Year: 2000
Type: article
Abstract: The WHO -Health Behaviour in School aged children study is a collaborative crossnational study supported by the World Health Organisation (European Office).It was initiated in 1982 by researchers from Finland, England and Norway and since then data have been collected in an increasing number of countries in four yearly cycles.In 1998, the study comprised 27 European countries including Ireland as well as the USA and Canada.Data were collected from more than 120, 000 school children aged between 11 and 15 years.The objectives are fourfold:To increase understanding of and monitor over time young peoples health and related behaviours To influence policy development and the design of effective interventions for young people To learn more about the social and familial contexts of these behaviours To promote multi-disciplinary and cross national research on young peoples health issuesThe HBSC is rooted in the social and behavioural sciences rather than in classical medical epidemiology.It is not restricted to anyone theoretical framework or model, rather it is designed to facilitate multiple approaches to the investigation of health.Nevertheless, a common conceptual framework for the development of the HBSC, the socialisation perspective, has been adopted.This enables some of the social and psychological determinants of health and health behaviours such as the family, school and peer settings and personal capacity and coping skills, to be systematically
Author: Saoirse Nic Gabhainn
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1850183167