What do healthpromoting schools promote?:Processes and outcomes in school health promotion

Health Education

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 84-88

  Simovska, Venka ^a,b  

^a Aarhus University ^*

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Children; Curriculum; Health; Health education; Health literacy; Health promoting schools; Participation; Promotion; Wellbeing; Young people

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857666570     PISSN: 09654283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09654281211214527     Document Type: Review

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