School can be an effective environment for achieving a more equal health among children and adolescents, since many individuals can be reached by the health Promoting work in the school. In the year of 2000 a project in Skåne was started for the development of health Promoting schools. The health Promoting projects however, have shown to be of short duration. So, as an alternative, the integration of the health in school ought to be tried. The aim of this study is to give examples how health Promoting schools can strengthen their profile.

School can be an effective environment for achieving a more equal health among children and adolescents, since many individuals can be reached by the health Promoting work in the school. In the year of 2000 a project in Skåne was started for the development of health Promoting schools. The health Promoting projects however, have shown to be of short duration. So, as an alternative, the integration of the health in school ought to be tried. The aim of this study is to give examples how health Promoting schools can strengthen their profile.

The purpose of this study has been to examine what approach and experience pedagogues at pre-schools, with a limited amount of nationalities, have regarding cultural Promoting work in pre-schools. The concept ?cultural Promoting? mainly regards the children's cultural backgrounds. The first question formulation focussed on the what the concepts ?cultural Promoting? and ?cultural diversity? meant to the pedagogues.

The aim of this study was to examine how some Swedish school counsellor?s describe their school social work and how they look at its content. Further more the aim is to look at what restraining and Promoting factors the school counsellor?s experience in their working situation. The approach of the study is qualitative and interviews have been made with five school counsellors.

Good conditions in the workplace, fairness in the workplace and the social differences contribute to a general improvement in public health. A health-Promoting leader is working to create a workplace that promotes health, supports its employees and contributes to their wellbeing. The purpose of this study was to investigate the first-line managers in the city of Västerås experience and deal with their conditions and obstacles in the health-Promoting leadership. A qualitative approach was chosen and the selection was six first-line managers working in three different areas of the City of Västerås. Managers were interviewed by an interviewguide and the material was analyzed with a manifest content analysis, with an inductive approach.

The aim of this study was to investigate how school personnel work with preventive and health Promoting efforts to motivate young people to achieve interest in physical activity and nutrition awareness. Further the aim was to describe the possibilities and difficulties that school personnel experience in their work.  The research questions were: How do school personnel describe their health Promoting work at school? In a health promotion perspective, what efforts do school personnel think is important when it comes to nutrition and physical activity? What possibilities do school personnel experience with health Promoting efforts? What difficulties do school personnel experience with health Promoting efforts?The study has a qualitative approach in which seven individual interviews were conducted with personnel at a secondary school. The respondents worked with different aspects which broadened the perspective.

With starting point in the increasing ill-health in Swedish working life today, in form of for example absence due to sickness and early retirement pension, and the knowledge that the working environment effects peoples health in a big extent, I found it very interesting to inquire into how people within the working life experience health promotion and how this can be developed. A qualitative method was used to receive a deeper understanding for the employees? experiences and data was collected through semi structured interviews with employees on a bank called Ikanobanken, in Älmhult. The result shows, among other things, that respondents find responsibility and the opportunity to influence the learning processes and development important. It also became clear that the respondents find participation, motivation, communication and safety essential factors when related to changes in health behaviours.

Background: First Line Managers are expected to create a health Promoting work environment. Research has shown that the prerequisites for accomplishing a health Promoting leadership are not always the best. Aim: The aim was to elucidate the prerequisites for a health Promoting leadership as First Line Manager at a University hospital in Sweden based on competence, role, support structures and own durability. Results: First Line Managers at the chosen hospital seems to have rather good conditions for conducting a health Promoting leadership. All respondents did have a university degree and most thought that their competence corresponded well with the role.

Background: First Line Managers are expected to create a health Promoting work environment. Research has shown that the prerequisites for accomplishing a health Promoting leadership are not always the best. Aim: The aim was to elucidate the prerequisites for a health Promoting leadership as First Line Manager at a University hospital in Sweden based on competence, role, support structures and own durability. Results: First Line Managers at the chosen hospital seems to have rather good conditions for conducting a health Promoting leadership. All respondents did have a university degree and most thought that their competence corresponded well with the role.

Background: First Line Managers are expected to create a health Promoting work environment. Research has shown that the prerequisites for accomplishing a health Promoting leadership are not always the best. Aim: The aim was to elucidate the prerequisites for a health Promoting leadership as First Line Manager at a University hospital in Sweden based on competence, role, support structures and own durability. Results: First Line Managers at the chosen hospital seems to have rather good conditions for conducting a health Promoting leadership. All respondents did have a university degree and most thought that their competence corresponded well with the role.

Good conditions in the workplace, fairness in the workplace and the social differences contribute to a general improvement in public health. A health-Promoting leader is working to create a workplace that promotes health, supports its employees and contributes to their wellbeing. The purpose of this study was to investigate the first-line managers in the city of Västerås experience and deal with their conditions and obstacles in the health-Promoting leadership. A qualitative approach was chosen and the selection was six first-line managers working in three different areas of the City of Västerås. Managers were interviewed by an interviewguide and the material was analyzed with a manifest content analysis, with an inductive approach.

This essay is about gender equality in a Swedish upper secondary school. The aim is twofold: to obtain knowledge about feminism, gender equality, boys´ and girls´ situations in schools and gender equality work there; and to find out if government management documents for schools work effectively when it comes to Promoting gender equality in schools. There are four research questions: How do teachers interpret what´s said in management documents for schools? What strategies do teachers use to promote gender equality? What opportunities and obstacles do teachers see for Promoting gender equality at the specific school? And, finally, do the management documents for the school work effectively when it comes to Promoting gender equality?The study has a socialist feminist perspective, which sees gender differences as a result of a mix of biological, historical and social factors. Important theoretical standpoints include gender socialization as an explanation for how girls and boys become women and men.The results of the study points out that teachers interpret management documents differently, and that they find the documents hard to understand.

With starting point in the increasing ill-health in Swedish working life today, in form of for example absence due to sickness and early retirement pension, and the knowledge that the working environment effects peoples health in a big extent, I found it very interesting to inquire into how people within the working life experience health promotion and how this can be developed. A qualitative method was used to receive a deeper understanding for the employees? experiences and data was collected through semi structured interviews with employees on a bank called Ikanobanken, in Älmhult. The result shows, among other things, that respondents find responsibility and the opportunity to influence the learning processes and development important. It also became clear that the respondents find participation, motivation, communication and safety essential factors when related to changes in health behaviours.

Background: First Line Managers are expected to create a health Promoting work environment. Research has shown that the prerequisites for accomplishing a health Promoting leadership are not always the best. Aim: The aim was to elucidate the prerequisites for a health Promoting leadership as First Line Manager at a University hospital in Sweden based on competence, role, support structures and own durability. Results: First Line Managers at the chosen hospital seems to have rather good conditions for conducting a health Promoting leadership. All respondents did have a university degree and most thought that their competence corresponded well with the role.

Nilsson, P. (2005). Which manager qualities can be related to a health promotive leadership? A questionnaire study among managers at hospitals. (41 p.)AbstractPeople?s working life and individual health can be seen as strongly related to each other because people spend the most of their adult lives at their places of work.