Health Needs: Policy Plan and School Practice in Greece

Autor/inn/en	Soultatou, Pelagia; Duncan, Peter; Athanasiou, Kyriacos; Papadopoulos, Irena
Titel	Health Needs: Policy Plan and School Practice in Greece
Quelle	In: Health Education, 111 (2011) 4, S.266-282 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0965-4283
DOI	10.1108/09654281111144247
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Health Needs; National Curriculum; Health Education; Secondary Schools; Educational Policy; Grounded Theory; Discourse Analysis; Needs Assessment; Greece + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Sekundarschule; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Diskursanalyse; Bedarfsermittlung; Griechenland
Abstract	Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of health-related needs on a policy design and curriculum enactment basis in terms of the national school health education curriculum in Greek secondary education. Design/methodology/approach: A single case study, using an ethnographic approach, was conducted in Greece, seeking to understand the continuum from policy design to curriculum enactment in respect of health-related needs. Three sources of data were used to meet this goal: policy texts, observation, and interviews. Multilevel sampling was employed to select one secondary school as a site for "good practice". Grounded theory coding, thematic analysis and critical discourse analysis identified themes associated with the idea of health-related through the corpus of data. Findings: On a policy plan level the concept of health-related needs was coupled with and reduced to a predetermined list of health-related subjects; and the list of health-related topics had not been updated for long and was characterised by a rather biomedical orientation. On a school practice level the stage of needs assessment was not applied, the list of health-related subjects advocated in the policy plan was used on a proactive, normative and top down basis, and the students' felt needs tended to be disregarded. Originality/value: This study followed up the continuum from policy design to school practice regarding the concept and practice of health needs, highlighting the possibilities and the problems from both perspectives. (Contains 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10