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Table 2 Settings for and types of health promotion in TEENAGE, including some examples of potential interventions in cells of the table.

From: Preventing socioeconomic inequalities in health behaviour in adolescents in Europe: Background, design and methods of project TEENAGE

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