Filling the black box of implementation for health-promoting schools

Health Education

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 347-362

  Rowling, Louise ^a   Samdal, Oddrun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Health; Health promotion; Implementation; Learning organizations; Practice; Schools; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052561638     PISSN: 09654283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09654281111161202     Document Type: Article

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