Jackie Green

An evaluation of school sex education team training

The provision of appropriate sex education for teachers has been identified as a key factor in improving the quality of sex and relationship education (SRE). This paper focuses on evaluating a sexual health training programme designed to prepare school teams to deliver high quality SRE. The evaluation followed up three schools prospectively and 11 schools retrospectively. Multiple methods were used to gather and triangulate qualitative and quantitative data from teachers, senior management, pupils and trainers. The training programme was found to have made positive contributions to SRE programme and policy development through building schools’ capacity to be responsive to young people’s needs, team building, personal and professional development, and greater collaboration in school between health and education services, parents and pupils. In the light of the findings, recommendations are made to guide future training.

Health education–the case for rehabilitation

The emergence of health promotion in the 1980s was a direct response to critiques of health education which centred on its victim-blaming orientation and a growing appreciation of the need to address the wider determinants of health and health-related behaviour. This paper argues a priori that such critiques centre on a preventive model of health education and overlook its broader potential. It reviews a number of alternative models of health education and locates these within the core values of equity and empowerment which underpin the Ottawa Charter and subsequent WHO documents. It suggests that, despite the rhetoric of health promotion, practice frequently remained focused on individual behaviour change and the use of persuasive health education. The move to health promotion effectively stifled further debate about the broader role of health education in achieving individual empowerment and social change. This paper calls for a broader conceptualisation of health education–the New Health Education–and concludes that this should be the driving force behind health promotion.

School governors and sex education: an analysis of policies in Leeds

Responsibility for sex education has been allocated to school governors in England and Wales under the 1986 Education (No. 2) Act. Little is known about the way governors are exercising their responsibility, and the influence they are exerting within individual schools. An empirical analysis of sex education policies from a sample of schools in Leeds was undertaken in 1992 to assess the effect that governors are having on this area of the curriculum. It revealed: failure of some governing bodies to fulfil their responsibilities; wide variation in content of policies; uncertainty about the format of a policy and areas that should be included; and policies reflecting rather than guiding practice. The analysis highlights the need for governor training in Leeds, and for clearer guidance for governors on both the substantive nature of sex education and the requirements of a policy on sex education.

The Health Promoting School, general practice and the creative arts: an example of inter‐sectoral collaboration

The Health Promoting School concept and recent developments in the Health Service in the UK place both schools and primary care under some pressure to form collaborative links. However, such collaboration is currently rare. Presents a case study of an example of effective collaboration and identifies the benefits and difficulties from the perspective of both the school and the general practice. An analysis is provided of the factors contributing to successful collaboration, and the role of creative arts as a vehicle for joint working is discussed.

School sex education policies: A quanitative analysis of the process of policy development

AbstractIn England and Wales responsibility for each schools policy on sex education rests with the governing body. School governors could potentially exert a major influence on the sex education experience of young people. The purpose of this study is to further understanding of how these quasi-autonomous groups are functioning in this respect by exploring the process of policy development in individual schools and also the perceptions of the staff about the way the policy has influenced practice. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in 14 schools randomly selected from one Local Education Authority. The main issues to emerge were: teaching staff playing the lead role in policy development and policy writing; little or no planned consultation with parents or community groups; policy recording existing practice; no monitoring of implementation; general lack of confidence of governors about their role in this area. In general, governing bodies were not fully utilising the opportunity to work collecti...

Research and Practice for Equity in Health: Actions of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education

The published health promotion knowledge base is biased in favor of information produced in just a few English-speaking countries. This is an impediment to health promotion’s global development, which would be fostered by better access to information from the broadest possible range of sources. Responding, the International Union for Health Promotion and Education has expanded the scope of its flagship journal, Promotion and Education, publishing material in French and Spanish, in addition to English, and intending to broaden its scope even more. The International Union for Health Promotion and Education has also established an equity project in the health promotion publishing arena, together with other health promotion journals, to assist would-be authors for whom language is a barrier. A third International Union for Health Promotion and Education initiative is the Global Essential Readings in Health Promotion book project, whose editorial team includes experts from every continent, to ensure that the book includes material from every quarter of the globe.

