OBJECTIVES To implement and assess Fédération Internationale de Football Association Medical Assessment and Research Centre's '11 for Health' football-based health education programme for children. DESIGN Prospective, 2-cohort study. SETTING In-school groups (Mauritius); out-of-school groups (Zimbabwe). PARTICIPANTS Mauritius: 389 children, aged 12-15 years; Zimbabwe: 395 children, aged 1...

Health technology A school-based dental sealant programme for low socioeconomic status (low-SES) children was considered. This clinical preventive programme included oral hygiene instructions, weekly sodium fluoride rinses, dental sealants (either for repairing lost sealants, or for sealing newly erupted teeth), and referrals to the students family dentists or the Peekskill Area Health Center (...

BACKGROUND School-based interventions and campaigns are used to promote health and address a wide variety of public health problems. Schools are considered to be key sites for the implementation of health promotion programmes for their potential to reach the whole population in particular age-groups and instil healthy patterns of behavior early in life. However, evidence for the effectiveness o...

This paper reports the findings of a research investigation into the effect of knowledge management (KM) on the performance of programme-level services innovation. It explores the factors which influence the way in which the "task knowledge" required to complete the new service development (NSD) process is created, transferred and stored. Based on results of a large survey of UK-based service c...

The effective training of facilitator/ tutors is crucial to the success of a problem-based learning approach to medical education. New skills are needed to accomplish the change from giver of information to facilitator of learning, coach, and guide. This paper outlines considerations for the design of a tutor training programme and describes the Harvard Medical School programme in detail.