Healthier, happier students.
Sometimes life feels amazing. Other times, it feels tough. Student Health Guide (SHG) is the holistic health and wellbeing resource for teens and young adults that helps make the good bits better and the hard bits easier.
Backed by medical professionals and produced by award-winning behaviour change experts, SHG is a multi-platform resource that includes print and digital media.
SHG is for schools, colleges, and universities to help develop students’ knowledge, understanding and resilience across our six core topics.
MIND | BODY | FUEL | FITNESS | SEX | LIFE
WHAT DOES SHG OFFER?
Print magazine
Student Health Guide is a high-quality magazine with a perfect bound spine. The newsstand look and feel gives it a tangible value and research shows that 99% of young people take their copy home to keep for further reading, or eventually pass to a friend or relative.
SHG has two editions - one aimed at 13-18 year olds and a university edition. Both magazines are divided into SHG’s trademark categories of mind, body, fuel, fitness, sex and life. Costs vary between 90p and £1.50 depending on volume.
Digital magazine
All our print magazines are available as digital page-turners. These can be linked to or embedded on your website or social media and offer great accessibility for students. Digital magazine packages for universities are £2,500 per year, which includes a co-branded front cover.
We are able to provide periodic, anonymised statistics on readership of digital editions, including views, dwell time and links clicked. This information helps to better understand the important topics amongst your student community.
Educator Toolkit
The Educator Toolkit is designed to help clients drive engagement with their print and digital editions of SHG to maximise value. Even once print magazines are handed to students, the digital edition licences last for a year, so there’s plenty of opportunity to generate re-engagement.
In addition, the toolkit includes over 75 social media posts in SHG house style (together with example descriptions) covering each of the topics in the magazine for use on your social channels, website or intranet.
FROM THE GP’S SURGERY
The vast majority of the teenagers I see who present minor health issues, have an underlying cause or contributory factor. For example, the effects of exam stress can be hard for young people to cope with, but treatment with better sleep, improved diet and physical exercise may be as effective as prescribing medication. Most health issues are interlinked, which is why I believe it’s so important to provide holistic information and advice about health and wellbeing.
I’m really happy to be a co-founder and advisor to SHG. Seeing the positive effects it has on the lives of our readers is very humbling and I believe it to be an invaluable resource for anyone responsible for the welfare and success of young people. Educational institutions are perfectly placed to reach every student indiscriminately and with research showing the positive effects of resilience and mood on academic performance, it’s one of the best investments a school, college or university can make.
Dr William Swallow
GP and SHG Co-Founder
EXPLORE OUR CONTENT
Both editions of SHG are produced by medical professionals with behaviour change expertise. The content is carefully researched, written and designed to help young people build their knowledge and understanding of key health issues.
We provide robust signposting for those who need to seek help and tips on how to spot warning signs in others. But more than just providing information, SHG pride’s itself on offering actionable advice that can help sow the seeds of positive behaviour change right now.
READER FEEDBACK
Gathering feedback from readers has been an extremely important part of our development, and we review all responses thoroughly. Feedback over the past 12 months shows:
100% told us they read the magazine
31% read every article
25% read most articles
25% read the articles that interested them, and
19% flicked through
71% have kept the magazine to refer back to
21% have or will pass it on to someone else, and
7% threw it away after reading it
95% of respondents said the magazine inspired them to seek help from their school, college or university either now or in the future when required.
73% said they had used the information in SHG to support another student
99% found reading the magazine helpful
We always let survey respondents enter some free text, here’s what some of them wrote:
“Hopefully you guys are planning another issue soon!”
“Great read, really surprised at how useful this little thing was. I’m going to keep a hold of it. I think the magazine should be promoted more because if everyone read it, they’d all be better off. So much is discussed and talked about that I bet many haven’t looked at. The topics vary from focusing on the self, to society, and linking the two and how you can be an active and responsible member of society. The articles are well structured and written with great pictures and graphics to match. I like the themes and different colours which are attention grabbing.”
“Please keep it going! I think it's awesome and really useful. Well done!”
“Will be seriously looking forward to magazines like this. This can be life changing for some people. This was really helpful.”
“I think it’s great, I prefer having a magazine rather than seeing the information online.”
“Thank you for this guide. They say that life doesn’t come with a manual or a user’s guide, but this magazine is darn close!”
GET STARTED WITH SHG AT YOUR UNI
Not sure how to use SHG or integrate it within your current offering? Fortunately, we’ve spent a good few years watching how dozens of settings utilise SHG to best effect. Here are three good ideas we’ve seen work well:
Handing out a copy to each new student in their Induction Pack or leaving a copy on their bedside in student accommodation.
Embedding a digital magazine with your logo onto the appropriate section of your setting’s website and sharing the page via social media to reach all students (we have a digital toolkit with plenty of assets!)
Including information about SHG in your parent communications, so they see your proactivity and can engage with their young people about the content if they wish.
There’s no one size fits all solution, but we’ve seen some amazing examples of engagement and behaviour change with SHG – across settings that use print, digital and a combination of both. If you like the idea of SHG but aren’t sure how you’d use it, then please let us know and we’ll share specific examples that might be relevant to your setting.
MAKE IT YOURS
Lots of the institutions we work with opt to customise their editions of SHG magazine (see example). Our expert teams will work with you to create a resource that reflects your brand, your student body and your budget. Customisation options include:
Bespoke front cover
Stitched or loose inserts
Bespoke pages throughout
Bespoke articles
Text and design changes
Directories of services and signposting banners
PRICING & PRINT SCHEDULE
The university edition is printed each June and ready for delivery in August or September. This means all customisation artwork must be signed off in May.PRICI
Digital magazine, including the Educator Toolkit
Schools - £299 pa
Colleges - £500 pa
Universities - £2,500 pa
Print magazines
Up to 250 copies - £1.99 per copy
Up to 750 copies - £1.50 copies
750 copies + - £1 per copy
Visit our contact page for a no-obligation chat about how SHG could improve student wellbeing at your uni, or contact Victoria on 01483 660341 or victoria@studenthealthguide.co.uk or request a quote using the button below.
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