BACKGROUND Compliance is a critical issue for parental questionnaires in school based epidemiological surveys and high compliance is difficult to achieve. The objective of this study was to determine trends and factors associated with parental questionnaire compliance during respiratory health surveys of school children in Merseyside between 1991 and 2006. METHODS Four cross-sectional respira...

OBJECTIVES The rate of obesity and associated risk factors in Canadian youth is increasing at an alarming rate. Nutrition plays an important role in weight maintenance. This study reports the effectiveness of Action Schools! BC---Healthy Eating, a school-based fruit and vegetable (FV) intervention, in effecting change in: 1) students' intake of FV, 2) students' knowledge, attitudes and percepti...

BACKGROUND The Alberta Project Promoting active Living and healthy Eating in Schools (APPLE Schools) has been recognized as a "best practice" in preventing childhood obesity. To inform decision making on the economic implications of APPLE Schools and to justify investment, we evaluated the project's cost-effectiveness following a life-course approach. METHODS We developed a state transition m...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Environmental economics Ecological economics Economic sociology of the environment Regulation theory Social movement theory Environmental policy Ecological modernisation The vast majority of approaches in environmental economics attribute the current ecological crisis to the fact that, from its inception, the industrial economic system was founded on premises tha...

The under-representation of women in information and communication technology (ICT) fields of study and occupations has attracted considerable attention of researchers in higher education. This paper discusses findings of a preliminary investigation aimed to investigate further study and career preferences of female students in one of Melbourne’s all-female secondary schools and determine facto...

Children’s development is influenced by many contexts and institutional settings, including families, schools, childcare centres, churches, and ethnic community groups. Positive development is more likely when the social systems that help shape these settings work in a manner that enriches children’s environments and their access to resources. The capacity to work across contexts and maintain i...

Aiming at shortcomings in the current system of practice teaching in high schools especially in regional high schools, a system of practice teaching that fit current cultivation of practical and innovative talents is explored in education. In accordance with the progressive regularity of ability cultivation, the system of practice teaching is divided into four levels: basic practice, basic expe...

In examining recruitment and retention of teachers in rural areas, David Monk begins by noting the numerous possible characteristics of rural communities--small size, sparse settlement, distance from population concentrations, and an economic reliance on agricultural industries that are increasingly using seasonal and immigrant workers to minimize labor costs. Many, though not all, rural areas,...

If public schools respond more to immigrants by re-allocating budgets towards their needs than private schools do, increase in immigration will increase the public school attendance of immigrants and decrease that of natives. Using the 2001 Australian Census data, this paper confirms that possibility by showing that private school attendance among native-born Australians is higher in localities...

After beginning with a brief introduction of the state of the legal skills training in contemporary Chinese law schools, this paper analyzes the slow development of legal skills training in China from the following perspectives: the rational choice of relevant actors in legal skill training, the impact of traditional institutionalization of knowledge, and most importantly, the lack of sufficien...