Guest editorial: Health education's response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Global challenges and future directions

Abstract

The paper presents findings from focus groups and personal reflections with pre-service teachers majoring in health and physical education who were required to adapt a four-week high school health education unit for online delivery. In their article entitled “Online argumentation-based learning aided by digital concept mapping during COVID-19: Implications for health management teaching and learning,” Alt and Naamati-Schneider draw upon a management of health service organization case study to describe how traditional lecture-based activities for undergraduate students were transformed into argumentation-based learning activities during the COVID-19 lockdown. Analyzing undergraduate student responses to a digital concept mapping exercise, the authors argue that combining constructivist teaching tools with advanced technology can improve the development of lifelong learning capabilities of students. Ucuk and Yildirim's paper, “The effect of COVID-19 prevention methods training given through distance learning on state anxiety level: the case of private sector,” explores the impact of COVID-19 prevention training on the anxiety levels of workers in a communication sector company in Turkey.