Although many of the participants recognised the health risks of obesity, they were unaware of the extent of its impact on knee pain and disability and wanted to spread this knowledge to their workplace, peer groups and social networks.
Common themes emerged around a culture of drinking in the workplace, peer pressure from colleagues to drink, use of alcohol as remuneration, consuming non-beverage alcohols, Russian-specific drinking patterns, attitudes to treatment, and passive attitudes towards health and drinking.
Challenge, a novel country-wide, workplace-based, peer-led weight management programme with participants from a range of private and public organisations in Northern Ireland.
Workplace-based peer assessment is widely used and is known to be a reliable technique in order to provide feedback and guide performance.
Jewkes and Abrahams (2002) reported in their review an incidence of 2,070 incidents per 100,000 women per year, with coerced forms of sex being a common problem in schools, workplaces, and among peers.
Managers, peers and workplace culture were the most common sources of bullying.
The background to me sharing this with you now is that I was recently leading a meeting where a participant was complaining about an absent peer's workplace behavior.
At an environmental level, workplace or school related peer-pressure and broader contextual factors such as cultural norms or policies also affect condom use.
For youth and teachers alike, the skills gained by participating in Connecting Classrooms have been applicable in the classroom and the workplace, in advocacy and peer education, and other forms of community engagement.
Inattention problems often lead to inability to complete independent academic work, resulting in underachievement at school, during study and in the workplace compared to their peer group with equivalent cognitive ability.
