Leeds Health Education Database

What is my experience in health promotion?

I have worked in more than 35 countries in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Caribbean. This has involved planning, implementation and evaluation of programme activities, design of training curricula and materials and carrying out of training programmes.

Below are summarised some of my many interests inlcuding Losing weight

1. General support for health education/health promotion activities

• Consultant to ODA Kumasi Health Education Project (1992,1993) and Volta Regional Health Service strengthening programme (1994, 1995) - both in Ghana - and Orissa Family health project in India (1992, 1993).
• Member of review teams for DANIDA-supported health education/IEC national support programmes in Tanzania (1993) and Bhutan (1993) Provision of health education support to ODA-supported slum improvement projects in Hyderabad (1990) and Indore (1992)
• Consultant to WHO (Geneva HQ and EMRO Region) providing technical support to organization of health promotion policies for WHO Geneva (1999), Iran (1999) and Kuwait (2000)
• Consultant to WHO Global Programme on AIDS (1994) developing a manual on intervention planning
• Consultant to DFID/Government of China helping to design a marketing strategy for medicaid programmes to bring health care to poor urban communities in Sezchuan and Liaoning Provinces (2008)
• Consultant to DFID/Government of China (Taiyun City, Shanxi provice) co-facilitating a workshop in health promotion for province and county level health personnel.
• Consultant to EC/Kingdom of Cambodia and team leader for a project formulation mission to Cambodia (2003) to design an intervention to support health promotion services
• DFID consultant to PATHS programme in Nigeria to act as team leader for group develeoping a health prootion policy for Nigeria October 2005 (Policy adopted in 2006 - see ccover of policy document in illustration on right).

   

  Some of the sites that I have found useful to my work are in my links section (see also links to AIDS/STD. Reproductive Health and Water/Sanitation/Hygiene given below)

  My approach to health promotion is based on the HESIAD model - in which Health Education, Service Improvements and Advocacy are combined in an integrated approach. I first developed this model while working for WHO's Global Programme on AIDS.

  I am interested in exploring the concept of health empowerment and linking it to underlying processes of health literacy and self efficacy and you are invited to read and comment on a review that I am currently writing on Lesbians.

2. Reproductive health including AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases.

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• Consultant to WHO Global Programme on AIDS on missions in: Lesotho, Swaziland, Ghana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Brunei, Philipines, Saipan, Guam Bulgaria and Greece 1987-9.
• Project identification/review and general support missions for the AIDS Task Force of  European Community in Nigeria, Namibia, Malawi, China, Fiji, New Caledonia (1992-6)
• Management of a one-year project for the European Commission (DG5) reviewing HIV/AIDS Training in Europe (1994) and a f oject on HIV/AIDS training in Southern Europe (1995)
• Author of The AIDS Handbook published by Macmillans  originally published in 1990 and with a third edition due in 2008 (click on link to see outline of objectives and content
• New Involved in research on men and masculinity and reproductive health - see recent paper on Evaluating men's involvement in sexual and reproductive health co-authored with Dr Peter Sternberg (click here to download PDF of paper)
• Consultant to FAO, Rome assisting in the development of a manual on nutrition for persons with HIV/AIDS
• DFID consultant to Society of Family Health/Actionaid Nigeria to assisgt in scaling up of peer education programmes for HIV/AIDSin Nigeria (July and September 2005)
• Member of DFID/World Bank Tean reviewing the Mulstisectoral Action Plan for assisting HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (Nov 2006)

  As part of support to the AIDS Handbook information and resources I maintain a links page on AIDS, STDs and Reproductive Health

  I visited Zambia in June 2004. Click here to share the inspirational experience I had on the use of folk media to promote HIV/AIDS.

• Author of report on school health in India published by British Council, 1995
• Health Education Events Calendar for 2012
• Consultant developing reproductive health programmes targeted at youth in Africa and Pacific regions (AIDS Task Force) 1992-5.
• Technical support to ODA supported Andhra Pradesh school health promotion programmes in India implemented by British Council.(1994, 1995)
• A comprehensive review of the global literature on school health promotion for ODA/British Council (1996)
• Review of school hygiene/sanitation programmes in Malawi. (1999) and  support for Tanzania National School Health Programme (1999)
• Series editor for a set of 12 health readers published by Macmillan Education from 1998 onwardsand available from Macmillans directly or from Teaching AIDS at Low Cost (TALC)
• New Author of two readers on HIV/AIDS for primary schools (HIV/AIDS How to stay safe and Caring for people affected by HIV/AIDS

