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Anna-Clara Rönner; Anna Jakobsson; Niklas Gericke – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic had an immense impact on communities around the world. We know that new epidemic-prone diseases will emerge in the future. Consequently, it is important to investigate what impact the current pandemic had on school children's understanding of infectious diseases in order to develop biology education based on that novel…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Communicable Diseases, Middle School Students
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Odenbring, Ylva; Lindén, Lisa – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2023
Since autumn 2020, boys in the fifth year of school (11-year-old students) in Sweden have been offered human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for free. Drawing from individual interviews with 21 school nurses working in primary schools in one of Sweden's regions, the aim of this study was to explore nurses' strategies and experiences of informing…
Descriptors: Males, Grade 5, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Immunization Programs
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Bohlin, Gustav; Höst, Gunnar E. – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2015
The present study explores the extent and precision of evolutionary explanations for antibiotic resistance in communication directed toward the Swedish public. Bacterial resistance develops through evolutionary mechanisms and knowledge of these helps to explain causes underlying the growing prevalence of resistant strains, as well as important…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evolution, Drug Therapy, Communicable Diseases