... a participatory approach can deepen the understanding of how schoolchildren relate to and use gamification as a tool to promote physical activity and learning. Design/methodology/approach Inspired by the concept and process of empowerment and child participation, the methodological focus of this study...

...., 2005 ; Greenhalgh et al., 2004). 11 11 2016 26 01 2017 27 03 2017 03 05 2017 18 05 2017 24 05 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Empowerment Education Multi-disciplinary Dynamic...

... on integrated curricula models related to the on-going discussion on redesign of western school curricula. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Action research Adolescents Education Nutrition Empowerment Action and action competence Unbalanced and unhealthy dietary patterns...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Health promotion Motivation Empowerment Sports Adolescents Education Self-determination Qualitative methods Physical activity Achievement Goals Globally, the increase in overweight and obesity in populations across the world has been...

... may, in the future, lead to improved self-management patient education among people with chronic illness. Accordingly, many patient education programmes focus on establishing self-management skills and empowering people with chronic conditions. Programmes teaching self-management and empowerment...

.... (2001), “ From nurse-centered health counseling to empowermental health counseling ”, Patient Education and Counseling , Vol. 45 No. 1 , pp. 69 - 79 . Pulvirenti, M. , McMillan, J. and Lawn, S. (2012), “ Empowerment...

... practice. Students are competent to lead health promoting activities with the support of their teacher and participating in health promoting activities lead by their peers. Originality/value The empowerment‐based group assignment in this study offers an example of implementing health promoting...

... Sexual health HIV Prevention Young people Uganda Africa Empowerment Rural regions Youth Two key messages drive the widely endorsed joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) 2011‐2015 strategy, getting to zero (UNAIDS, 2010). The first is the need to intensify HIV prevention...

... young people's accounts points to the possibility of a more positive discourse on health – opening up new opportunities and insights for health promotion informed by concepts of empowerment. The present study's concern for empowerment, young people and health sought to elicit young people's own...

...Helene V. Hjalmarson; Margaretha Strandmark K. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore interprofessional experiences of incorporating fracture prevention activities in clinical practice inspired by an empowerment approach. Design/methodology/approach Data collection consisted primarily...

...Nicole Mohajer; Jaya Earnest Purpose This paper aims to review global adolescent empowerment programmes and develops and proposes a model that can be used with vulnerable adolescents. The model reflects theory and experience drawn from the literature. Design/methodology/approach The review...

...Roslyn Kane; Ellen Sieg Purpose This paper aims to discuss how sex and relationship education (SRE) could benefit from considering current levels of young women's empowerment in (hetero)sexual relationships and challenge popular notions of twenty‐first century young women “having it all...

...Viv Speller Social capital Empowerment Communities Laverack's book aims to elucidate the role of power and politics in health promotion and places empowerment at its heart as a process to address the social determinants of disease. While this provides an interesting perspective...

...Angela Scriven; Liz Stiddard Although schools are highly appropriate arenas for promoting health, in England they have hierarchical cultures, limited autonomy and a dominant academic function that can inhibit the adoption of empowerment approaches. Centred on an English perspective, this article...

...Daniel Wight The goal of empowerment is widely aspired to in health promotion. In practice, however, there are several limitations to this approach when applied to school‐based sex education. It is frequently difficult for pupils to express their perceived needs, there are strong arguments...

.... © MCB UP Limited 1999 Drug abuse Education Schools Training Partnering Empowerment Within the context of school health education, the whole area of drug education has been controversial, with widely differing opinions as to the most effective approach (McWhirter, Wetton...

... is not always available in school settings, with their constraints relating to their timetable and the curriculum. It should be noted that the social influences and life skills programmes do include some aspects of empowerment. However, while they appear to empower adolescents with skill building...

... Community relations Education Empowerment Police Schools ...