Do Israeli health promoting schools contribute to students’ healthy eating and physical activity habits?

Hayek, Samah; Tessler, Riki; Bord, Shiran; Endevelt, Ronit; Satran, Carmit; Livne, Irit; Khatib, Mohammed; Harel-Fisch, Yosi; Baron‐Epel, Orna

doi:10.1093/heapro/dax066

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“…Schools that agree to join in the network are committed to achieving educational objectives, in addition to promoting student health and improving the quality of life and well-being of the school community. The Israeli HPS is based on the international network approach and belongs to it [31].…”

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Can Health-Promoting Schools Contribute to Better Health Behaviors? Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Dietary Habits among Israeli Adolescents

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Tesler

Barak

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Schools with health-promoting school (HPS) frameworks are actively committed to enhancing healthy lifestyles. This study explored the contribution of school participation in HPS on students’ health behaviors, namely, physical activity (PA), sedentary behavior, and dieting. Data from the 2018/2019 Health Behavior in School-aged Children study on Israeli adolescents aged 11–17 years were used. Schools were selected from a sample of HPSs and non-HPSs. Between-group differences and predictions of health behavior were analyzed. No between-group differences were observed in mean number of days/week with at least 60 min of PA (HPS: 3.84 ± 2.19 days/week, 95% confidence interval of the mean = 3.02–3.34; non-HPS: 3.93 ± 2.17 days/week, 95% confidence interval of the mean = 3.13–3.38). Most children engaged in screen time behavior for >2 h/day (HPS: 60.83%; non-HPS: 63.91%). The odds of being on a diet were higher among more active children (odds ratio [OR] = 1.20), higher socio-economic status (OR = 1.23), and female (OR = 2.29). HPS did not predict any health behavior. These findings suggest that HPSs did not contribute to health behaviors more than non-HPSs. Therefore, health-promoting activities in HPSs need to be improved in order to justify their recognition as members of the HPS network and to fulfill their mission.

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Can Health-Promoting Schools Contribute to Better Health Behaviors? Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Dietary Habits among Israeli Adolescents

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Tesler

Barak

et al. 2021

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“…We also found that only 1 (2%) made secondary use of existing surveys, and only 4 (8%) consisted of assessments of existing or potential national policy interventions or programs. The national policy interventions or programs assessed were: national reforms in mental health and social care services [ 15 ], financial incentives to attract medical residents to the periphery [ 16 ], and the health promoting schools network [ 17 ], and a potential policy of government sharing of financial risks with health plans [ 18 ]. 8 The only article in the collection to employ secondary analysis of an existing data set used data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) at two selected time points (2006/2007 and 2015) to investigate changes in the rate of informal care provision, which occurred in Israel and Italy in the last decade [ 19 ].…”

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“…The national policy interventions or programs assessed were: national reforms in mental health and social care services [ 15 ], financial incentives to attract medical residents to the periphery [ 16 ], and the health promoting schools network [ 17 ], and a potential policy of government sharing of financial risks with health plans [ 18 ]. 8…”

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Opportunities for diversifying and enriching our article mix

Rosen

Schoenbaum

Israeli

2020

Isr J Health Policy Res

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As 2020 comes to a close, the Israel Journal of Health Policy Research (IJHPR) will soon be starting its tenth year of publication. This editorial compares data from 2012 (the journal’s first year of publication) and 2019 (the journal’s most recent full year of publication), regarding the journal’s mix of article types, topics, data sources and methods, with further drill-downs regarding 2019.The analysis revealed several encouraging findings, including a broad and changing mix of topics covered. However, the analysis also revealed several findings that are less encouraging, including the limited number of articles which assessed national policy changes, examined changes over time, and/or made secondary use of large-scale survey data. These findings apparently reflect, to some extent, the mix of studies being carried out by Israeli health services researchers.As the senior editors of the IJHPR we are interested in working with funders, academic institutions, the owners and principal users of relevant administrative databases, and individual scholars to further understand the factors influencing the mix of research being carried out, and subsequently published, by Israel’s health services research community. This deeper understanding could then be used to develop a joint plan to diversify and enrich health services research and health policy analysis in Israel. The plan should include a policy of ensuring improved access to data, to properly support information-based research.

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“…Recent works addressing diverse areas in Israel’s food system include food security [ 13 ], food welfare, food prices and economic policy [ 4 ], agricultural production [ 17 ], food waste [ 25 ], food and public health [ 9 , 14 ], environmental impacts and sustainability [ 12 , 30 , 33 ], and food systems and society [ 15 ]. However, there are insufficient academic studies addressing Israel’s food system in an integrated and multidisciplinary manner.…”

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Expert opinion survey on Israel’s food system: implications for food and health policies

Soh,

Berry,

Feitelson

2024

Isr J Health Policy Res

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Background While there has been increasing global recognition and impetus for action to transform food systems towards greater food security, sustainability and better health outcomes, Israel has only recently begun to focus on the diverse challenges of its food system and its potential for transformation. Methods An expert opinion survey (n = 50) on Israel’s food system was conducted as part of a larger study on the systemic features of Israel’s food system transition to understand its policy gaps and find strategies towards a healthy and sustainable food system. The survey ranks the relevance and importance of food system challenges and policy preferences. Policy implications are then examined by identifying potential priorities, gaps and dissensus. Results The survey finds that there is a majority agreement (76%) that Israel’s food policies are lacking or severely lacking. Respondents relate strongly to both concepts of nutritional security (90% think that access to nutritious food is relevant or highly relevant) and national food security (more than 80% perceive food security as part of national security). Respondents overwhelmingly recognize the benefits of Israeli agriculture with 60–90% agreeing or strongly agreeing that it benefits food security, economic value and national identity. Top-ranked problems include overall systemic problems such as the lack of national goals, strategic planning, and integrated policymaking across ministries, and specific ones such as food waste, costly farming inputs, and food affordability. The most preferred policy actions include establishing a national strategy for food and agriculture, making food affordable for vulnerable households, and incentivising sustainable farming methods. The key policy gaps include the lack of resilience in agriculture and the food system, insufficient data and knowledge for policy action, inadequate attention to the regulation of the food industry for better health and inadequate food policy attention for minority groups. Conclusions Building on this study's findings, further policy research and implementation areas to be covered include government responsibility for universal food security, strategic systemic policies for food systems, prevention and preparedness for future crises, and promoting resilience. The way forward may best be through an inter-ministerial committee with the responsibility, budgets, mandate and executive authority to plan data-driven policies for a sustainable food system for Israel’s future.

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Do Israeli health promoting schools contribute to students’ healthy eating and physical activity habits?

Cited by 7 publications

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Can Health-Promoting Schools Contribute to Better Health Behaviors? Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Dietary Habits among Israeli Adolescents

Can Health-Promoting Schools Contribute to Better Health Behaviors? Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Dietary Habits among Israeli Adolescents

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Expert opinion survey on Israel’s food system: implications for food and health policies

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