Championing health promoting schools: a secondary school case study from Victoria, Australia Meiklejohn, Sarah, Peeters, Anna and Palermo, Claire 2020, Championing health promoting schools: a secondary school case study from Victoria, Australia, Health education journal, pp. 1-12, doi: 10.1177/0017896920961121. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Championing health promoting schools: a secondary school case study from Victoria, Australia Author(s) Meiklejohn, Sarah Peeters, Anna orcid.org/0000-0003-4340-9132 Palermo, Claire Journal name Health education journal Start page 1 End page 12 Total pages 12 Publisher SAGE Publications Place of publication London, Eng. Publication date 2020-09-26 ISSN 0017-8969 1748-8176 Keyword(s) Social Sciences Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Education & Educational Research Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Case study health promoting schools school health promotion secondary school whole-of-school approach Summary Objective: School-based prevention interventions informed by the World Health Organization Health Promoting School (HPS) framework aim to improve the health and wellbeing of school-aged children, yet few studies describe factors influencing the successful implementation of this framework in secondary schools. This study sought to explore why and how secondary schools might implement the HPS framework and factors contributing to success. Design: Qualitative case study. Setting: A single secondary school in Victoria, Australia, purposefully selected due to local recognition of an HPS policy. Method: Data collection included semi-structured interviews, document retrieval, drawings and ethnographic observation. Data were analysed using framework analysis. Results: The school had elected to implement the policy as it aligned with its existing health and wellbeing policy framework and provided a flexible yet evidence-based framework to guide a whole-of-school approach to promoting health and wellbeing. Success was perceived to be dependent on selecting easier health priority areas to address initially, the allocation of a designated team to guide policy implementation and access to a skilled health promotion worker to assist implementation. Conclusion: Study findings highlight potential reasons why and how secondary schools might implement the HPS framework and factors contributing to success. Further research is warranted to enhance the transferability of these findings and explore the impact of the HPS framework in secondary schools. Language eng DOI 10.1177/0017896920961121 Indigenous content off Field of Research 1117 Public Health and Health Services 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30144117 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health PVC's Office - Health Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 16 Oct 2020, 07:09:42 EST Sat, 17 Oct 2020, 04:00:55 EST Mon, 19 Oct 2020, 07:01:17 EST Sat, 31 Oct 2020, 01:34:58 EST Tue, 12 Jan 2021, 05:11:37 EST Tue, 23 Feb 2021, 14:52:17 EST Tue, 23 Feb 2021, 14:53:29 EST Tue, 23 Feb 2021, 14:55:35 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 9 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 16 Oct 2020, 07:09:42 EST

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