Implementing health promotion in schools: protocol for a realist systematic review of research and experience in the United Kingdom (UK).

ABSTRACT:

Background

School-based interventions and campaigns are used to promote health and address a wide variety of public health problems. Schools are considered to be key sites for the implementation of health promotion programmes for their potential to reach the whole population in particular age-groups and instil healthy patterns of behavior early in life. However, evidence for the effectiveness of school-based health promotion interventions is highly variable. Systematic reviews of the evidence of school-based interventions tend to be highly problem- or intervention- specific, thereby missing potential generic insights into implementation and effectiveness of such programmes across problems.

Methods/design

A realist systematic review will be undertaken to explain how, why and

SUBMITTER: Pearson M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3488465 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature