Maximising parent involvement in the pedestrian safety of 4 to 6 year old children: Final report

In Australia pedestrian injury is the leading specific cause of death among 5-9 year old children, and pedestrian injuries among 0-14 year old children in 1999-20000 were the second highest cause of hospitalisation. This mortality and morbidity can be attributed largely to unsafe road environments and under 10 year old children\u27s significant deficits in cognitive and perceptual abilities when crossing roads. For all children under 10 years learning to cross the road needs to be taught by parents in the same way that children learn to swim i.e. under close adult supervision and in the \u27real\u27 environment where the skills can be adequately practised, through discovery and problem solving, at their own pace and with positive feedback from a caring adult..

Evaluation Report of the Pilot Phase of Project Renew

Quang Tri is one of the provinces in Vietnam that suffered from severe devastation during the Vietnam war. The province bore great losses in terms of human and material resources due to landmines and unexploded ordnances. The \u27Restoring the use of lands to Vietnamese through Education and Neutralisation of the effects of the war\u27 (RENEW) project was a product of the partnership between the Quang Tri department of Foreign Affairs and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. It was implemented from August 2001 to December 2003 in one pilot district in the province. This evaluation was conducted after two years of co-operation between the international organisation and the local government

Trans-adaption of successful cigarette smoking intervention to randomised school-based cannabis intervention trial

Despite the emergence of cannabis use as a public health issue of significance in the 21st Century, no school-based interventions specifically addressing cannabis use have been reported in the literature. The prevalence of adolescent cannabis use has risen during the 1990s while the age of onset has decreased. This three-year trial seeks to trans-adapt a successful school-based cigarette smoking program underpinned by harm minimisation (HM) theory (including abstinence messages), into a school-based cannabis intervention trial. This innovative intervention will be compared to the largely abstinence-based drug use prevention activities currently used in W A. The first and second years of the project have been successful in establishing and conducting this school-based cluster randomised control trial. In summary, under the direction of an experienced management team, the project has recruited 24 Perth metropolitan high schools - the required number to provide sufficient power to detect hypothesised differences between intervention and comparison students. Within these schools, active parental consent to participate in data collection for the project was obtained from over 3,300 students after the initial letter and two reminders to parents (69% consent rate). Baseline data were collected from nearly 3,100 students (93% of those eligible), 2953 students at post-test 1 and 2701 students at the end of the second year of intervention (Post-test 2). In addition, data were collected at each of these time points from English and Health Education teachers, and school principals

Child-centred environments to limit early aggression (Childhood Aggression Prevention (CAP) Project) progress report: presented to the Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation

A growing body of evidence indicates that early intervention may be most effective in preventing the high health and social costs of violence, victimisation, and other outcomes of aggression. The Childhood Aggression Prevention (CAP) Project is a trial of a new classroom-based intervention designed to prevent problems associated with aggression and other problem behaviours in early-primary years students. The intervention was developed through a review of established and previously-evaluated programs with similar aims and through a formative study conducted previously by the Child Health Promotion Research Centre. The CAP Project aims to reduce overt physical and verbal aggression, but also to reduce social (or relational) aggression, to promote prosocial behaviours and empathy. The intervention targets five primary areas: (1) explicit learning opportunities to support emotion regulation and social competence amongst children; (2) preventive strategies to promote pro-social goals amongst children and to limit peer exclusion and rejection, which can lead to increases in aggressive behaviour; (3) strategies to enable school staff to self diagnose and address relational problems with difficult students, which can entrench behaviour problems; (4) strategies for how schools can support parents of children with problem behaviours; and (5) effective proactive and reactive responses to incidents of anger and/or aggression

Reducing the effects of bullying among Aboriginal children living in rural Western Australia: annual report

