Editorial

I am delighted to announce this years’ winner of the Pittu Laungani Best Paper Award for the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education is from Ana Almeida and Peter Davey for ‘Integrating health promotion into sustainable development goal 11: major challenges and learned lessons from Healthy Municipalities, Cities and Communities (HMC) in Brazil’. In addition, there are two papers for a new ‘Highly Recommended’ category: Alrimawi et al.’s paper ‘Palestinian mothers’ home-safety practices for preventing injuries to their young children: multiple case study approach’ and Abercromby et al.’s paper ‘Go hard or go home: exploring young people’s knowledge attitudes and behaviours of alcohol use and water safety in Western Australia using the Health Belief Model’.

Four interesting articles in this issue offer a rich selection for those working in health promotion and education. First, Kim and Wang’s paper sets out new insights into the planning of campaign measures to discourage the risky behaviour of texting while driving in the United States, from their exploratory study on the use of legal and social sanctions. The second paper by Paudel et al. focuses on visual impairment in Vietnam. Their study investigated the effects of a community eye health education intervention for health literacy in adults. The results showed that the intervention significantly increased awareness and knowledge of cataract and red eye prevention measures in the intervention community compared to the control community. Opportunities for healthier eating in a southern university campus in the United States are explored using the Social Ecological Model in the third paper by Mann et al. and offers some campus-wide solutions to foster a healthier food environment. In the final paper of this issue, Bami et al. investigate the prevalence rate of substance use and its risk and protective factors among adolescents in Bam County, Kerman province in the southeast of Iran.

In this issue, we welcome three new members of the international Advisory Board (IAB): Dr Sami Kokko, an Associate Professor in Health Promotion at the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences and Director of the Research Centre for Health Promotion (RCHP) at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland; Dr Anam Nyembezi, a Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, teaching Health Promotion for Public Health modules; and Dr Emma Wilson is an Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of Nottingham and the Director for the Master of Public Health and Master of Global Health programmes. Our new IAB members are respected international academics and are integral to the strategic development and direction of the Journal.

I hope that you enjoy reading the papers in this issue and I encourage you to continue to submit contributions to the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education which celebrates rigorous peer review and a broad and far-reaching global audience.