Helga Bjørnøy Urke
Associate Professor
- E-mailHelga.Urke@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 32 30
- Visitor AddressAlrek helseklynge, Årstadveien 175009 Bergen
- Postal AddressPostboks 78075020 Bergen
- Social inequality in mental health
- The school as setting for health promotion
- Physically active learning
- Psychosocial learning environments and drop-out in upper secondary school
- Positive Youth Development
- Social factors associated with infant and child nutritional status and health in the Global South
- Food security and child health in the Global South
- Intimate Partner Violence and child health
- Nurturing child care and Early child development
- Global health
- Public health
- Prevention and health promotion
- Quantitative methods
Academic article
- (2023). The effect of teacher, parental, and peer support on later grade point average: The mediating roles of self-beliefs. Psychology in the Schools.
- (2023). Academic Stress, Academic Self-efficacy, and Psychological Distress: A Moderated Mediation of Within-person Effects. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
- (2022). Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: Moderating a Random Intercept Cross-lagged Panel Model of Loneliness and Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.
- (2021). The Within-Person Effect of Psychological Distress on Social Self-Efficacy: A Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model . Journal of Research on Adolescence.
- (2021). Positive Youth Development and Mental Well-Being in Late Adolescence: The Role of Body Appreciation. Findings From a Prospective Study in Norway. Frontiers in Psychology.
- (2019). Promoting Mental Health and Preventing Loneliness in Upper Secondary School in Norway: Effects of a Randomized Controlled Trial. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research.
- (2019). Mental well-being among students in Norwegian upper secondary schools: the role of teacher support and class belonging. Norsk Epidemiologi. 49-58.
- (2019). Indicators of positive youth development can be maladaptive: The example case of caring. Journal of Adolescence. 1-9.
- (2018). The influence of maternal and household resources, and parental psychosocial child stimulation on early childhood development: A cross-sectional study of children 36-59 months in Honduras. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 1-10.
- (2018). Resources for nurturing childcare practices in urban and rural settings: Findings from the Colombia 2010 Demographic and Health Survey. Child: Care, Health and Development. 572-582.
- (2018). COMPLETE - a school-based intervention project to increase completion of upper secondary school in Norway: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. BMC Public Health. 1-12.
- (2017). Household food security and adequacy of child diet in the food insecure region north in Ghana. PLOS ONE.
- (2016). High school physical education: What contributes to the experience of flow? European Physical Education Review. 355-371.
- (2015). Associations between intimate partner violence, childcare practices and infant health: Findings from Demographic and Health Surveys in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru. BMC Public Health.
- (2014). Validity of a single item food security questionnaire in Arctic Canada. Pediatrics. e1616-e1623.
- (2014). Trends in stunting and overweight in Peruvian pre-schoolers form 1991 to 2011: findings from the Demographic and Health Surveys. Public Health Nutrition.
- (2014). Reliability of demographic and socioeconomic variables in predicting early initiation of breastfeeding: A replication analysis using the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey data. BMJ Open.
- (2013). Child diet and healthy growth in the context of rural poverty in the Peruvian Andes: What influences primary caregivers' opportunities and choices? Global Health Promotion. 5-13.
- (2011). Socioeconomic status and chronic child malnutrition: wealth and maternal education matter more in the Peruvian Andes than nationally. Nutrition Research. 741-747.
Report
- (2020). Kan systematisk arbeid med det psykososiale miljøet bidra til bedre gjennomføring i videregående opplæring ? .
- (2019). Andre delrapport fra COMPLETE-prosjektet - Kortversjon. .
- (2017). Delrapport fra Complete-prosjektet. -. -. .
Academic lecture
- (2022). The within-person relationship of school climate and mental wellbeing in adolescence.
- (2022). The developmental dynamics of academic self-efficacy, initiative, and grade point average: A parallel process latent growth curve model.
- (2022). Preliminary findings from a co-created PAL diary study.
- (2016). Socio-economic conditions and childcare in Colombia: an urban-rural comparison.
- (2016). HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY AND CHILD DIET IN NORTHERN GHANA: EVIDENCE FROM THE 2012 GHANA FEED THE FUTURE POPULATION BASELINE SURVEY DATA.
- (2012). Socioeconomic status and Chronic Child Malnutrition: wealth and maternal education matter more in the Peruvian Andes than nationally.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
- (2021). Arts and Health Promotion. Tools and Bridges for Practice, Research, and Social Transformation. Springer Publishing Company.
Academic monograph
- (2011). Klasseleiing og IKT i vidaregåande opplæring. "Ei evaluering av LanSchool og klasseleiing i teknologitette klasserom".
Doctoral dissertation
- (2017). Child health and child care of very young children in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
- (2022). Doing Collaborative Health Promotion Research in a Complex Setting: Lessons Learned from the COMPLETE Project in Norway. 14 pages.
- (2020). Social Justice for Children and Young People in Norway. 13 pages.
Poster
- (2010). Social determinants of health in poor ruralities in Peru.
Academic literature review
- (2016). Changes in optimal childcare practices in Kenya: Insights from the 2003, 2008-9 and 2014 demographic and health surveys. PLOS ONE.
- (2014). Influence of childcare practices on nutritional status of Ghanaian children: A regression analysis of the Ghana Demographic and Health Surveys. BMJ Open. 10 pages.
Chapter
- (2022). Specific resistance resources in the salutogenic model of health. 107-114. In:
- (2022). The Handbook of Salutogenesis Second Edition. Springer Nature.
- (2022). Innovative Pedagogies in a Health Promotion Specialisation: Knowledge, Practice and Research. 239-255. In:
- (2022). International Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Health Promotion. Practices and Reflections from Around the World. Springer.
- (2022). Extending Student-Active Learning into Effective Practice in Global Development-Related Health Promotion. 150-166. In:
- (2022). International Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Health Promotion. Practices and Reflections from Around the World. Springer.
- (2021). Exploring the Potential for the Arts to Promote Health and Social Justice. . In:
- (2021). Arts and Health Promotion. Tools and Bridges for Practice, Research, and Social Transformation. Springer Publishing Company.
- (2021). Arts, Health Promotion, and Social Justice: Synergy in Motion. 345-356. In:
- (2021). Arts and Health Promotion. Tools and Bridges for Practice, Research, and Social Transformation. Springer Publishing Company.
- (2021). Art and Innovation at International Health Promotion Conferences. 329-344. In:
- (2021). Arts and Health Promotion. Tools and Bridges for Practice, Research, and Social Transformation. Springer Publishing Company.
- (2016). Specific Resistance Resources in the Salutogenic Model of Health. 71-76. In:
- (2016). Handbook of Salutogenesis. Springer.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
LONGTRENDS: Social inequality in adolescent mental health in a lifecourse perspective.
COMPLETE: Good psychosocial learning environments improve completion of upper secondary school. A randomized controlled trial in Norwegian upper secondary schools.
PhD project: Social and behavioural factors associated with child care, health and development in the Global South in collaboration with the research group MC Venues at the Department of Health Promotion and Development.