The few remarks I purpose making this evening are concerned with the health of children at public and private boarding and day schools, and are in no way applicable to elementary or State-supported schools. In one way the latter class of school has a great advantage, inasmuch as they are subject to periodic medical inspection either by the medical officers of the Local Government Board, or by t...

Despite years of research and debate, household choice between public and private schools is not well understood. This article investigates factors associated with parental choice between public and private schools using unique census-based school enrollment data for school districts in South Carolina and for neighborhoods in the Columbia Metropolitan Area. This study extends the existing liter...

statistical analysis, results and discussion sections were modified to clarify these aspects. ABTEILUNG FÜR INFEKTIONSUND TROPENMEDIZIN, KLINIKUM DER LMU Institut u. Poliklinik für Arbeits-, Sozialund Umweltmedizin, Klinikum der LMU (ii) The authors categorized type of school (private versus urban). However, as already pointed out in the text there are no private schools in rural areas. In Tabl...

OBJECTIVE To compare the knowledge of contraceptive methods as well as to identify factors associated with adequate knowledge among public and private school adolescents. METHODS A cross-sectional study comprising 1,594 adolescents aged between 12 and 19 years old from 13 public and five private schools in the city of São Paulo city, Brazil, was carried out from June to December 2003. Schools...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Neonatal resuscitation should be part of medical school curriculums. We aimed to evaluate medical school graduates' knowledge of neonatal resuscitation. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross-sectional study on the performance of candidates sitting a medical residency exam at Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, in 2004. METHODS ...

INTRODUCTION The high prevalence of hypertension in high school students in Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil, has already been described. In this study, within a new sample of high school students from public and private schools, we evaluated if socioeconomic and lifestyle influence on blood pressure values. METHODS This is an epidemiological study, which is part of the activities of a community-b...

One of the many changes in India since economic liberalisation began in 1991 is the increased use of private schooling. There has been a growing body of literature to assess whether this is a positive trend and to evaluate the effects on child achievement levels. The challenge is to identify the true private school effect on achievement, isolating the effect of the schools themselves from other...

This paper provides the first combined theoretical and empirical analysis of the impact of private school entry on private schools’ strategic choices of quality, addressing the concern that school competition can harm poorer students. I develop a model where schools select their quality when (1) the match between a school and a student affects test scores, and (2) wealthier students’ enrollment...

If public schools respond more to immigrants by re-allocating budgets towards their needs than private schools do, increase in immigration will increase the public school attendance of immigrants and decrease that of natives. Using the 2001 Australian Census data, this paper confirms that possibility by showing that private school attendance among native-born Australians is higher in localities...

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