This study aimed to explore the challenges of school committees (SC) associated with participating in governance, especially elementary schools. SCs have a strategic role advancing education at level and for accountability implementation programs activities. However, not all been able carry out their as partners development primary governance. used qualitative approach which researchers collect...

Quality of life (QOL) factors have become an area of emphasis for health care and particularly for optometry. The College of Optometrists in Vision Development designed a 30-item checklist (COVDQOL-30). This was later reduced to 19 items (COVD-QOL-19). The two instruments have been shown to have good testretest reliabilities and both have been demonstrated to have validity. The reliability of b...

Hearing impairment substantially affects child's ability to normally acquire the spoken language. Such negative effects create problems for the child not only in terms of communication but also in terms of achievement in school as well as social and emotional growth. The aim of this research is to study the prevalence of hearing disorders and its relationship to age and gender among primary sch...

BACKGROUND Novel objective tests of risk factors for amblyopia offer an alternative for preschool vision screening. We compared the merits of photoscreening versus portable patched acuity testing in elementary schools. Photoscreening may outperform routine acuity testing in pediatric offices; however, both have fairly good validity when performed by specialists in preschool vision screening. ...

In the United States, school violence is an issue of national concern. Many schools have responded to the problem by implementing prevention strategies that are, in general, of limited or unknown efficacy. Therefore, it is imperative that school officials be aware of efficacious school-based secondary violence prevention programs for at-risk youth, in order to select and implement a program tha...

background: hepatitis a, an acute viral disease is the most common global cause of viral hepatitis that affects millions of people annually. due to its high incidence, hepatitis a is considered a worldwide health problem. this study aims to determine the knowledge, risk perceptions, and behavioral intentions for hepatitis a among elementary school teachers in yazd city. â  materials and methods...

BACKGROUND Students' health and future health of the community are related to providing health care in schools and since in every society, different contextual factors affect this matter, the present study aims to recognize the factors influencing the health care elementary students are provided with. METHODS This qualitative content analysis was performed in 2014 in Isfahan. This study was c...

introduction: decayed teeth are one of the diseases of civilization. intraoral factors which interact with the others such as heredity, cultural and social factors are involved in the initiation of the disease. among social factors, health care is particularly important. the aim of the present study was to evaluate dmft, dmft and gingivitis in the first-year students of elementary, guidance and...

The Status of Curriculum Planning in the Iranian Educational System A. R. Sharifi To assess the status of curriculum planning in the Iranian educational system, a sample of 35 elementary school curriculum experts, willing to cooperate, was given a questionnaire containing ten indices of quality for the elementary school curriculum, with a reliability of 0.81. The analysis of the colle...