Health promoting schools and other youth settings

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Health promoting schools and other youth settings

• Simon Murphy

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Key proposed activity in bid, 2007

• Review of evidence supporting health promoting
  schools (Lister Sharp 1999)
• Review of the relationship between school context
  and effective health promotion policies,
  structures, organisation, activities, systems
• The development and evaluation of innovative
  multi level school interventions - emotional
  health, school community links
• Health promotion and vulnerable children
  moving beyond the school setting to looked after
  children, children with learning and other
  disabilities, social justice system

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Current projects

• Interdependent ecological levels
• Intrapersonal addressing individual
  characteristics that influence behaviour such as
  attitudes, values, beliefs and skills
• Promoting resilience and self regulation in PSE
  curriculum an exploratory study
• Interpersonal covering social interaction and
  group influences such as norms, roles, social
  support and social networks
• ASSIST RCT and implementation studies
• Development and testing of a peer-led
  intervention to increase physical activity and
  healthy eating in adolescence
• Organisational rules, regulations, policies and
  ethos that may promote health
• Evaluation of the implementation of the WNHSS
• School dining halls as social and physical
  environments an exploratory study

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Current projects

• Communities focussing on the shared identities,
  experiences and resources for health of schools,
  families and local areas
• Evaluation of KATFF engaging children and parents
  in alcohol education a pilot study
• Reciprocal influence of schools / families on
  diet an exploratory study
• Environments and policies understanding the
  influence of laws, structures, neighbourhoods and
  national and local policies.
• Analysis of HBSC data of school policy influences
  e.g. multilevel modelling of school smoking
  policies, the school environment and adolescent
  smoking in Wales. School level nutritional
  policies and pupil healthy eating behaviour
• Evaluations of national policy pilots such as the
  Cooking Bus initiative in Wales and the Primary
  School Free Health Breakfasts Initiative. Follow
  on study free school breakfast data augmentation

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Programme vision

• To develop and test innovative sustainable
  interventions that address multiple risk and
  health inequalities
• To identify the active ingredients of effective
  ecological approaches to promoting health in
  schools for multilevel synergistic interventions
• To understand the relationship between the
  school, the family, community and wider society
  and the implications for health interventions
  that work across settings
• To engage policy, practice and the public in the
  development, testing and implementation of such
  interventions
• To develop a robust evidence base for school
  based health improvement and innovative research
  methodologies

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Key areas for potential

• Analysis of setting / contextual influences on
  behaviour using existing and developing data sets
  (e.g. HBSC)
• Qualitative studies of experiences and
  understandings of school setting e.g. physical
  environments
• Developing and evaluating innovative
  interventions applying theories across
  settings, populations, behaviours and cultures.
• Application of Assist to multiple risk and cross
  cultural implementation.
• Use of new technologies to deliver interventions.
  
• Emotional health interventions and multiple risk
  behaviours
• Interventions that address schools as physical
  and social environments
• Interventions that work across settings
  schools, families, communities
• Interventions in further and higher education and
  occupational settings
• Interventions for looked after children, children
  with learning and other disabilities, social
  justice system
• Key areas - diet and nutrition, alcohol and
  substance misuse, physical activity