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Key References in School Health Promotion: A Wiki-Bibliography for School Health Knowledge Network members
(This wiki-based web site has been prepared with initial funding from the Health & Learning Knowledge Centre in Canada. It will be available publicly until January 2009, at which time it will be available only to paying and contributing members of the International School Health Network as well as partnering organizations. Access to this wiki can be obtained by joining those partner organizations or by preparing a list of references for this wiki or by uploading a literature review. For more information contact dmccall@internationalschoolhealth.org


Introduction

This list of key references in school health promotion has been prepared to assist practitioners, policy-makers and researchers who are concerned with school-based and school-linked promotion of health, learning and social development. The contents of this draft document were developed from several research reviews and a detailed examination of the Cochrane and Campbell Collaboration web sites. We have included systematic research reviews, major reports prepared for national or international agencies and landmark studies that have influenced the development of health-promoting schools, coordinated school health programs and comprehensive approaches.

This wiki-based web site is quite lengthy, so you will need to navigation links in the left hand margin to find the specific topics that might be of more immediate interest to you.

The wiki covers 43 topic areas, including:
  • how schools can address 22 health topics,
  • the elements of a comprehensive approach to promoting healthy school communities,
  • background information on diffusion and systems change and other sections of issues such as research methods and evaluation.
We have tried to provide a web link to all documents. In many cases, these links lead to the abstract of an article published in a journal. Normal access rules to those journals will have to be followed as this wiki does not permit copying without explicit permission.

We hope that this document will be constantly updated by a wide variety of researchers, practitioners and policy-makers in school health so as to create a shared tool for all of us.

This free service provided through www.wetpaint.com has enabled us to do this so that you can add more citations and references from your work to benefit us all. This “wiki-document” has been developed by the School Health Research Network in Canada and the International School Health Network at the global level.

How to add references to this wiki-bibliography
We invite visitors to this online document to add other references to the list, so that we can all benefit from this online collaboration. If you want to add references to this wiki-bibliography, you will need to be "invited" to do so the site administrator and original author, Doug McCall. Just send him an email at: dmccall@cash-aces.ca.

You will receive a return email from this wetpaint web site from Doug McCall inviting you to join the wiki, thereby enabling you to edit pages and add comments. There is no charge for this and it allows you to create your own wikis. Wetpaint does not share your email address with others.

If you wish to play a larger role by being able to create and maintain new pages, invite others etc, contact dmccall@cash-aces.ca.

We will periodically review the additions from all of the contributors and edit for format. (Note: If you add references to this list, please include the hyper link to the actual article or abstract if you can. If you cannot do this, don’t worry, we will seek out the link to the published version and make the link to the document.)

When working with wikis like this one, you can upload documents from your computer, create links to documents on your web site, post questions at the end of each page, add examples or create links to published case studies or create pages on this wiki to descrive case studies. However, this wiki-bibliography, we ask that you add only referencs to published key research articles, research reviews and reports describing what we know about school health.

Contact Information
Douglas McCall
Canadian School Health Centre
University of Victoria
University House 3, Box 3060 STV CSC
Victoria, British Columbia , Canada V8W 3R4

dmccall@cash-aces.ca
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This project is funded by the Health & Learning Knowledge Centre (HLKC) of the Canadian Council on Learning. The mandate of the HLKC is to promote knowledge exchange. Thank you for your cooperation.



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