PAAKKARI, LEENA

Leena Paakkari is a senior lecturer in health education teacher training within the Faculty of Sport and Health sciences at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her research interests relate to school subject health education, health education teacher training, health literacy as a learning outcome in schools, and ethical aspects in developing health literacy among the pupils. Also, she is a researcher in Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) –study. Currently, she is involved in assessing health literacy among the secondary school-aged children, and supervising PhD students in this topic.