Background Healthy children achieve better educational outcomes which, in turn, are
associated with improved health later in life. The World Health Organization's Health …

Background Increasing awareness of the complexity of public health problems, including
obesity, has led to growing interest in whole systems approaches (WSAs), defined as those …

Background The World Health Organization's (WHO's) Health Promoting Schools (HPS)
framework is an holistic, settings‐based approach to promoting health and educational …

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has emerged in the last decades as a
transformative research paradigm that bridges the gap between science and practice …

This report calls on the nation—its leaders, its mental health research and service provision
agencies, its schools, its primary care medical systems, its community-based organizations …

Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity-Research and Public Policy Second Edition is a
collaborative effort by an international group of addiction scientists to improve the linkages …

Positive youth development is thought to be essential to the prevention of adolescent risk
behavior and the promotion of thriving. This meta-analysis examined the effects of positive …

Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and
Possibilities | The National Academies Press Skip to main content Navigate to Help Ordering …

This paper reviews the magnitude and empirical findings of social epidemiological
neighborhood effects research. An electronic keyword literature search identified 1369 …

Although research has documented the positive effects of family-based prevention
programs, the field lacks specific information regarding why these programs are effective …