The purpose of this study was to investigate effect of nutrition education at worksite program in male workers. The subjects were 75 male workers who had received nutrition education by a clinical dietitian for 4 months. The anthropometric data, blood pressure and biochemical blood indices were measured before and after nutrition education. Dietary habits and lifestyle were investigated by self...

In this piece of work we intend to widen the already existent empirical evidence on the relation between education, income and satisfaction. We explore satisfaction measures that take into account both job satisfaction and some aspects of overall satisfaction with life. In order to do so we create a synthetic satisfaction index and we estimate the link between education and satisfaction taking ...

This is the first study to systematically analyze whether the association between parental education and family dissolution varies cross-nationally and over time. The authors use meta-analytic tools to study cross-national variation between 17 countries with data from the Generations and Gender Study and Harmonized Histories. The association shows considerable cross-national variation, but is p...

This paper analyzes recent household survey data from Gansu, a less developed province in Northwest China, to examine school attainment in a poor rural area of China. Censored ordered probit regressions are used to estimate the determinants of years of schooling. Child nutritional status, as measured by height-for-age Zscores, and household income have positive effects on completed years of sch...

The aim of this study was to assess attitude towards euthanasia, and the influence of socio-demographic data and death education carried out through the "Rijeka model" of bioethics education for the first-year medical students of the School of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Croatia. The cross-sectional study was conducted in the academic year 20031 2004. 124 (61% female) participants were surv...

Distance education is becoming ever more important in providing continuing post basic, and especially postgraduate, education to practising professional persons, including nurses. As more and more institutions in the Republic of South Africa offer distance education courses to nurses, it is essential to take note of the positive and negative experiences of successful graduates of these programm...

Positive education focuses on helping students not only achieve academically, but also to thrive. This workshop will consider what well-being and flourishing is and how well-being science applies to education. Core constructs and positive interventions that can be used with individuals, groups, and organizations to build well-being and resilience will be explored. Specific activities that can b...

accidents allocate more than 30 percent causes of mortality and are the most common reason of mortality in children after one year old. thus, in order to provide children health, education of road safety is essential and children should be more aware about road safety necessities and learn  the methods of life maintenance proportionate with own age and needs. there is a significant note that ed...

Brain based teaching and learning strategies have been presenting themselves at an increasing rate within our school systems. Educators need to focus on at-risk and special education students and identify strategies that are effective with these populations. Two African American special education students attending school at an urban school within the Rochester City School District participated...