Health Promotion Staff, Michal Molcho

Michal Molcho BA, MA, PhD [E-Mail]

Lecturer

Profile

Michal Molcho is a Lecturer in Health Promotion and the coordinator of the Health Promotion Postgraduate programme in Dublin. She has an undergraduate degree in Criminology and a postgraduate degree in Sociology from Bar Ilan University, Israel. Michal is Deputy PI of the Irish Health Behaviour in School Aged Children (HBSC) study and a member of the Survey of Lifestyle and Nutrition (SLÁN) consortium.

For further detail on the HBSC project see: www.nuigalway.ie/hbsc

Teaching Interests

• Quantitative research methods
• Social determinants of health
• Injury prevention
• Sociology of health and illness
• Children’s studies

Research Interests

• Adolescents' health
• Youth violent behaviour
• Injury prevention 
• Immigrant’s health
• Food poverty

Professional Activities   

• Member of World Health Organisation collaborative study, the Health Behaviours of school-aged children (HBSC) (since 1996). Chair of the Violence and Injury  working group, member of the Methodology Development Group, the Scientific Development Group and Member of the study Protocol Preparation Group for the 2010/11 survey
• Member of the scientific committee for the “Researching Children’s Worlds   conference (February 2008).
• Member of the Irish National Committee on Children Research
• Member of the Irish Steering Committee of the Child Safety Alliance

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de Looze, M., Pickett, W., Raaijmakers, Q., Kuntsche, E., Hublet, A., Nic Gabhainn, S., Bjarnason, T., Molcho, M., Vollebergh, W. & ter Bogt, T. (2012). Early Risk Behaviours and Adolescent Injury in 25 European and North American Countries: A Cross-National Consistent Relationship. Journal of Early Adolescence, 32(1), 104-125. [ download] 324KB

de Róiste, A., Kelly, C., Molcho, M., Gavin, A. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2012). Is School Participation Good for Children? Associations with Health and Wellbeing. Health Education, 112(2), 88-104. download (93KB)

Kelly, C., Gavin, A., Molcho, M. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2012). The Irish Health Behaviours in School-aged Children (HBSC) study 2010. Dublin: Department of Health. download (93KB)

de Róiste, A., Kelly, C., Molcho, M., Gavin, A. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2012). Is School Participation Good for Children? Associations with Health and Wellbeing. Health Education, 112(2), 88-104. download (93KB)

Kelly, C., Gavin, A., Molcho, M. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2012). The Irish Health Behaviours in School-aged Children (HBSC) study 2010. Dublin: Department of Health. download (93KB)

Molcho M, Pickett W. (2011). Some thoughts about acceptable’ and ’non-acceptable’ childhood injuries. Injury Prevention, 17: 147-148.

Molcho, M., Kelly, C. and Nic Gabhainn, S. (2011). Immigrant children in Ireland: health and social wellbeing of first and second generation immigrants. In M. Darmody, N. Tyrrell and S. Song (eds), The Changing Faces of Ireland: Exploring the lives of immigrant and ethnic minority children. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. Pp. 183-202.

Sentenac, M., Gavin, A., Arnaud, C., Molcho, M., Godeau, E., & Nic Gabhainn., S. (2011). Victims of Bullying Among Students With a Disability or Chronic Illness and Their Peers: A Cross-National Study Between Ireland and France. Journal of Adolescent Health, 48(5), 461-466. download (226KB)

Kelly, C., Mocho, M., Doyle, P. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2010) Psychosomatic symptoms among schoolchildren in Ireland. International Journal of Adolescent Health and Medicine, 22(2), 223-230. download (312KB)

Kelly, C., Molcho, M. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2010). Patterns of weight reduction by weight status in schoolchildren. Public Health Nutrition, 13(8), 1229-1236. download (115KB)

Molcho, M., Kelly, C. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2010). Deficits in health and well-being among immigrant children in Ireland: the explanatory role of social capital. Translocations: The Irish Migration, Race and Social Transformation Review, 6(1). download (145KB)

Molcho, M., Cristini, F., Nic Gabhainn, S., Santinello, M., Moreno, C., Gaspar de Matos, M., Bjarnson, T., Baldassari, D. & Due, P. (2010). Health and well-being among child immigrants in Europe. Eurohealth, 16(1), 20-23  

Craig, W., Harel-Fisch, Y., Fogel-Grinvald, H., Dostaler, S., Hetland, J., Simons-Morton, B., Molcho, M., Gaspar de Matos, M.,  Overpeck, M., Due, P., & Pickett P., the HBSC Violence & Injuries Prevention Focus Group & the HBSC Bullying Writing Group.   (2009). A cross-national profile of bullying and victimisation among adolescents in 40 countries. International Journal of Public Health.  54, S216-S224. download (205KB) 

Molcho, M., Craig, W., Due, P., Pickett, W., Harel-Fisch, Y., & Overpeck, M. (2009). Cross-national time trends in bullying behaviour 1994-2006: findings from Europe and North America.  International Journal of Public Health. 54, S1-S10. download (159KB)

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