...Jacqueline Nkrumah; Aaron Asibi Abuosi; Lily Yarney; Anita Asiowome Adzo Baku Purpose The study aims to evaluate the readability, comprehensibility, and vocabulary knowledge of SRH educational materials available online and on paper to inform health educational material development for young...

..., the knowledge and awareness of this disease remains poor among the population. The present study aimed to determine the extent of knowledge and awareness of BC, its risk factors, early signs and symptoms and breast self-examination (BSE) practice as an early detection method among Indian college-going female...

... 10 2021 21 12 2021 17 01 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Health Children School health promotion Health education Knowledge Health has been considered from a multidimensional perspective from as early...

...Melissa Burton; Lynn Riddell; Anthony Worsley Purpose Food education in secondary schools can provide adolescents with essential food knowledge and skills required for healthy, independent living. The purpose of this paper is to identify food-related knowledge and skills that Australian consumers...

... health literacy. The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of the timing and source of sexual knowledge on current safe sex knowledge and risky sexual behaviours among middle-aged and older adults in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – Participants (n=410, mean age...

...Dongxu Wang; Donald Stewart; Chun Chang; Ying Ji; Yuhui Shi Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to improve adolescents’ nutrition knowledge and to examine the effect of interventions component to improve adolescents’ nutrition knowledge. Design/methodology/approach – The study design...

... in improving actors’ HS-related knowledge and practices. The present paper focuses on the organizational impact of such PD intervention. Design/methodology/approach – The design was based on a realist evaluation approach, which helps to elicit a theory explaining how an intervention leads to particular...

... based on 23 group interviews with a total of 114 adolescents and 12 individual interviews with their teachers. The data were iteratively analyzed and categorized using guidelines for content analysis. The study used a theoretical construct focusing on participation, knowledge and health identity...

...Dan Grabowski Purpose The main aim of the paper is to explore whether health theatre as a school‐based health promotion initiative communicates relevant health knowledge to children and the interrelated processes of identity development, knowledge acquisition and participation. Development...

... young adults. There was a fear that the HPV vaccine would reinforce gender bias, reinforcing the idea that females are responsible for sexual health. They maintained that mass media campaigns were more effective than sex education for improving sexual health knowledge and practices. Originality/value...

...Lisa R. Norman; Robert Carr The objective of the present study was to examine the effect of HIV knowledge on HIV‐related behaviours by developing an exploratory model based on social‐psychological theories of behaviour change. Data were analyzed from 1,351 male and female adults, both married...

...Jeanne Katz; Alyson Peberdy; Jenny Douglas Promoting Health: Knowledge and Practice (2nd ed.) . London : Palgrave/Open University Health Promotion Knowledge Health Promotion: Professional Perspectives (2nd ed.) Edited by Angela Scriven and Judy Orme...

... the action”. The key factors which influence action are discussed: they are insight and knowledge; vision; commitment; experience; and social skills. The paper then looks more deeply at insight and knowledge, suggesting that it has four different dimensions: knowledge of effects; causes; the processes...