Mann, M. J., & Lohrmann, D. K. (2019). Addressing challenges to the reliable, large-scale implementation of effective school health education. Health Promotion Practice, 20, 834-844. doi:10.1177/1524839919870196
In the version of this article originally published OnlineFirst, some descriptions of CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) were unclear. These have been corrected for subsequent versions of the article as noted in bold in the text passages below.
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“Additionally, during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the CDC Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) emerged as another change agent in 1988 (Institute of Medicine, 1997).”
“By the late 1990s, these efforts expanded to include a focus on physical activity, nutrition, and tobacco use prevention with added Congressional funding (Rasberry, Slade, Lohrmann, & Valois, 2015). In 2011, however, DASH was relocated to the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention. Today DASH has reduced its reach to state-level agencies and shifted its remaining resources to focus on HIV/AIDS prevention in 28 large urban school districts and six national organizations, none of which focuses primarily on education (CDC, 2019). These funds are now used to support work in HIV/AIDS prevention, sexually transmitted disease, and pregnancy among teens. DASH also continues to support the implementation of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey and, until recently, the School Health Policies and Practices Study. CDC’s NCCDPHP School Health Branch funds state education agencies, local education agencies, and national organizations to increase the quantity and quality of physical education, health education, and physical activity; improve the nutritional quality of foods provided in schools; and improve the capacity of schools to manage chronic conditions.”
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“Together, the closure and federal reorganization of OSDFS and changes in funding to CDC may have contributed to a reduction in the overall number of school health education change agents and advocates.”
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“Although the format of the 2016 School Health Policies and Practice Study (SHPPS) changed from previous years and did not directly report on schools’ overall progress toward achieving the Healthy People 2020 targets, a range of trends suggested continued insufficient progress toward ensuring delivery of high-quality health education in every school (CDC, 2017).”
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“Meanwhile, the capacities or foci of traditional governmental champions, including the Federal Interagency Committee on School Health, the National Coordinating Committee on School Health and Safety, and the CDC DASH, shifted.”
Additionally, the original funding acknowledgment in the Authors’ Note did not accurately state that the funding supported the printing and open access dissemination of the article; the revised funding acknowledgment below has been corrected for the online and print versions.
This article is part of a special School Health Collection developed under the guidance of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). SOPHE received funding from the CDC School Health Branch in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (Grant number 6 NU38OT000315-01-01) to support printing and open access dissemination. No federal funds were used in the development of these manuscripts and the views and findings expressed in them are those of the authors and are not meant to imply endorsement or reflect the views and policies of the U.S. Government.
