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Cooper, Spring C.; Davies, Cristyn; McBride, Kate; Blades, Joanna; Stoney, Tanya; Marshall, Helen; Skinner, S. Rachel – Health Education Journal, 2016
Objective: Australia has implemented a nation-wide programme providing a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to girls and boys through school-based programmes. Previous research has identified three distinct areas for attention: (1) lack of understanding about HPV and HPV vaccination, (2) young people's desire for involvement in decision-making…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Microbiology, Intervention, Adolescents
Burns, Melanie C. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2018
Condom use among Australian adolescents has been shown to be variable, despite good knowledge among this group about sexual health risks and the promotion of condoms as a simple way to reduce the spread of sexually transmitted infections. This study explores dominant constructions of condom use within two Australian lifestyle magazines targeted…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Health Behavior, Periodicals, Health Promotion
Farrant, Brad M.; Harrison, Linda J.; Wise, Sarah; Smith, Grant; Zubrick, Stephen R. – Child Care in Practice, 2019
Child care centre attendance is associated with an increased risk of concurrent ear infections, but what is less clear is whether there are any positive or negative long-term effects of early child care attendance on the incidence of ear infections in later childhood. This research assessed the impact of early child care attendance on concurrent…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Child Health, Diseases, Risk
Ezer, Paulina; Kerr, Lucille; Fisher, Christopher M.; Heywood, Wendy; Lucke, Jayne – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2019
Sexuality education is a trusted source of information and guidance for adolescents and young people on sexual health, sexuality and relationships, and it can improve the sexual health of this population. Such education is most effective when informed by the views of young people themselves; however, there is limited research that investigates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Sex Education, Relevance (Education)
Page, Jane; Murray, Lisa; Cock, Megan L; Eadie, Patricia; Nossar, Victor; Niklas, Frank; Scull, Janet; Sparling, Joseph – Health Education Journal, 2021
Objectives: This study aimed to explore the impact of early health risks on young Aboriginal children's attendance in playgroups and their early learning outcomes. Design: The study used a cross-sectional design to identify associations between children's early health characteristics, their attendance at a Families as First Teachers (FaFT)…
Descriptors: Play, Health, Indigenous Populations, Attendance
Khan, Umar Raza; Khan, Ghias Mahmood; Arbab, Khurram – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2019 meant higher education was forced to delivering education online. For most, the transition to emergency remote teaching was a natural next step to support continuity of education. However, there were some examples where education remained on campus. Where after taking all COVID-19 safety measures of social distancing,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control, Hygiene
Colson, Natalie; Shuker, Mary-Ann; Maddock, Louise – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2022
Creativity is an important twenty-first century skill often overlooked in higher education curricula, particularly in the sciences. Students need opportunities to practice and demonstrate their creativity and gain an awareness of the importance of such skills to enhance their graduate capabilities. One way is to embed creativity into course…
Descriptors: Genetics, Collegiality, Science Instruction, Student Attitudes
Cho, Yoo Jin; Thrasher, James F.; Swayampakala, Kamala; Lipkus, Isaac; Hammond, David; Cummings, Kenneth Michael; Borland, Ron; Yong, Hua-Hie; Hardin, James W. – Health Education & Behavior, 2018
Background: Health warning labels (HWLs) on cigarette packs in Australia, Canada, Mexico, and the United States include varying information about toxic cigarette smoke constituents and smoking-related health risks. HWL information changed more recently in Australia, Canada, and Mexico than in the United States. Aims: To investigate whether…
Descriptors: Smoking, Health Behavior, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies
Sims, Margaret; Calder, Pamela; Moloney, Mary; Rothe, Antje; Rogers, Marg; Doan, Laura; Kakana, Domna; Georgiadou, Sofia – Issues in Educational Research, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an opportunity to examine the initial policies developed by Australian, Canadian, English, German, Greek and Irish governments to limit the spread of the virus. This has revealed governments' conceptualisation of the early childhood sector and its workforce. This paper argues that neoliberal ideology and…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control
Weir, Elizabeth; Allison, Carrie; Warrier, Varun; Baron-Cohen, Simon – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Autistic individuals may be at risk of premature mortality, and physical health comorbidity increases this risk; however, most studies fail to include older autistic adults or consider lifestyle-related factors that affect health. We developed an anonymous, online physical health survey. The final sample included n = 2368 individuals (mean age =…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Adults, At Risk Persons
OECD Publishing, 2021
The higher education experience was markedly different than usual for those enrolling during the COVID-19 pandemic. Higher education institutions of all kinds found their instructional methods profoundly disrupted by the closure of their physical campuses, and the crisis exposed the urgent need for policy makers and institutional leaders to adjust…
Descriptors: Higher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Swift, Valerie May; Doyle, June Elisabeth; Richmond, Holly Jane; Morrison, Natasha Rose; Weeks, Sharon Anne; Richmond, Peter Craig; Brennan-Jones, Christopher Gerard; Lehmann, Deborah – Deafness & Education International, 2020
The majority of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (hereafter referred to as "Aboriginal") people live in urban centres. Otitis media (OM) occurs at a younger age, prevalence is higher and hearing loss and other serious complications are more common in Aboriginal than non-Aboriginal children. Despite this, data on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Urban Areas
Amery, Rob – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
Following the invasion, or colonisation as some prefer to call it, Indigenous Australia has been characterised by plummeting populations, largely as a result of introduced diseases and the movement of peoples, following the theft of their lands and in response to colonial and subsequent Australian state and federal government policies. At times,…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Languages, Ethnicity
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2019
Childhood is an important time for healthy development, learning, and establishing the foundations for future wellbeing. Most Australian children are healthy, safe and doing well. However, childhood is also a time of vulnerability and a child's outcomes can vary depending on where they live and their family's circumstances. This brief brings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Family (Sociological Unit), Child Health
Durksen, Tracy L.; Martin, Andrew J.; Burns, Emma C.; Ginns, Paul; Williamson, Derek; Kiss, Julia – Journal of Museum Education, 2017
Museums promote co-learning through the construction of a social community, one that involves personal, physical, and sociocultural contexts. As researchers and museum educators, we report some of our contextual reflections and recommendations that emerged from our collaborative learning experience of conducting research in a medical science…
Descriptors: Museums, Medicine, Science Education, Partnerships in Education