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. 2009 May 8;9:125. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-125

Table 2.

Settings for and types of health promotion in TEENAGE, including some examples of potential interventions in cells of the table.

Setting Health education Environmental interventions
Individual Physical Socio-cultural Economical Political
Individual - mass media
- brochures, leaflets
- tailored interventions
Micro
Home - availability cigarettes, alcohol, exercise equipment, fruit - provision family support - targeting parenting style
School - school-based health education - availability healthy and unhealthy canteen food, exercise equipment - targeting peer pressure - changing costs of healthy and unhealthy food - changing school policies with regard to health promotion
- providing free breakfast in schools - increasing numbers of hours of physical activity
Neighbourhood/friends - bill boards - availability shops selling cigarettes, alcohol, fruit, vegetables, exercise places, parks - peer pressures - prices of exercise facilities
Laws and policies
Macro
National - opening hours bars - taxation - bans on advertisement