BACKGROUND Despite long-standing recommendations to vaccinate children who have underlying chronic medical conditions or who are contacts of high-risk persons, vaccination coverage among school-age children remains low. Community studies have indicated that school-age children have the highest incidence of influenza and are an important source of amplifying and sustaining community transmission...

background: malnutrition among tribal preschool children is highly prevalent in almost all states of india and is the predisposing factor for morbidity as well as mortality. objectives: aim of the study was to detect prevalence of malnutrition and their associated factors. study design: a cross sectional study. study subjects: lodha tribal children aged 1-5 years. sample size: a total of 141 ch...

conclusions the results suggest that massage reduced hospitalization anxiety, pr, and bp. therefore, we propose that nurses can use massage to reduce anxiety in school-age children in hospital. this method has no side-effects and is easily applicable. background the outcomes of hospitalization anxiety are mental health disorders. one of the methods of anxiety reduction is massage, which can cau...

background : the excessive changes in serum of lipids, lipoproteins and apolipproteins can be considered as strong risk factors for cardiovascular diseases.in particularlipoproteins can determine the risk of cardiovascular illnesses in teenyears (before showing clinical symptoms).studies have shown that the serum level of ldl c -hdl c is a function of the productionamount of apoa 1 and apob 100...

A survey ofa total of 1,157 Indian primary school children from eight schools from urbanand ruralareas in and around Kuala Lumpur showed an overall prevalence of infection with soil-transmitted helminthiasis of 89.02%. The prevalence and intensity of infection were consistently high among both school boys and girls throughout the six years of primary school. The predominant helminth was Trichur...

The objective of this research is determining the effectiveness of philosophy education on metacognitive beliefs among high school students. The objective of the research is applied and the method of data gathering is semi-experimental, pre-test and post-test with control group. Statistical population includes high school students in district 3 of Tehran in the first mid-term of educational yea...

background: reference charts are widely used in healthcare as a screening tool. this study aimed to produce reference growth charts for school children from west malaysia in comparison with the united states centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) chart. methods: a total of 14,360 school children ranging from 7 to 17 years old from six states in west malaysia were collected. a two-stag...

background: lead still remains an important problem for poor, inner-city, ethnic minority children, with a particular emphasis on lead paint and dust. in egypt, there is no national survey about the prevalence of elevated blood lead level among children. objective: to assess the environmental lead level as well as to determine blood lead level among primary school children and find out its rela...