Health Promotion for Children from the Rural and Indigenous Communities

Dear Colleagues,

The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion set health promotion as a globally accepted strategy to guide health and social services. Health promotion principles can be effectively applied for all age groups across all income group categories in both rural and urban areas. Health promotion is especially conducive for low socio-economic groups, where its community empowerment component emerges as a significant advantage.

The Special Issue aims to produce papers on a range of children-oriented interventions, with a special focus on rural and indigenous communities across the globe.

Conducting health promotion to improve health outcomes for children requires innovation that will accommodate the children’s developmental stages and literacy levels, and often integrates the characteristics of the parents.

We solicit a range of papers which will include the development and/or implementation of health promotion and health education interventions, program evaluation, and school-based programs.

Dr. Kebogile Elizabeth Mokwena
Prof. Dr. Mathildah Mpata Mokgatle
Guest Editors

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