Implementing health-promoting programmes for the most excluded and at-risk social groups forms a key part of any efforts to address underserved populations and reduce health inequalities in society. However, many at-risk children, particularly children in deaf communities, are not reached, or are poorly served, by health-promoting programmes within the school setting. This is so because schools...

The Female Secondary School Stipend Project in Bangladesh was established to increase the enrollment of girls in secondary schools, thereby delaying marriage and childbearing. This analysis examined the existing data using the social exclusion framework to clarify the primary exclusionary factors that have kept girls from education: harassment, poverty, and the primacy of marriage and childbirt...

The purpose of this study is to produce empirical evidence of psychometric properties of a survey questionnaire, the Malaysian Secondary School Students’ Leadership Scale (M3SLS) Version 2. The scale was analysed by using Rasch Model. The questionnaire was administered on 2340 students from 26 government schools in four main divisions of Sabah, Malaysia. The results showed that secondary dimens...

Little is known about kindergarten students' active school transportation (AST) and stroller/wagon use as sedentary travel devices. The primary objective of this cross-sectional study was to determine the prevalence of kindergarten children arriving to school by active and sedentary modes, including strollers, in Toronto elementary schools and compare to students in kindergarten to grade 6 (K-6...

The present study was conducted on 200 secondary school students to find out the study habits of the students studying in government and private schools as well as students belonging from nuclear and joint family. Study habit inventory (Hindi version) constructed by Dr. B.V.Patel (1975) was used to collect the relevant data. Mean, S.D.and t-test was used to analyse the data. The finding reveale...

This study evaluates the perceptions of teachers in charge of coordinating health education in schools: the School Health Coordinators (SHCs). It addresses the success and barriers of the development and implementation regarding the first year of healthy eating programmes in their schools. This research is based on 16 face-to-face semi-structured interviews with SHCs from Portuguese public scho...

This study explores the relevance of health literacy, and its development through a health curriculum, as a necessary but insufficient component to facilitate healthy living among adolescents through comprehensive school health models. This paper presents qualitative findings from focus groups with students (N = 33) in four schools toward the end of their experience in a health class that focus...