The School Health Insider - An ISHN Subscription Service

Tracking research, news, commentary, resources and reports on healthy, safe, community, equitable, inclusive, sustainable and effective schools

Archive (By Year/Month/Week        Trends/Themes/Topics We are Tracking     Country/State Collections of Resources/Reports/Research  

Welcome to our subscription-based information service offered as a membership benefit by the International School Health Network in partnership with Shannon & McCall Consulting Ltd. In these pages, you will find weekly and monthly reports identifying research articles and reviews, important news stories, commentaries from a variety of sources, educational and planning resources and other information. This information is collected daily from over 400 journals, over 150 media outlets and over 100 social media sources. Each week contains 5-10 highlights, about 20 research/data/program reviews, about 30 news stories and links to SH&D articles from about 100 journals.  The articles and documents are listed by title and made conveniently accessible via direct web links. Postings to the School Health Insider have been made daily since September 2007.

We are also tracking selected topics or themes by extracting various articles, reports and resources. In some cases, we have prepared summaries or commentaries from this material.

As well, this ISHN information service has been compiling key documents, articles, reports and resources on each of the 200 countries and over 100 states/provinces. This is a significant undertaking that is ongoing. However, we are able to use various projects and other ISHN to continually add web links to country/state policy documents, curricula and programs each month. This section includes links to Wikipedia summaries on each country to help provide important contextual information. 

Postings for 2019
These weekly and monthly reports are posted in reverse chronological order. Some selected reports are available as open access web links but most are available only to ISHN subscribers. Go to this web page for subscriber/membership information. Contact dmccall@internationalschoolhealth.org for more information. 
Note: This information service was re-started and moved to the ISHN web site from its previous private web site (www.schoolhealthinsider.org). We are gradually transferring that previous content to this web site. Please refer to our archive.

Weekly/Monthly Reports

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July

• July 29-Aug 4, 2019 (Articles from about journals focused on environmental education, equity and place, infectious diseases, organizational and staff development, low income countries, systematic reviews and various journals/newsletters from UN agencies
  
• July 22-28, 2019 (Articles from journals focused on personal, social development, family life/home economics, sexual and reproductive health, social work, child protection, child welfare and extended education/after school learning
  
• July 15-21, 2019 (Articles from journals focused on nutrition, physical activity, crime prevention, safety, behaviour disorders, accidental injury, and infectious diseases (Subscribers Only)
  
• July 8-14, 2019 (Articles from Journals on Child or Adolescent Development, Mental Health & Addictions) (Subscribers Only)
  
• July 1-7, 2019 (Articles from over journals on school health & development, health/health promotion & education) (Open access)
  

June

Topics/Themes Being Tracked

As we monitor the vast amount of information each week, we are tracking and extracting various materials on several selected themes or topics. Please find below a list of these topics/themes. ISHN is planning to work with selected organizations and practitioners/ experts to enhance these topic-focused collections and summaries. If you or your organization is interested, contact dmccall@internationalschoolhealth.org

Topics/Themes

• Understanding & Working With Teachers
  Teacher work lives, beliefs, norms as well their education and development will affect their capacity to teach and deal with health, social and poverty issues. This theme offers a deep dive into this topic that goes far beyond simply preparing teachers to teach about a specific issue or program
  

Highlights Posted Each Week

Each week we identify 5-10 items that we think are important. Some of our favourites are displayed below.

• Applying a Systems Approach to Public Health
  The July Issue of Health Promotion Practice includes an article describing the systems-based approach used by the Prevention Institute. "In October 2018, Prevention Institute released System of Prevention, a book that uses graphic design to illustrate Prevention Institute’s framework for a systems approach to population health that can achieve health equity. The Elements of a System of Prevention include: A shared vision, multilevel action, elevated community voices and leadership, facilitated community partnerships and multisector collaboration, an empowered and skilled prevention workforce grounded in social justice, making the case for prevention and equity, gathering and sharing data and stable sources of funding. Read more about the PI model. (ISHN Comment: All the PI elements are valid but we would categorize them as different elements of system or organizational capacity. In our view, we need to examine the features of the publicly funded systems that need to alter their structures and practices. These include new structures, joint budget-making, jointly named staff positions, negotiated and explicit joint annual priorities and more. See the ISHN statement calling for a new paradigm for school health promotion based on systems-focused action.
• Family-School Engagement: Special Issue of School Psychology
  The July 2019 Issue of School Psychology delves deep into family-school engagement. Articles examine how parental engagement varies as children and adolescents develop and as they attend primary and middle schools. The relationships between parents and their children as a factor is also examined. Two articles examine how parents of children with autism can be engaged successfully in school teams.
• Critical Incidents (Part of Systems Science) Explains Implementation
  Critical Incidents are an important concept within a systems science approach to implementing, maintaining, scaling up and sustaining programs. An article in Volume 232, 2019 of Social Science used CI to describe and understand how critical incidents or junctures in the implementation of multi-intervention school physical activity program. The analysis revealed 39 critical incidents in the trial. " The "Let's Move It” (LMI) randomized trial evaluated a theory-based whole school system intervention aiming to increase physical activity (PA) of adolescents attending vocational schools. This article serves two main purposes: to describe how to use the critical incident technique (CIT) to conduct in qualitative process evaluation to identify events, including intervention elements, which LMI trial participants perceived to enable or support behavior change. The CIT seems a promising approach for directing analysis towards potentially crucial intervention elements as described by the participants themselves..."
  

School Health & Development Blog

Here is our Blog on School Health & Social Development, which is updated daily with highlights and commentaries from our extensive monitoring of journals, media and social media. If you would like to display this blog on your web site, contact info@internationalschoolhealth.org