Support for health promoting schools
A typology of supporting strategies in Austrian provinces
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22944646 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Gugglberger (0000-0001-7190-6086, Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 447-456 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Promotion International (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-4824 • E-ISSN: 1460-2245 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/heapro/dar009 |
| PMID | 21303788 |
| OpenAlex | W2126676332 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 23 |
Schools that want to implement health promotion (HP) are often confronted with obstacles that they cannot overcome by themselves and therefore need support from their environment. However, the issue of which kind of support is needed for HP implementation is complex. A systems approach suggests that the individual logic of each school be considered and that supporting strategies be flexible to specific needs. This article pursues the question which types of support for health promoting schools are offered on a provincial level in Austria. Using a grounded theory approach, 18 in-depth interviews with representatives of provincial organizations and 26 documents relevant for school HP were analysed. As a result, five different strategies of supporting health promoting schools have been identified in Austria: (i) organize exchange among schools, (ii) establish certification and quality control of school health efforts, (iii) offer consultation and information, (iv) carry out a specific HP programme and (v) coordinate HP actors and information. These strategies are usually combined and rarely occur in their pure form. It was also determined that the coordination of the different strategies and human resources for HP are missing for schools in Austria. It is argued that each of these supporting strategies has benefits and limitations for schools and the providers, and that they all have the potential to respond to the school as a complex social system.
Certification · Control (management) · Health care · Health promotion · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess) · Public relations · Quality (philosophy) · Sociology · Typology · Community Health and Development · Computer Science · Health, psychology, and well-being · School Health and Nursing Education
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Bricolage and the Health Promoting School
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The status of health-promoting schools in Hong Kong and implications for further development
Development of a collaborative model to improve school health promotion in the Netherlands
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Theorising Interventions as Events in Systems
Why Don’t We See More Translation of Health Promotion Research to Practice? Rethinking the Efficacy-to-Effectiveness Transition
Complexity and post-modernism
Schools as social complex adaptive systems
| Citations per year | 0.42 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2020 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |