The role of health educators in mitigating health risk from increasing screen time in schools and at home

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The role of health educators in mitigating health risk from increasing screen time in schools and at home

Contemporary health educators in schools are responsible for promoting the health of individual students, as well as a healthy school environment. The ongoing push for increasing device use in schools, which is underpinned by the information and communications technology (ICT) capability requirement...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Merga, Margaret, Williams, R.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Routledge 2016
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/67397

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