OBJECTIVE To examine the relations between educational attainment and health (cigarette smoking and perceived health) in Hispanic adolescents. METHOD Participants included 3,360 Mexican American and non-Hispanic white adolescents ranging in age from 12 to 21 years. The sample included school dropouts, academically at-risk students, and control students. RESULTS School dropouts were 6.46 tim...

The dropout problem has recently been the focus of considerable concern and the subject of much re search. Nevertheless, the lack of a careful and systematic assess ment of the consequences of dropping out still exists. The pur pose of the present study was to examine the personal, social, and economic consequences of dropping out of school. The High School and Beyond (HS&B) data base was used ...

Dropout is a phenomenon that unfortunately occurring worldwide and of increasing concern to authorities. It reality quality indicators in many models are affected by the number students who drop out school at higher levels. However, this not only reflected educational level, but also affects social personal development young people. The analysis dropout among Spaniards topic interest due reperc...

In " Reframing School Dropout as a Public Health Issue " (1), Freudenberg and Ruglis make a succinct, yet compelling , case. Arguably, reducing racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in educational achievement (including disparities related to graduating from high school by age 18 years) is key to reducing not only disparities in adult incarceration and socioeconomic position but also to...

OBJECTIVES No data exists for nutritional status of female adolescent school dropouts despite one in seven adolescent girls in Sri Lanka being an early school leaver. The aim of this study was to assess the nutritional status of working and non-working female adolescent school dropouts. METHODS A cross-sectional design was used to recruit 613 female adolescent school dropouts, aged 15-19 year...