School-based drug abuse prevention: promising and successful programs
This document is organized in three chapters.
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National policy and strategic framework on adolescent health and development. Administrative Order n°2013-0013
This Order aims to: provide a strategic framework for the Adolescent Health Program that is anchored on Universal Health Care, and provide policy direction and guidance for DOH offices, its attached agencies, LGU's, and development partners in prioritizing interventions for adolescent health
National strategy for the prevention and management of alcohol and drug use amongst learners in schools
Alcohol and drug abuse is a global challenge, which has detrimental effects on the health, wealth and security of nations. Its impact is being felt in schools in South Africa and is compromising the quality of teaching and learning and the safety of learning spaces.
Alcohol and other drug education programmes. Guide for schools
This guide provides introductory information for schools on alcohol and other drug education (AoD) programmes.This guide focuses mainly on two contexts for AoD education programmes for young people: school-wide health promotion activities; and curriculum teaching and learning programmes in the h
The WHO Health Promoting School framework for improving the health and well-being of students and their academic achievement (Review)
Background: The World Health Organization's (WHO’s) Health Promoting Schools (HPS) framework is an holistic, settings-based approach to promoting health and educational attainment in school. The effectiveness of this approach has not been previously rigorously reviewed.
Public health in action: effective school health needs renewed international attention
School health programmes as a platform to deliver high-impact health interventions are currently underrated by decision makers and do not get adequate attention from the international public health community.
Efficacy of an American alcohol and hiv prevention curriculum adapted for use in South Africa: results of a pilot study in five township schools
The high prevalence of HIV among young people in African countries underscores a pressing need for effective prevention interventions.
Survey on substance use, risk behaviour and mental health among grade 8-10 learners in Western Cape provincial schools, 2011
In 2010/2011 the Provincial Government of the Western Cape (PGWC) in partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Southern Africa tasked the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Unit at the South African Medical Research Council with conducting a survey in order to determine t
Life skills for national development in Lesotho: Can ODL do it?
Regardless of their diversity in culture, economic conditions and social and political structures, developing countries share a set of common and well defined goals.
Sexual coercion among in-school adolescents in Rwanda: prevalence and correlates of victimization and normative acceptance
Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to sexual coercion, as victim as well as perpetrator. This paper aims to adapt sexual and reproductive health interventions to the reality of young people’s sexuality and relationships.