... children’s well-being and creating a positive school climate in primary schools in the Netherlands. PEP adopts a competence skill enhancement approach with a focus on developing children’s positive emotions and strengths. Design/methodology/approach A process and impact evaluation was performed within...

... and activities in secondary schools. Design/methodology/approach In total, 80 school board members, and 18 prevention coordinators of 18 schools in the Southern Limburg region in The Netherlands completed a written questionnaire on the implementation of the six steps of the Schoolbeat approach...

.... Design/methodology/approach Focus group discussions are conducted with 37 adolescents, from three schools in The Netherlands. A semi‐structured questioning‐scheme is used. Recorded data are transcribed, analysed using Atlas.ti and arranged in the EnRG‐framework. Findings Adolescents find health...

... 2010 Personal health Cigarettes Addiction The Netherlands The smoking of tobacco continues to be a major preventable cause of illness and premature death. The Surgeon General concluded that smoking “harms nearly every organ of the body, causing many diseases and reducing the health...

... can be contacted at: s.kremers@gvo.unimaas.nl © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Fitness The Netherlands Children (age groups) Exercise Behaviour Being physically active promotes both physical and mental health. Accumulating evidence suggests that physical activity...

..., respectively psychosocial information giving and counselling (Bensing et al., 2003). J.M. Bensing can be contacted at: j.bensing@nivel.nl © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Research Patients Doctors Communication The Netherlands Feelings are at the core...

... to this transition among Dutch general practices after a trialability opportunity. Cigarettes General practice Health education The Netherlands Advice from general practitioners (GPs) has a significant positive effect on smoking cessation rates, even if this advice is brief (Lancaster et al...

... situation and therefore relevant advice can be given. Froukje Dijk can be contacted at: f.dijk@gvo.unimaas.nl © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Adolescents Cigarettes Health education The Netherlands Smoking is a major and yet preventable cause of disease and early death (US...

.... In The Netherlands, as in most developed societies, a large part of morbidity and mortality can be attributed to cardiovascular diseases (CVD) (Marmot, 1992; Konings‐Dalstra and Reitsma, 1999). CVD is multicausal, and behavioral factors, such as smoking, lack of physical activity and dietary habits, are important...

...Theo Sandfort; ed The Dutch Response to HIV: Pragmatism and Consensus . London : UCL Press , ISBN: 1857288165 AIDS Health The Netherlands This book belongs to the ‘‘Social aspects of AIDS’’ series, which is edited by Peter Aggleton. In the Series Editor’s Preface...

...Allison Kesterton Describes the author’s visit to The Netherlands while in receipt of a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to study drug education. Reports on a visit of a group of 12‐year‐old schoolchildren to a remand prison in Amsterdam, where they met a heroin addict. This scheme is run...