The aim of this paper was to assess the caries experience of 12- and 15-year-old schoolchildren from public and private schools in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, and to identify the access of children to dental services and the coverage of such services, which might be related to differences between the groups. Cross-sectional data were obtained from 3,313 clinical exams, which followed the WHO (1997...

ABSTRACT The objective of this research is to identify the social representations teachers about public and private schools. Questionnaires with closed open questions were applied 87 who work in formal education institutions metropolitan region São Paulo. Data analyzed support Descending Hierarchical Classification. results pointed representational elements regarding school lack commitment pare...

background and purpose: schools are the most appropriate and reliable places for training and educating students. if health principles are not observed in schools, students will be prone to different kinds of health problems. thus the aim of this research is to study the environmental indices in primary schools in the behshahr city in 2012. materials and methods: this is a cross sectional descr...

For-profit schooling is one of the most hotly debated issues in education policy discussions in Chile. Proponents argue that for-profit schools have incentives to reduce costs and to innovate, leading to both higher quality and greater efficiency in education. Critics maintain that for-profit schools cannot be trusted to place the interest of children over profitability. Buried in this position...

We present a nonparametric approach for the equity and e¢ ciency evaluation of (private and public) primary schools in Flanders. First, we use a nonparametric (Data Envelopment Analysis) model that is specially tailored to assess educational e¢ ciency at the pupil level. The model accounts for the fact that minimal prior structure is typically available for the behavior (objectives and feasibil...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Psychosocial stressors leading to allostatic load need to be explored further as these have great scope for early intervention. Stress studies done in India are mostly based on sources of stress and objective measures of stress. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to assess stress appraisal among students (16-17 yr) and to identify institution-specific diff...

Factors Affecting Public-Private Sector's Support for the Elementary Schools M.H. Hassani Shalmaani, Ph.D. Factors affecting the public-private sector's support for elementary education were identified perusing related legislations, documents, and programs. To validate these factors a sample of 432 elementary school principals was given the list of factors of which 8 were confirme...