... 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...

... health Cigarettes Addiction The Netherlands © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Smokers were recruited during a three‐month period in 2000 via 65 Dutch pharmacies (PH) and during eight months in 2002 via 75 GPs. In 50 PH, staff engaged in active recruitment (asking clients whether...

... 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...

... Communication The Netherlands Feelings are at the core of the interaction between physicians and patients (Hall, 1995) and can even influence health outcomes (van Dulmen and Bensing, 2002). For many people, a medical visit is accompanied by various emotions. It is clear that very few patients seek...

...). Ciska Hoving can be contacted at: c.hoving@gvo.unimaas.nl © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 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...

... stable during the last decades, although recently a reduction in regular smokers of 17 years and older was shown (STIVORO, 2004). In the Netherlands, 40 percent of adolescents between 15 and 17 years of age have smoked at least one cigarette during the past four weeks and 27 percent are daily smokers...

... at the individual level are presented, followed by a description of the methods for the measures at the organizational level. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Community‐based prevention Cardiovascular diseases Evaluation design Baseline data The Netherlands The community project attempts...

...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...