It is unknown how Aboriginal children and adults conceptualize childhood bullying and what school/community intervention programs are appropriate. The Solid Kids, Solid Schools project will use a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods to develop culturally informed and determined understandings of bullying among Aboriginal children. These understandings can then be used to formatively develop a sustainable school and community-based bullying prevention and reduction program with strategies identified by Aboriginal people for use in schools in the Yamaji region or Midwest, Murchison Education District of Western Australia. According to the funding proposal a Steering Committee was established to provide project guidance and feedback for the duration of the Project. In depth community consultation highlighted the need for modifications to the Project study design. The recommended methodological changes allow the Project to collect seeping data that will contextualise bullying experiences among Aboriginal children attending primary schools and high schools throughout the Mid West Murchison District, or Yamaji region. Collection of seeping data will be conducted in six schools and three community groups and commenced in November 2006

Health promotion evaluation: recommendations to policy-makers

"In June 1995, the WHO Regional Office for Europe established a Working Group on Health Promotion Evaluation in cooperation with three government agencies: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States, Health Canada, Health Education Authority, United Kingdom. The Working Group had three objectives: to provide guidance to policy-makers and practitioners to foster the use of appropriate methods for health promotion evaluation, to examine the current range of evaluation methods, both quantitative and qualitative, and to provide guidance to policy-makers and practitioners to increase the quality of health promotion evaluations." - p. 3report of the WHO European Working Group on Health Promotion Evaluation.Publisher's no. EUR/ICP/IVST 05 01 03

Report of the National Expert Panel on Community Health Promotion

In response to the 1979 Surgeon General's Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Healthy People, the Center for Health Promotion and Education was created at CDC in 1981. This center was established as a broad-based entity that focused on health issues including reproductive health, nutrition, smoking, alcohol use, physical fitness, stress, violence, accidents, and other risk factors of public health significance. In subsequent years, the center's scope expanded to include important infant and maternal health initiatives, the widely used Planned Approach to Community Health, and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and other key surveillance programs. By 1988, CDC established the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), which became increasingly disease-specific, spreading the expertise in health education and community health promotion across diversified programs. Consequently, no one unit within NCCDPHP is the primary resource for public health practitioners seeking to improve the efficacy and effectiveness of community health promotion. NCCDPHP is focused on strengthening services to improve community health promotion by facilitating translation of research into practice and expanding collaborative efforts. The Division of Adult and Community Health (DACH) provides a home for cross-cutting expertise and consultation about community-based public health work at NCCDPHP. DACH is also working to expand the ability of the Community Health and Program Services Branch (CHAPS) to build healthy communities and eliminate health disparities by providing national leadership in community health promotion and disease prevention. The long-term goal for NCCDPHP and DACH is to serve as a center for cross-cutting expertise and support for community health promotion. Furthermore, in the future, CHAPS is intended to be a point of public access to evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence ready for translation in community settings.prepared by Amanda Navarro, Karen Voetsch, Leandris Liburd, Clem Bezold, Marsha Rhea.4/8/2008 - date from document propertiesThe Community Health and Program Services Branch, along with the Division of Adult and Community Health's Office of the Director, hosted a meeting of the National Expert Panel on Community Health Promotion on March 23-24, 2006, in Atlanta, Georgia. The purpose was to convene a group of experts external to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop recommendations for efforts of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) to promote community health. Twenty-five experts from academia, state and local health departments, national nonprofit organizations, and community-based groups participated in the meeting. In addition, each division in NCCDPHP was represented in a CDC ad hoc committee that observed the meeting and provided continual feedback and support. An evaluation of CDC's roles and the subsequent recommendations are presented here.Mode of access: World Wide Web as an Acrobat .pdf file (477.67 KB, 22 p.).Text document (PDF)

Adolescent health chartbook

"July 2000."Overall responsibility for planning and coordinating the content of this volume rested with the Office of Analysis, Epidemiology, and Health Promotion, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), under the general direction of Diane M. Makuc and Jennifer H. Madans.Also available via the World Wide Web.National Center for Health Statistics. Health, United States, 2000 With Adolescent Health Chartbook. Hyattsville, Maryland: 2000

Injury chartbook

National Center for Health Statistics."July 1997."Overall responsibility for planning and coordinating the content of this volume rested with the Office of Analysis, Epidemiology, and Health Promotion, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), under the supervision of Kate Prager, Diane M. Makuc, and Jacob J. Feldman.Also available via the World Wide Web