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Direct linkMoreland-Russell, Sarah; Farah Saliba, Louise; Rodriguez Weno, Emily; Smith, Romario; Padek, Margaret; Brownson, Ross C. – Health Education Research, 2022
Public health agencies are increasingly concerned with ensuring that they are maximizing limited resources by delivering effective programs to enhance population-level health outcomes. Preventing mis-implementation (ending effective activities prematurely or continuing ineffective ones) is necessary to sustain public health efforts and resources…
Descriptors: Leadership, Competence, Program Implementation, Public Health
Katherine East; Eve Taylor; Erikas Simonavicius; Matilda Nottage; Jessica L. Reid; Robin Burkhalter; Leonie Brose; Olivia A. Wackowski; Alex C. Liber; Ann McNeill; David Hammond – Health Education Research, 2024
Public health campaigns have the potential to correct vaping misperceptions. However, campaigns highlighting vaping harms to youth may increase misperceptions that vaping is equally/more harmful than smoking. Vaping campaigns have been implemented in the United States and Canada since 2018 and in England since 2017 but with differing focus: youth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Smoking, Public Health
Naomi Schwartz; Theresa Poon; David Hammond; Erin Hobin – Health Education Research, 2024
This study investigated whether noticing cannabis education campaigns was associated with increased cannabis risk perceptions in Canada's three territories following non-medical cannabis legalization. Data were from the Cannabis Policy Study in the Territories, including 2452 participants, age [greater than or equal to]16 years residing in Yukon,…
Descriptors: Public Health, Marijuana, Risk, Foreign Countries
Lester, Drew; Torgerson, Trevor; Eyabi, Jorgen; Wayant, Cole; Vassar, Matt – Health Education Research, 2021
The number of American adults who use electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) increased by 3 million people in 2018, up 38.3% from 8.1 to 11.2 million. Search data for ENDS were analyzed against relevant traits including state longitude, tobacco tax rate and national tobacco program funding. Searches increased 88% (95% CI, 70-100) over the…
Descriptors: Smoking, Public Health, Search Strategies, Online Searching
Huq, Maisha R.; He, Xin; Woodard, Nathaniel; Chen, Chang; Knott, Cheryl L. – Health Education Research, 2023
Community health advisors (CHAs) play a key role in promoting health in medically underserved communities, including in addressing cancer disparities. There is a need to expand the research on what characteristics make for an effective CHA. We examined the relationship between CHA personal and family history of cancer, and implementation and…
Descriptors: Public Health, Cancer, Workshops, Genetics
Thacker, J.; Sturman, D.; Auton, J. – Health Education Research, 2021
Pandemics are associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality, and the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has been the most fatal coronavirus outbreak of the 21st century. To reduce person-to-person transmission, interventions such as social distancing have been recommended; however, it is anticipated that 80% compliance is required to…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Compliance (Psychology), Public Health, Foreign Countries
Li, Yachao; Guan, Mengfei; Hammond, Paige; Berrey, Lane E. – Health Education Research, 2021
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, TikTok, an emerging social media platform, has created an information hub to provide users with engaging and authoritative COVID-19 information. This study investigates the video format, type and content of the COVID-19 TikTok videos, and how those video attributes are related to quantitative indicators of user…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Social Media, Information Dissemination
Zhu, Zhong-kun; Leng, Chen-xin; Chen, Shu-long; Zheng, Yu-xuan; Chen, Dan-qing – Health Education Research, 2022
This study investigates the effect of public health education (PHE) on migrant workers' health status in China, using the data collected from the China Migrants Dynamic Survey project. The analysis employs a probit model, whose results suggest that, in general, PHE has a statistically significant and positive impact on migrant workers' self-rated…
Descriptors: Public Health, Health Education, Foreign Countries, Migrant Workers
Yoong, Sze Lin; Bolsewicz, Katarzyna; Grady, Alice; Wyse, Rebecca; Sutherland, Rachel; Hodder, Rebecca Kate; Kingsland, Melanie; Nathan, Nicole; McCrabb, Sam; Bauman, Adrian; Wiggers, John; Moullin, Joanna; Albers, Bianca; Fernandez, Maria E.; Hall, Alix; Sims-Gould, Joanie; Taylor, Natalie; Rissel, Chris; Milat, Andrew; Bailey, Andrew; Batchelor, Samantha; Attia, John; Wolfenden, Luke – Health Education Research, 2020
While there is some guidance to support the adaptation of evidence-based public health interventions, little is known about adaptation in practice and how to best support public health practitioners in its operationalization. This qualitative study was undertaken with researchers, methodologists, policy makers and practitioners representing public…
Descriptors: Public Health, Intervention, Evidence Based Practice, Program Implementation
Maria Ferrara; Elisa Langiano; Maurizio Esposito; Giuseppina Lo Moro; Rosalia Lombardi; Pia Vuolanto; Elisabetta De Vito – Health Education Research, 2024
The VAX-TRUST project addresses vaccine hesitancy in seven European countries with a systematic and evidence-based approach. Interventions, targeting healthcare professionals, draw from behavioural and social theories. A checklist, inspired by the TIDieR (Template for Intervention Description and Replication), ensures a detailed description of…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Immunization Programs, Public Health, Program Descriptions
Lyu, Joanne Chen; Wang, Di; Mao, Zhifei; Ling, Pamela M – Health Education Research, 2021
This study conducted a content analysis of 639 news articles about e-cigarettes in China from 2004-2019 to examine longitudinal changes in media frames and media tones about e-cigarettes in Chinese newspapers. Results indicated that policy frame was the most frequently used frame, followed by human impact frame, information frame, and uncertainty…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Smoking, Electronic Equipment, Newspapers
Bora, Kaustubh; Pagdhune, Avinash; Patgiri, Saurav Jyoti; Barman, Bhupen; Das, Dulmoni; Borah, Probodh – Health Education Research, 2021
Social media offers an opportune platform for educating the public about the recommended interventions during global health emergencies. This case study evaluated information in the popular social media platform YouTube about two key interventions (namely, 'social distancing' and 'hand washing') recommended during coronavirus disease-2019. Using…
Descriptors: Social Media, Health Education, Public Health, COVID-19
Vallone, Donna M.; Perks, Siobhan N.; Pitzer, Lindsay; Liu, Michael; Kreslake, Jennifer M.; Rath, Jessica M.; Hair, Elizabeth C. – Health Education Research, 2021
Mass media campaigns are an effective population-level intervention for preventing tobacco use. However, little evidence exists for whether these campaigns similarly influence demographic subgroups. This study examined the effects of the truth® campaign to reduce tobacco use among demographic subgroups. We used data from a national, continuous,…
Descriptors: Prevention, Smoking, Public Health, Health Behavior
Rodon, Carole; Chin, Jessie; Chevalier, Aline – Health Education Research, 2022
Health literacy (HL) is critical to find, understand and use health information for adopting appropriate health behavior, especially during a pandemic crisis in which people can be exposed to an overwhelming amount of information from different media. To this end, we conducted an online study to first validate the measure of COronaVIrus Disease…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Knowledge Level, Health, Foreign Countries
Song, Yunya; Wang, Sai; Xu, Qian – Health Education Research, 2022
Designing corrective messages to debunk misinformation online is an important practice toward ending the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic as health-related misinformation has proliferated on social media misguiding disease prevention measures. Despite research on the use of statistical evidence and message modality in persuasion, the…
Descriptors: Social Media, Deception, Computer Mediated Communication, COVID-19
