Communication to promote health behaviour in diverse settings
has increasingly become essential due to the growing number of
global health crises. Education institutions, as settings, appear to
be unlikely locations for promoting health, despite that education
goals are intrinsically enabled through good health. Universities
are now considered an important setting for health and its
promotion to achieve education and health goals. However, these
practices are uncommon in sub-Saharan African countries, where
health-promoting universities have been slow to emerge and to
adopt significant health promotion values. A qualitative study
involving primary and secondary sources of data was conducted,
which revealed several barriers that constrain the implementation
of health education and promotion within university settings in
Uganda. These challenges were mostly institutional and require
a shift in policies and practice for the education sector to fully
embrace health promotion and communication in university functions, routines
and processes.
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