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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
Guillermo M. Wippold; Kaylyn A. Garcia; Sarah Grace Frary; Derek M. Griffith – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Introduction: Community health workers (CHWs) are health promotion specialists who are trusted members of the community served and have a close understanding of the community's needs and values. CHWs are a cost-effective and scalable workforce to promote health among men through tailored approaches. The purpose of the present review was to use the…
Descriptors: Males, Health Promotion, Intervention, Public Health
Jonathan D. Vorbeck – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Public health involves the organized efforts of society to prevent disease, prolong life, and promote health. These efforts are exemplified through partnerships across various public and private sectors, including academia, which are crucial in addressing complex public health challenges. An academic health department (AHD) is a formal partnership…
Descriptors: Public Health, Partnerships in Education, Knowledge Level, Health Services
Nicholas D. Myers; Ahnalee M. Brincks; Seungmin Lee – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2024
Physical activity promotion is a best buy for public health because it has the potential to help individuals feel better, sleep better, and perform daily tasks more easily, in addition to providing disease prevention benefits. There is strong evidence that individual-level theory-based behavioral interventions are effective for increasing physical…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Health Behavior, Health Promotion, Public Health
Waleed Sweileh – Health Education, 2025
Purpose: The study aims to analyze research trends and hotspots in the field of food and nutrition literacy to inform evidence-based policymaking, and promote the health and well-being of the general population. Design/methodology/approach: The Scopus database was used to retrieve relevant research articles using specific keywords related to food…
Descriptors: Foods Instruction, Nutrition Instruction, Health Promotion, Food
Nicholas D. Myers; Ahnalee M. Brincks; Seungmin Lee – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2025
Physical activity (PA) promotion is an ideal intervention target for public health because it has the potential to help individuals feel better, sleep better, and perform daily tasks more easily, in addition to providing disease prevention benefits. There is strong evidence that individual-level theory-based behavioral interventions are effective…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Adults
Ripper, Lisa; Figlar, Michelle; Smith, Tim; Gloster, Jerome; Dorn, Chad; Elliot, Jennifer Padden – Metropolitan Universities, 2023
Greater Hazelwood, a neighborhood located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, saw a decline in residents, businesses, and services at the steel industry's decline. Residents, philanthropic organizations, advocates, health centers, schools, universities, and community-based organizations continue collaborating to revitalize the Greater Hazelwood…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Health Promotion, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education
Kirsti Pedersen Gurholt – Sport, Education and Society, 2024
This article explores multilevel governance networking and innovation to better understand how nature-based public health can be promoted at a grassroot level within an urban context. Hence, the leading research question examines the "extent of networking and collaboration within state and municipal policymaking and the implementation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Youth, Public Health, Health Promotion
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
Erica Martinez Zumba; Karriem S. Watson; Paola Torres; Barbara Williams; Nasima Mannan; Lauren Green; Brenda Owens; Nicole Gastala; Rocio Bueno; Brenda Soto; Leslie Carnahan; Yamile Molina; Vida Henderson – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Community-engaged patient navigation safety net programs are established as an evidence-based approach to address cancer prevention and early detection efforts, but barriers to expand and sustain such programs persist. In addition, few studies describe how these programs impact buy-in among communities and policy change within health care systems…
Descriptors: Cancer, Community Health Services, Public Health, Preventive Medicine
Popova, Lucy; Li, Yachao – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
How people make perceived message effectiveness (PME) judgments remains mostly unexplored. This study assessed whether people need to spontaneously think about message effectiveness to report the message as effective on rating scales and investigated emotions as precursors to PME. After viewing one of four e-cigarette prevention messages, 1,968…
Descriptors: Adults, Health Promotion, Smoking, Psychological Patterns
Suzanne Trask; Pule Manuele; Losa Borne; Olivier Galy; Barry Potter; Jacquie Bay – Health Education Journal, 2024
Background: National school curriculum statements detail what it is important to learn and are highly context- and discipline-specific. The health and physical education (H&PE) learning areas have multiple learning purposes, and facilitating this in curriculum design is a significant and challenging task. Objective: There is little reporting…
Descriptors: Physical Education, National Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Health Education
Vázquez, Evelyn; Chobdee, Julie; Nasrollahzadeh, Niloufar; Cheney, Ann – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
This rapid qualitative exploratory study focused on perceptions of adopting risk-reduction measures, such as face masks, on campuses within institutions of higher education in the United States. It was intended to identify safety measures to reduce virus spread and develop community-informed public health messaging to promote COVID-19…
Descriptors: Freedom, Social Responsibility, Prevention, COVID-19
Maria Brann – Communication Education, 2024
When communication strategies of government and public health officials across the world during a crisis are unclear and incompetent, it can lead to confusion and increase fear and anxiety in the public. Health campaigns should be organized strategically and professionally, and must rely on creative briefs to develop communication strategies…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Public Health, Communication Strategies, Public Officials
Noah Lenstra; Nicole Peritore – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2024
This article introduces the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to the LIS community to propose a new way of thinking and teaching about how health is supported in public libraries. The topic of consumer health literacy has been a mainstay in the discourse of public librarianship, but we argue that this approach has not fully supported public…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Public Health, Partnerships in Education, COVID-19