Rebecca Langford

TL;DR: The results of this review provide evidence for the effectiveness of some interventions based on the Health Promoting Schools framework for improving certain health outcomes but not others; however, there was a lack of long-term follow-up data for most studies.

TL;DR: The Cochrane review has found the WHO HPS framework is effective at improving some aspects of student health, and the effects are small but potentially important at a population level.

TL;DR: The synthesis found that although sex is a potent and potentially embarrassing topic, schools appear reluctant to acknowledge this and attempt to teach SRE in the same way as other subjects, leading to SRE that is out of touch with many young people's lives.

TL;DR: Stronger alliances between health and education appear essential to intervention success, and process evaluations must move beyond simple measures of acceptability/fidelity to include detailed contextual information to illuminate exactly what works, for whom, in what contexts and why.

TL;DR: Evidence suggests that for multiple risk behaviours, universal school-based interventions were beneficial in relation to tobacco use and over the longer term, and that such interventions may be effective in preventing illicit drug use.