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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
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Laura Alonso Martínez; María Begoña Vigo-Arrazola – Health Education, 2024
Purpose: Government's role and sex education are vital in promoting inclusivity and sexual health. To understand the impact that the legislation has had on sex education, it is necessary to evaluate it at the different training levels. Design/methodology/approach: The method used is a critical review aimed at comparing educational and state…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Educational Legislation, Social Justice
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Pietro A. Sasso; Susan Bruce; Lori Hart; Kayle J. Davis – New Directions for Student Services, 2024
Hazing prevention and education efforts continue to evolve in response to changing student behavior. The organic and anomic nature of hazing is deeply embedded in higher education, permeating across campus reinforced by cultural norms and institutional practices. While numerous approaches attempt to disrupt hazing, public health approaches,…
Descriptors: Prevention, Hazing, Student Behavior, Higher Education
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Quattrone, Filippo; Borghini, Alice; Emdin, Michele; Nuti, Sabina – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Higher education institutions (HEIs) worldwide have been deeply affected by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and subsequent lockdown measures. HEIs are environments at high risk of COVID-19 diffusion, due to the high number of people sharing the same environment, and complex to protect, because of the multiple functions present…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Higher Education, Public Health
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Wilcox, Melanie; Baker, Camille; Burish, Emily; Arnold, Renissa; Cherry, Megan; Moss, Tierra – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2022
Food insecurity (FI) is a leading public health concern yet is understudied amongst postsecondary students. A substantial proportion (34.4%) of our student sample reported FI; Black, low-SES, and low-SES women students were most likely to experience FI; and FI was related to poorer academic, health, and stress outcomes. Employee awareness was low,…
Descriptors: Food, Hunger, Poverty, Public Health
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Rebka Ephrem; Roshan Sapkota; Isaiah Dawkins; Patrick Faherty; Yael Sarig; Jason Peres da Silva; Julia Pierce; Ethan Epstein; Vincent Amato; Darby K. Melia; Nicholas Messina; Orly Richter; Mona Polavarapu; Jessica Chiu; Russell Paredes; Toni-Marie Achilli – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2023
Service-learning models serve as noteworthy curriculum paradigms that can help students engage with their communities while continuously learning. This article recounts the implementation of a service-learning model within a student initiative aimed to help combat vaccine hesitancy and promote the uptake of vaccinations within the Rhode Island…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Service Learning, Higher Education, School Community Relationship
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Racine, Elise E.; Bryson, Joanna J. – Health Education, 2022
Purpose: As illustrated by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), epidemic models are powerful health policy tools critical for disease prevention and control, i.e. if they are fit for purpose. How do people ensure this is the case and where does health education fit in? Design/methodology/approach: This research takes a multidisciplinary approach…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Models, Health Education
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Bautista, Stephanie – Journal of Student Affairs, New York University, 2023
Students of color continuously face systemic barriers, racism, and additional unique challenges as they try to navigate the U.S. educational system. Due to this, it is important to retain students of color within the higher education system to lower health discrepancies and quality of life barriers. This literature review will focus on the…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Higher Education, Public Health, School Holding Power
Line, David; Kohlmeier, Pamela S.; Mount, Sarah – Metropolitan Universities, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many physical, mental, and economic challenges and has provided an opportunity for academia to participate in community engagement to help support public health. Through a partnership between a university and a local health district, a contact tracing training program was developed and implemented in the late…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Disease Control, Training, COVID-19
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Brittany Marie Williams – New Directions for Higher Education, 2024
Although HIV rates are statistically stable, meaning the number of new acquisitions has remained relatively flat, the impact of the epidemic is uneven. Black women between the ages of 13 and 34 are more likely to acquire HIV, suggesting intervention during college is an ideal HIV mitigation strategy. Moreover, far too few Black women who could…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Higher Education, Females, Disproportionate Representation
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Chatteur, Fiona; Leppens, Mieke – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2023
This paper reports on the findings of a visual text analysis of selected infographics and data visualisations used in news websites during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sydney, Australia. Infographics and data visualisations used in news website articles disseminated and communicated local and national information to the public about the COVID-19…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries, Visual Aids
Barrus, Zachary; Campbell, Brett; Stanger, Kenadie – Utah System of Higher Education, 2022
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread to Utah in March 2020, the state's public colleges and universities took steps to mitigate the risk of infection to students and faculty/staff. Utah's degree-granting institutions shifted in-person coursework online in March 2020 for the remainder of the spring 2020 term, with the goal to protect students' health…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Learning, Technical Education
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Lee, Natasha – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2020
The current agenda in public health training in higher education works to produce well-trained public health professionals. Operating within a western pedagogical framework it aims to build a cohort of critical and analytical thinkers, skilful problem solvers and extraordinary communicators across key disciplines in health. Many graduates possess…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Health Personnel, Public Health
Parnia, Alex – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The opening of brick-and-mortar colleges and universities in fall 2020 will present a challenge due to the absence of a vaccine for COVID-19. With the reality of COVID-19 in mind, can we imagine clustering students, faculty and staff in residence halls, small classrooms, lecture halls and offices in fall 2020? What if COVID-19 flares up on…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Public Health, Crisis Management, School Closing
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Came, H.A.; Warbrick, I.; Doole, C.; Hotere-Barnes, A.; Sessa, M. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2020
Te Tiriti o Waitangi [te Tiriti] articulates the relationship between the government and Maori [Indigenous New Zealanders]. Universities have a responsibility to prepare graduates to work with te Tiriti. The literature on teaching te Tiriti is sparse. In this conceptual paper, we propose "he hokinga ki te mauri" [a return to vibrancy] as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pacific Islanders, Indigenous Populations, Public Health
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