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Reid, Amy; Abraczinskas, Michelle; Scott, Victoria; Stanzler, Morgen; Parry, Gareth; Scaccia, Jonathan; Wandersman, Abe; Ramaswamy, Rohit – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Spreading Community Accelerators Through Learning and Evaluation (SCALE) was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded initiative from 2015 to 2017 to build capability of 24 community coalitions to advance health, well-being, and equity. The SCALE theory of change had three components: develop leadership capability, build relationships within and…
Descriptors: Public Health, Well Being, Community Programs, Community Cooperation
de los Reyes, Gastón, Jr. – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
This commentary highlights the challenges and opportunities facing institutional entrepreneurship in the digital public health realm. The institutional entrepreneurship of public health researchers concerns the opportunity to improve the norms regulating social media companies by engaging the public and private sectors. Beyond the clarification of…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Public Health, Entrepreneurship, Social Media
Asada, Yuka; Gilmet, Kelsey; Welter, Christina; Massuda-Barnett, Gina; Kapadia, Devangna A.; Fagen, Michael – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Structural change approaches, also called policy, systems, and environmental change approaches, have been increasingly promoted and adopted by public health agencies in the past decade. These interventions require attention to multilevel, complex and contextual influences on individual and community health outcomes, requiring a sound theoretical…
Descriptors: Counties, Change, Theories, Public Health
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
Collier, Daniel A.; Fitzpatrick, Dan; Dell, Madison; Snideman, Samuel S.; Marsicano, Christopher R.; Kelchen, Robert; Wells, Kevin E. – Research in Higher Education, 2022
Postsecondary institutions' responses to COVID-19 are a topic of immediate relevance. Emergent research suggests that partisanship was more strongly linked to institutions offering in-person instruction for Fall 2020 than was COVID-19. Using data from the College Crisis Initiative and a multiple group structural equation modeling approach, we…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Conventional Instruction, Social Influences
Tang, Chris – Applied Linguistics, 2022
Periods of extremely hot and cold weather can cause significant mortality and morbidity in both temperate and more extreme climates. In the UK, their occurrence prompts the issuing of number and colour coded warnings providing an assessment of the level of risk. These are designed to minimize health impact by prompting timely and appropriate…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Weather, Cues, Numbers
Trygstad, Peggy J.; Smith, P. Sean – Horizon Research, Inc., 2022
This policy brief summarizes results from a survey of over 2,000 K-12 science teachers regarding their instruction related to COVID-19. Teachers were surveyed in the spring of 2020 shortly after school buildings closed. In addition, 40 teachers were interviewed. The brief also discusses implications and recommendations. [This brief is derived from…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Role, Public Health, Health Promotion
Jones, Denise; Darsow, Eric; Jones, Dennis F. – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2020
Young people's involvement in community-based research is a well-established interventional model, but not nearly as widespread as it should be. Although young people have valuable insights to share, their voices are often missing from the research process. To address this void, Youth Enrichment Services (YES) engages youth from under-resourced…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Geographic Information Systems, Open Source Technology, Public Health
Watson, Jane; Callingham, Rosemary – Australian Mathematics Education Journal, 2020
The current COVID-19 situation has seen a plethora of data, statistics and predictions presented to society--some making incredible claims. The authors are concerned that statistics and probability still receive inadequate attention in the classroom, leaving students without the statistical literacy needed to make sense of the claims being made.…
Descriptors: Statistics, Mathematics Education, Curriculum, Knowledge Level
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
Laestadius, Linnea I.; Penndorf, Kendall; Seidl, Melissa; Pokhrel, Pallav; Patrick, Ryan; Cho, Young Ik – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Social media platforms are home to large volumes of ambiguous hashtag-based claims about the health, modified-risk, and cessation benefits of electronic cigarette products (e.g., #Vapingsavedmylife). The objective of this study was to qualitatively explore how young adults interpret these hashtags on the popular platform Instagram. Specifically,…
Descriptors: Social Media, Young Adults, Health, Smoking
Felner, Jennifer K. – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Participatory action research (PAR), community-based participatory research, and other participatory approaches continue to gain popularity within the field of public health and allied disciplines in an effort to democratize the production of knowledge and contribute to sustainable community health improvements. Consequently, more students and…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, Educational Benefits, Public Health
Cahapay, Michael B. – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2020
As educational systems begin to resume operations amid and after the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis, there is a complicated imagination of how learning will take place in what kind of space. Drawing ideas from the experiences of selected countries as well as relevant theory, this article attempts to reconceptualize learning space as…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, School Closing, COVID-19, Pandemics
Ryder, Courtney; Mackean, Tamara; Coombs, Julieann; Williams, Hayley; Hunter, Kate; Holland, Andrew J. A.; Ivers, Rebecca Q. – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2020
Indigenous research Knowledges and methodologies have existed over millennia, however it is only recently that Indigenous scholars have been able to challenge institutional Western hegemony to reclaim sovereignty in the research space. Despite the high volume of quantitative research describing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, there…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Research Methodology
Shin, YoungJu; Johnson, Nicole L. – Health Education, 2021
Purpose: To reduce the smoking rates and alleviate societal problems associated with smoking, health administrators and policy makers have attempted to promote and implement statewide smoking free policy. The present study examined how adults' awareness of and attitude toward the smoke-free air law, their perceived risks of secondhand smoke and…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Smoking, Public Health, Social Problems