jari Villberg ◽  
Lasse Kannas
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
School Health ◽  
Curriculum Planning ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
School Based

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to utilise the collective opinion of a group of Finnish experts to identify the most important learning outcomes of secondary-level school-based health education, in the specific domains of physical activity and nutrition. Design/methodology/approach – The study uses a Delphi survey technique to collect the opinions of a group (panel) of Finnish experts. A list of learning outcomes was compiled via an extensive literature review of documents from all levels of health education (physical activity and nutrition) policy development and implementation. A general inductive analysis method was conducted, resulting in education themes which were then compiled into health literacy-constructed learning outcomes to present to the panel in the two Delphi rounds. Findings – The study question is answered in the form of a ranked list of the 24 most important learning outcomes of physical activity and nutrition education in Finnish schools. The analysis of variance pair-wise comparisons with Bonferroni indicated that six items were statistically possibly more important than the 18 others. The three most important items being: first, understand the importance of a varied and balanced diet; second, the ability to analyse their own lifestyle; third, understand the link between physical activity and health. The study also identified topics/themes which could be either under-represented or over-represented in the current literature and teaching. Originality/value – This study is the only one of its type, and researches an as yet unknown area of health education. The value of this study lies in its role in the further development of school health education, in terms of identifying the “most important” contemporary issues to teach in the classroom, and may also be used as a topic prioritisation and curriculum planning tool.

Assessing School Health Education Programs

1991 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence Dwyer ◽  
Rosalie Viney ◽  
Michael Jones
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Coronary Heart Disease ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Health Behavior ◽  
School Health ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Considerable Effort ◽  
School Based ◽  
School Health Education

AbstractThis review focuses on the component of health education directed at achieving changes in health behavior. Much of the work in this field has centered on health behavior that has a role in preventing future disease. Because the evidence is strongest in relation to coronary heart disease (17), considerable effort has been devoted to this area. Walter et ai. (34) indicated that the most relevant forms of health behavior to be considered in school-based programs on heart disease are those relating to diet, physical activity, and smoking. Programs relating to each of these behaviors are addressed here.

School Health Experience Before and After Completion of Pediatric Training

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 565-568
Author(s):  
Lance A. Chilton
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Health Services ◽  
School Health ◽  
School Health Services ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Health Training ◽  
School Based ◽  
Before And After ◽  
School Health Education

A questionnaire regarding school health training and current school-based activities was completed by 116 of 141 young pediatricians practicing in four southwestern states. Responses indicated that few (22.4%) were exposed to school health during their residencies, although most (65.5%) are now providing some school health services. Those who had had school health training during residency are much more likely to be providing services than those who did not. Likewise, durimig their residencies, few received instruction in methods of health education, though many, led again by those who had appropriate residency experience, now participate in school health education programs. Residency programius should provide training in school health to improve the pluysician's comfort and efficiency in the roles he is presently asked to play, and to increase his involvement in this critically important area of pediatrics.

From recipients to partners: children in malaria education in Uganda

2016 ◽  
Vol 116 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aisha Sembatya Nakiwala
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Malaria Control ◽  
Education Program ◽  
School Health ◽  
Health Education Program ◽  
District Health ◽  
Content Type ◽  
School Health Education ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation

Purpose – Health education that integrates community participation is essential for malaria control. However, children’s participation is not generally as active as that of adults, thus turning children into recipients, as opposed to partners in malaria control. The purpose of this paper is to develop a better understanding of how children can transform from mere recipients to active partners in malaria control efforts, by exploring the implementation of a school health education program in Uganda. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative multi-case study involving six schools where the health education program was implemented was undertaken, using six focus group discussions with 72 school children and respondent interviews with 14 teachers and district health promotion staff. Findings – Children acted as health messengers, offered peer support and engaged in environmental management to minimize mosquito breeding. The benefits of the school malaria program included increasing access to malaria information, boosting malaria knowledge, improving children’s self-esteem and their skill as health educators. However, implementation was undermined by hostility from adults, inadequate time and tight school schedules, which should be addressed in future malaria programs. Practical implications – The findings suggest that children can play an important role in malaria programs. Therefore, programs should be sufficiently structured to facilitate children’s participation. Practitioners should be encouraged to be conscious of the applicability of the health promoting school approach to malaria control. Originality/value – This research facilitated a more comprehensive understanding of the role children can play in malaria control, thus providing a basis for their involvement in malaria programs. It also adds to a relatively scarce area of literature on the school health-malaria control nexus.

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