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Health‐related research and evaluation in schools

Alysoun M. Moon (Research Fellow at the Wessex Institute for Health Research and Development)
Mark A. Mullee (Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Medical Statistics and Computing)
Rachel L. Thompson (Research Fellow at the Institute of Human Nutrition)
Viv Speller (Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion at the Wessex Institute for Health Research and Development)
Paul Roderick (Senior Lecturer in Public Health Medicine at the Health Care Research Unit)

Health Education

ISSN: 0965-4283

Article publication date: 1 February 1999

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Abstract

Health‐related research and evaluation in school settings have grown in recent years as the needs to demonstrate accountability and effectiveness in health education and promotion have increased. The evaluation of the Wessex Healthy Schools Award (WHSA) scheme and its effectiveness in secondary schools took place between 1995 and 1998. Outlines what was planned and describes what actually happened and how the research team responded to unforeseen changes in the study design and implementation. Lists several recommendations for health or education personnel contemplating, or about to start, school‐based health education and promotion, arising from the WHSA evaluation experience.

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Moon, A.M., Mullee, M.A., Thompson, R.L., Speller, V. and Roderick, P. (1999), "Health‐related research and evaluation in schools", Health Education, Vol. 99 No. 1, pp. 27-34. https://doi.org/10.1108/09654289910248481

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MCB UP Ltd

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