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Siderio, Brianne – ProQuest LLC, 2023
STIs in youth in New Jersey is a growing concern. According to New Jersey' Public Health Data Resource (2020), the total number of STIs in youth from age 15-24 totals 19,698. The current STIs-related sex education programs vary widely in New Jersey in terms of scope, the accuracy of content, emphasis, and effectiveness (Thrive New Jersey…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Prevention, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Xiang, Lin; Diamond, Scott – Science Teacher, 2022
Over the past year, educators have developed curricula teaching about the COVID-19 pandemic (Reed 2020; Royce 2020; Sadler et al. 2020). Many of these curricula feature computer simulations of epidemic dynamics (Kelter 2020; Sadler et al. 2020). Because an epidemic pattern is an emergent property of interacting human behaviors, it is crucial for…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, COVID-19, Pandemics, Computer Simulation
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
Redican, Kerry J.; Akpinar-Elci, Muge – American Journal of Health Education, 2021
Background: One Health refers to the dynamic interdependence of human, animal and environmental health and provides a unique lens through which to examine health problems. Purpose: The purposes of this manuscript were: (1) to contextualize One Health in public health and health education; (2) provide examples of a One Health approach to…
Descriptors: Public Health, Health Education, Holistic Approach, Communicable Diseases
Smith, Kristie W.; Falbe, Kristina N. – Middle Grades Review, 2020
When we envision the ideals of middle school, we so often think about the importance of physical setting. Physical setting helps to create a material space for so many of the tenets of the middle school mindset. For example, "A successful (middle) school for young adolescents is an inviting, supportive, and safe place -- a joyful community…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Disease Control, Public Health, Disease Incidence
L. Brooke Friley – Communication Teacher, 2024
This original teaching idea for a semester-long course encompasses a team-based project in which students worked together to create persuasive campaign materials for a local community health organization. The purpose of this project was for students to apply learned concepts related to theories and principles of persuasion to a real-world…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Information Dissemination, Health Promotion, Communication Skills
Raffaella Ravinetto; Joyce Adhiambo; Joshua Kimani – Research Ethics, 2024
Research represents an essential component of the response to infectious disease outbreaks and to other public health emergencies, whether they are localised, of international concern, or global. Research conducted in such contexts also comes with particular ethics challenges, the awareness of which has significantly grown following the Ebola…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Ethics, Emergency Programs, COVID-19
Cuesta-Zigorraga, Amaia; Arrue, Marta; Labaka, Ainitze – Journal of School Health, 2023
BACKGROUND: Adolescents are more susceptible than originally thought to COVID-19, and they could play a significant role in community transmission. We aim to evaluate a health education program on students' declarative knowledge and risk awareness concerning COVID-19-related public health recommendations. METHODS: A quasi-experimental pre-post…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Health Education, Public Health, Knowledge Level
Weil, Audrey M.; Wolfe, Christopher R. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has been characterized by misinformation, politicization of public health, and extreme differences in risk assessment. In two studies, we sought to understand factors that contribute to differences in people's understanding of the virus and associated risks. We found that conservative participants reported higher levels of…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, COVID-19, Pandemics, At Risk Persons
Woodall, James; Freeman, Charlotte – Health Education Journal, 2020
This paper seeks to critically discuss the current state of health promotion, arguing that ambiguity remains in its conceptual foundation, practice and education, which is contributing to its decline in several parts of the world. Drawing on relevant literature, the paper re-examines the status of health promotion as a specialist discipline in its…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Health Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
M. Rajashekhar; Radhika Sharma; Abhishek V. Raut; Ashwini Kalantri; Subodh S. Gupta; The VCaN Collaboration Team – Health Education Journal, 2024
Introduction: The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a major challenge for countries, regardless of their level of development. Social branding is an emerging approach to health promotion for NCD prevention. In this paper, the process of social branding is documented as a case study to help researchers develop similar kinds of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Health, Health Promotion, Advertising
Micheline Senia; Kirsten Penrose; Chad A. Sutherland; Sean Horton – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted people around the world, partly due to the restrictions it imposed on social interactions. This impact was felt to a great extent by persons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and an intellectual disability (ID) who rely on 24-hour support to live in the community, and by their mothers, who remain…
Descriptors: Experience, Mothers, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults
Zheng, Yongyan – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This paper examines the multilingual translation efforts of a group of university student volunteers during the COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews of the volunteer team leader, team members, and a local community health worker. Findings identified time constraints, limited language proficiency,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pandemics
Kaden, Ute – Education Sciences, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic forced K-12 school closures in spring 2020 to protect the well-being of society. The unplanned and unprecedented disruption to education changed the work of many teachers suddenly, and in many aspects. This case study examines the COVID-19 school closure-related changes to the professional life of a secondary school teacher…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Public Health, Disease Incidence, Crisis Management
Panyaatisin, Kosin; Piyapasuntra, Suthasinee; Angkapanichkit, Jantima – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
This study aims to investigate the linguistic strategies used in public health communication during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the regulations stipulated by the Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) of Thailand. A corpus of 1.4 million words was retrieved from Thai online mainstream news media written in Thai, and…
Descriptors: News Reporting, COVID-19, Pandemics, Language Usage