Welcome to the second issue of the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education for 2020. We hope you enjoy this interesting selection of papers drawn from around the world. The first paper, from Nigeria by Adewusi and Oyewole, explores factors influencing men’s preventive reproductive health behaviours. Prevention is a very important strategy for health promotion and health education. The study reports on data generated by a questionnaire completed by 272 male civil servants in Nigeria that was designed to elicit knowledge about preventive reproductive practices. The respondents’ knowledge levels were low resulting in inadequate preventive reproductive health behaviours. The authors’ rightly point out that people cannot act on what they do not know, a fact that makes education for health so vital. However, this was not the only reason that the respondents did not engage in preventive reproductive health behaviours. Other factors included lack of knowledge about available reproductive health services, lack of trust in healthcare professionals and the attitude of healthcare workers which all have implications for service delivery and design. The lessons learned here are transferable to other similar contexts. The second paper is from the United Kingdom and reports on a qualitative study of mothers’ experiences of breast feeding. Breast feeding is a significant global public health issue and is a national public health priority for many countries. Like many other higher income countries rates of breast feeding remain low in this context, despite the proven health benefits. Dowling et al. therefore carried out semi-structured interviews with 24 mothers in order to explore their experiences of breast feeding. Through thematic analysis of the data they found that there were three significant stages of time for breast feeding for the women they spoke to. These were before birth, around the time of birth and once the mother was at home after the birth. Dowling et al. conclude that breast feeding support needs to be aligned with the different stages in the experiences of mothers and that the continuation of breast feeding is influenced by the support experienced at pre-natal, birth and post-natal stages. Thus the support of public health professionals appears to be crucial in sustaining optimum breast feeding in such contexts. The next paper turns to another important global public health issue, tuberculosis. This paper from Iran presents the findings of a study that aimed to determine the impact of an education intervention on the knowledge and practices of people referred to urban health centres in relation to tuberculosis prevention. Sahebkar et al. found a significant improvement in the knowledge and practice parameters after the education intervention had taken place concluding that education is effective in creating positive changes in these areas. As also demonstrated and discussed in the paper by Adewusi and Oyewole, education is crucial in changing knowledge, challenging existing beliefs, and informing health behaviours. The final paper also reaffirms this in relation to oral health. Smith et al. report on an evaluation of a health education programme in Australia that was designed INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH PROMOTION AND EDUCATION 2020, VOL. 58, NO. 2, 55–56 https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2020.1714140

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欢迎阅读 2020 年国际健康促进与教育杂志第二期。我们希望您喜欢这些来自世界各地的有趣论文选集。Adewusi 和 Oyewole 在尼日利亚发表的第一篇论文探讨了影响男性预防性生殖健康行为的因素。预防是健康促进和健康教育的一项非常重要的策略。该研究报告了由尼日利亚 272 名男性公务员完成的问卷调查生成的数据，该问卷旨在获取有关预防性生殖实践的知识。受访者的知识水平较低，导致预防性生殖健康行为不足。作者正确地指出，人们无法对他们不知道的事情采取行动，这一事实使得健康教育如此重要。然而，这并不是受访者不参与预防性生殖健康行为的唯一原因。其他因素包括缺乏对可用生殖健康服务的了解、对医疗保健专业人员缺乏信任以及医疗保健工作者的态度，这些都对服务提供和设计产生影响。这里学到的经验教训可以转移到其他类似的环境中。第二篇论文来自英国，报告了一项关于母亲母乳喂养经历的定性研究。母乳喂养是一个重要的全球公共卫生问题，也是许多国家的国家公共卫生优先事项。与许多其他高收入国家一样，尽管已证明对健康有益，但在这种情况下，母乳喂养率仍然很低。道林等人。因此，我们对 24 位母亲进行了半结构化访谈，以探讨她们的母乳喂养经历。通过对数据的专题分析，他们发现与他们交谈的女性的母乳喂养时间分为三个重要阶段。这些是在出生前、出生前后以及母亲在出生后在家时。道林等人。得出结论，母乳喂养支持需要与母亲经历的不同阶段保持一致，并且母乳喂养的继续受到产前、出生和产后阶段所经历的支持的影响。因此，公共卫生专业人员的支持似乎对于在这种情况下维持最佳母乳喂养至关重要。下一篇论文转向另一个重要的全球公共卫生问题，结核病。这篇来自伊朗的论文介绍了一项研究的结果，该研究旨在确定教育干预对转介到城市卫生中心的人们在结核病预防方面的知识和实践的影响。萨赫布卡尔等人。发现在进行教育干预后，知识和实践参数有了显着改善，得出的结论是教育可以有效地在这些领域创造积极的变化。正如 Adewusi 和 Oyewole 在论文中所证明和讨论的那样，教育对于改变知识、挑战现有信念和告知健康行为至关重要。最后一篇论文也重申了这一点与口腔健康有关。史密斯等人。关于澳大利亚健康教育计划的评估报告，该计划是 2020 年国际健康促进与教育杂志，音量。58，没有。2, 55–56 https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2020.1714140