Targeting, tailoring and stages of change

This is the first of an occasional series of articles that will feature in full exclusively in Promotion & Education as part of the formal link between IUHPE and Health Education Research. Each article will review key issues raised by papers published recently in Health Education Research on a topic or theme of current relevance to health promotion. A brief summary will also appear in Euronews, the IUHPE Regional Newsletter for Europe.

Not another smoking survey! Healthy public policy and the need for local information

Abstract The development and implementation of healthy public policy has been a central concern of health promotion. The following paper details a study examining local opinion concerning the implementation of national guidelines into local policy regarding banning smoking in enclosed public places following the publication of the UK governments Public Health white paper. The aim of the study was to determine public opinion regarding the acceptability of banning smoking in public areas and the views of major stakeholders in the region. A public opinion survey was conducted with 859 people and semi-structured telephone interviews were held with 32 stakeholders. The study found that there was consistent support, amongst both the general public and the stakeholders, for banning smoking in public places. It also determined that stakeholders found the proposals of the Public Health white paper unclear and therefore difficult to implement. The paper concludes that a variety of support is needed for local policy implementation and makes suggestions for doing so, locating ideas within the literature.

El poder de elegir

Mientras vamos en el asunto de enseñar a nuestros hijos el comportamiento apropiado, hay tiempos en que las emociones nos hacen perder el control. Cuando sucede esto, es sabio separarse de su hijo de modo que tanto él como usted se calmen. La Separación Temporal se puede usar como una herramienta eficaz, positiva. Hay tres maneras distintas para usar el Separación Temporal, cada una con un propósito distinto.

International comparison- issues of measurement

5 IUHPE – PROMOTION & EDUCATION VOL. XI, NO. 3 2004 When writing about health promotion and young people in any country around the world, it can be either too easy or too complicated. Too easy because usually young people wherever they live, have a special openness and flexibility and promptness to answer to new – including a healthier behavior – which other age group populations don’t. It is too complicated because we often consider – from our expert positions – we know the best for our children and younger ones. Which often is not true. This paper is analyzing the NGO activities in the area of HIV/AIDS prevention in Romania that involves a wealth of experiences, successes and lessons learned. It looks afterwards at the current partnerships in this area, coordinated by the Romanian Ministry of Health that put a lot of efforts into insuring treatment for everybody in need. The article analyses two National AIDS campaigns comparing their objectives, activities, partners and impact. Youth in Romania represents a major target group for behavior change on HIV/AIDS prevention, but also on healthier behaviors in general. Facing the major challenges of drug consumption and abuse and STIs, the only efficient way so far for prevention is represented by health education and behavior change. Romanian youth is the most receptive group of population as elsewhere in the world to messages motivating to do new things. But Romanian youth faces also changes of the values in society and are bombarded with different, sometimes contradictory messages more than in other place far away. Health messages therefore need to stand up, be credible and offer easy to adopt solutions with immediate results for them. The content of the message is the same no matter of the city of village throughout the world. How to “wrap” it up vary a lot, according to realities in each place. I. Dinca and A. Rafil Romanian YouthWhat’s the difference with other young people around the world? This article describes the validation of the Arabic version of the Intuitive Eating Scale (IES). To ensure correct translation of the items used in the Likert-type IES, it was translated by native speakers and then back translated. A focus group with six undergraduate students attending the University of Jordan was later done to ensure face validity of the scale in its intended format. Based on responses from 367 college students at the University of Jordan, the IES was evaluated for internal consistency using cross-tabulations, factor analysis, and regression techniques. The four subscales isolated in the original validation of IES in the United States were also isolated in this sample. These subscales include intrinsic eating, extrinsic eating, anti-dieting, and self-care with alpha coefficients ranging from .34 to .86. Concurrent validity was established through testing predicted relationships between IES scores and certain demographic and lifestyle variables. Convergent validity was established through IES subscales correlating with the Cognitive Behavioral Dieting Scale in predicted direction. Results indicate that the IES may be used to identify the level of intuitive eating among other college populations in Arab countries. Implications and future research are discussed. H. N. Madanat and S. R. Hawks Validation of the Arabic version of the intuitive eating scale P&E-2004-3 resu 16/12/04 16:31 Page 5