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Current practice in meeting child health needs in family support services: variation by service type and perspectives on future developments.
(Taylor & Francis, 2009-07)
The needs of all service users include those related to physical, emotional, sexual and mental health. This article documents where child health needs are recognised and being met within family support services in the west ...
Addressing the determinants of positive mental health: concepts, evidence and practice
(Clifford Beers Foundation, 2009-08)
Positive mental health is recognised as a key resource for population well-being and the social and economic prosperity of society. This paper provides an overview of current concepts of positive mental health and its ...
The Galway Consensus Conference: International collaboration on the development of core competencies for health promotion and health education.
(SAGE Journals Online, 2009-05)
Developing a competent health promotion workforce is a key component of capacity building for the future and is critical to delivering on the vision, values and commitments of global health promotion. This paper reports ...
Domains of core competency, standards, and quality assurance for building global capacity in health promotion.
(Society for Public Health Education, 2009-06)
This paper reports the outcome of the Galway Consensus Conference, an effort undertaken as a first step toward international collaboration on credentialing in health promotion and health education. Twenty-nine leading ...
Overweight in school-aged children and its relationship with demographic and lifestyle factors: results from the WHO-Collaborative Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study.
(Birkhäuser Verlag, 2009-07-01)
Objectives - To examine overweight prevalence and its association with demographic and lifestyle factors in 11-15 year olds in the HBSC 2005-2006 survey.
Methods - Self-reports of height, weight, eating patterns, physical ...
What makes teachers tick? Sustaining events in new teachers lives.
(Taylor & Francis, 2009-05-07)
To investigate what keeps teachers motivated on a day¿to¿day basis, we traced the importance of routinely encountered affective episodes. Significant research on emotions already highlights the relative importance of ...
Where do young Irish women want Chlamydia-screening services to be set up? A qualitative study employing Goffman's impression management framework
(Elsevier, 2009-08-20)
We conducted interviews with 35 young women recruited from eight community healthcare rural and urban settings across two regions of Ireland. The aim of the study was to explore where these women thought Chlamydia-screening ...
Temporal and spatial distribution of human cryptosporidiosis in the west of Ireland 2004-2007
(2009)
Background
Cryptosporidiosis is increasingly recognised as a cause of gastrointestinal infection in Ireland and has been implicated in several outbreaks. This study aimed to investigate the spatial and temporal distribution ...
Adolescent place attachment, social capital, and perceived safety: a comparison of 13 countries.
(Springer, 2009-06-17)
In adolescence, children become increasingly independent and autonomous, and spend more time in neighborhood settings away from home. During mid-to-late adolescence, youth often become more critical about the place they ...
The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children WHO Collaborative Cross-National (HBSC) Study: Origins, concept, history and development 1982-2008.
(Springer, 2009-06-04)
This paper traces the history of the HBSC study from its origins in the early 1980's to the present day describing how it was first conceptualised scientifically and how this influenced issues of study design. The challenges ...