4. Water, sanitation, hygiene and diarrhoea

• Consultancies on water/sanitation projects  with ODA in Lesotho (1984-5), CARE in Rwanda (1994) and WELL/DFID in Malawi (1999);
• Involvement in WHO's Diarrhoeal Disease programme in China (1991,1992), Diarrhoeal Disease Research programme of Harvard University/USAID in Nigeria (1992)
• Participation in WHO technical consultations on hygiene education (1990, 1992)
• Running courses on health education aspects of water, sanitation and hygiene the universities of Leeds, Surrey and Delft.
• Series editor for school health readers on water/sanitation/hygiene -Macmillans (available from TALC)

  I maintain a links page to useful sites for water, sanitation and hygiene

   

• Member of the editorial team for Community Eye Health and contributer of acticles
• Participant in meetings of the International Trachoma Initiative
• Review paper in preparation on the role of health promotion in the prevention of blindness which sets out The Eye Health Matrix and a framework for eye health promotion and draws from eye health section of the Leeds Health Education Database (see below).
• New Co-author of Effective teaching and learning for eye health workers published by the International Eye Centre. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

• Development of diploma courses on health education and health promotion in developing countries at Leeds Polytechnic/Leeds Metropolitan University 1980-1999.
• Visiting lecturer: Universities of Delft, Heidelberg, Uppsala, Surrey, Exeter and Leeds
• Photographer/author of teaching slide sets published by TALC on subjects including: Child Development in India, Schools and Primary Health Care, Prevention and AIDS, Peer Group Education.
• Consultant to AIDS Task Force facilitating  workshops for production of posters, leaflets and videos on preventing STDs Nigeria, Namibia and Malawi (1993-5)

• Author of more than 40 papers in journals, newsletters and other publications
• Author of the following books:
  • Communicating Health - an action guide to health education and health promotion Macmillan (1993) is a basic manual that gives clear and simple on health education and health promotion using a variety of methods and settings. . This publication is distributed through Teaching AIDS at Low Cost and has become a standard text for health education courses. Click on link for outline of contents. A new edition has just been published with a dedicated web site providing additional resource materials including powerpoint presentations. Further details are (book available from TALC)
  • Public health - an action guide to improving health in developing countries by Walley,J., Wright,J. & Hubley,J. (2001) Oxford University Press (click on picture below for futher details)
  • The AIDS Handbook Revised is a new and completely updated version of The AIDS Handbook - (see the AIDS section above) that is due out early 2008 (will be available from TALC) (click on link to see outline of objectives and content)
• On editorial boards of Health Education Research and Community Eye Health. Joint editor of special issue of Health Education Research on Health Education and the Internet December 2001

8. The Leeds Health Education Database

This is an ongoing research project to set up a computer-based data-base of evaluated health education /promotion interventions in developing countries. The initial stage has been completed with over 600 publications reviewed and 350 entered into the database. Further analysis of the entries is being carried out to develop a book on evidence-based health promotion to be funded by DFID.

Click on the appropriate word for: background details of the Leeds Health Education Database; a complete listing of entries in the database; and a listing of papers reviewed but not included together with reasons for their exclusion.

For full abstract fields with details of target group/country, intervention methodology, evaluation method and impact achieved click on the links:

AIDS & sexually transmitted diseases	Nutrition education
Family planning and sex education	Infectious/tropical diseases including malaria, TB, leprosy, dengue and Schistosomiasis
Maternal and child health/family health	Eye health
Childbirth/safe motherhood	Oral heath (dental health)
Breastfeeding	Environmental health including water sanitation and hygiene education
Oral rehydration therapy	Chronic diseases (including cancers, heart disease, disability and mental health, substance abuse including alcohol/tobacco
Immunization uptake	Miscellaneous including primary health care, use of lay workers, injury prevention, patient education and use of medicines
Acute respiratory infections	Mass media
Growth monitoring	Schools
	Patient education/ Health facility -based references cited in a manuscript submitted to Pateint Education and Counselling Jan 2009

 

Contact address for full details of availability and consultancy rates

Sarah Hubley

Leeds Metropolitan University Civic Quarter Leeds United Kingdom LS1 3HE

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