OBJECTIVES A community intervention trial was carried out to evaluate the relative effectiveness of two methods of reducing playground hazards in schools. The study hypotheses were: (1) a health promotion programme addressing barriers to implementing the New Zealand Playground Safety Standard will reduce playground hazards and (2) the intervention programme will be more successful than providin...

School closure is an important component of U.S. pandemic flu mitigation strategy, but has important costs. We give estimates of both the direct economic and health care impacts for school closure durations of 2, 4, 6, and 12 weeks under a range of assumptions. We find that closing all schools in the U.S. for four weeks could cost between $10 and $47 billion dollars (0.1-0.3% of GDP) and lead t...

To be eligible to apply for the Bryant Scholars Pre-admission Program, students must be full-time students at participating institutions, be Missouri residents who attended a rural high school as defined by the National Center for Education Statistics (go to http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/ to look up high school. High schools with locale codes of 31, 32, 33, 41, 42, and 43 are considered r...

At the end of this century medica! care system throughout the world are facing major crises and undergoing major reformo All system and health care providers are realizing that there is not enough money anywhere in lhe world to pay for all the new medical techno!ogy. The USA spends approximate!y 1,250 billion US$ annually in medica! care, whereas developing countries such as Brazil, which try t...

This cross-sectional study aimed to assess the influence of race/ethnicity on Brazilian children' oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL). A multistage random sampling selected a representative sample of 1,134 twelve-years-old children from public schools of Santa Maria, a city in Southern Brazil. Participants were examined by 4 calibrated clinicians (minimum Kappa-value for inter-examiner...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a school-based intervention program for middle school adolescent girls with depression. METHODS The study was a pretest-posttest repeated-measure design with a nonequivalent control group. Fifty eight students with depressive symptoms were recruited from two middle schools in Seoul, Korea. The data were collected from the interv...

V. Simovska and Patricia Mannix-McNamara (eds.), Schools for Health and Sustainability: Theory, Research and Practice, DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9171-7_18, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 Abstract The development of suitable approaches for evaluating health promotion in schools to produce useful evidence to enhance sustainability and transferability is still a major topic of discu...

BACKGROUND Despite the importance of student health and school hygiene as an aspect of the infrastructure of community health, few feasibility studies have been conducted on school health programs in developing countries. This study examined possible barriers to and challenges of such programs from the executive perspective in East Azerbaijan Province in Iran. METHODS This qualitative study u...

Background Recent studies showed that poor personal hygiene practices play a major role in the increment of communicable disease burden in developing countries. In Ethiopia, 60% of the disease burden is related to poor sanitation practices. This school based study was aimed to assess the effectiveness of school-friendly and peer-led approach in improving personal hygiene practices of school ado...

In the 1975 to 1976 school year, under the auspices of the Health Authorities of the Latium Region, the Rome Microcythaemia Centre carried out for the first time a partial screening survey of thalassaemia carriers among the students of the compulsory intermediate school in Latium. This work was the beginning of a new preventive school health service aimed at the prophylaxis of Cooley's disease....