Implementation of school health promotion: consequences for professional assistance

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Efficacy of a Web-Based Computer-Tailored Smoking Prevention Intervention for Dutch Adolescents: Randomized Controlled Trial

“…Most often, however, reasons for non-participation mentioned were lack of time and lack of interest, which is often the case in many schools in the Netherlands, since health promotion is not integrated into the Dutch school curriculum [10,58,59]. This clearly implies a need for health promoting policies to outline the need for adoption of evidence-based smoking prevention programs.…”

“…Second, of the 1380 schools approached, only 89 agreed to participate, which may reveal an overall negative climate toward smoking prevention in the Netherlands and/or to participating in experimental studies. Most often, however, reasons for non-participation mentioned were lack of time and lack of interest, which is often the case in many schools in the Netherlands, since health promotion is not integrated into the Dutch school curriculum [ 10 , 58 , 59 ]. This clearly implies a need for health promoting policies to outline the need for adoption of evidence-based smoking prevention programs.…”

Predictors and mediators of sustainable collaboration and implementation in comprehensive school health promotion

“…However, this mediation has not yet been quantitatively assessed. In addition, previous studies provide some indications for a direct impact of the DISC factors on the implementation of the HSA in schools (Boot et al, 2010;Boot and De Vries, 2012).…”

“…However, this mediation has not yet been quantitatively assessed. In addition, previous studies provide some indications for a direct impact of the DISC factors on the implementation of the HSA in schools (Boot et al, 2010;Boot and De Vries, 2012 two-year trajectory. The five HSA collaborations were diagnosed by means of a survey among the relevant stakeholders from health services, PHSs and municipal authorities (Pucher et al, 2015b).…”

Successful health-promoting leadership – A question of synchronisation

“…Hence, health-promotion research to some extent identifies the same kind of success factors identified by leadership research (the importance of teachers' work) but overlooks the importance of leadership practices and multiprofessional coordination. No single profession can carry the change, so it is not enough just to point to the importance of management and the ability to handle complex organisational challenges (Boot and de Vries, 2010); there needs to be research on what works and why.…”