How can critical incidents be used to describe health promotion in the Finnish European Network of Health Promoting Schools?

Health Promotion International

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 419-427

  Turunen, Hannele ^a   Tossavainen, Kerttu ^a   Vertio, Harri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b Finnish Centre of Health Promotion   (Finland)

Author keywords

Critical incident; Health promotion; School community

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EUROPE; FINLAND; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SMOKING; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FINLAND; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SMOKING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 10644257937     PISSN: 09574824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dah403     Document Type: Article

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