The aim of the research project is to describe and understand the participating actors experiences of health promotion approaches to promote children s and young people s health health, as well as a common agenda to increase health literacy and contribute to health equity in Norrbotten. The participants in the research project comes from Norrbotten and are students in grades 4, 7 and 9 and grade 1 in high school, young people outside the school and the labor market, school leaders, teachers, student health personnel and other actors such as the employment services, social services and child and adolescent psychiatry. Quantitative and qualitative methods such as surveys, focus groups, individual interviews and workshops are used to answer the following research questions:
I) How do professionals, children and young people experience the health dialogue, and what are their thoughts on how to promote health literacy and contribute to health equity?
II) How can learning and health be described and understood from a health education perspective and an educational practice?
III) How can a common agenda to promote children s and young people s health be outlined from the perspectives of professionals, children and young people?
IV) How does participating actors create and perceive health promotion approaches and health promoting organizations in order to collaborate on children's and young people's health issues?