a survey on the detection of scalp ringworm, its prevalence and etiological agents, was carried out in 12 different localities in the bandar abbas area, southern iran, in february 1970. two thousand one hundred fifty-three subjects consisting of 1,275 school children from 3 primary schools and one secondary school in the town and 689 rural school children from 6 different villages, together wit...

background: functional constipation (fc) is one of the important digestive disorders in pediatrics. its prevalence varies in different communities. the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of fc in our area between the school children and the impact of school on it. methods: this study was done on 4 to 12 years old children of nine schools and kindergartens of amirkola, (2007)....

PURPOSE In this study, the authors investigated sentence comprehension and spatial working memory abilities in a sample of internationally adopted, postinstitutionalized (PI) children. The authors compared the performance of these PI children with that of an age-matched group of children living with their birth families. They hypothesized that PI children would perform below clinical threshold ...

CONTENTS Executive Summary 4 Introduction 11 Background 13 Children's health in England 13 Current service provision 27 Methods 29 Research design 29 Collection of data 30 Results 33 Locality A 33 Needs profile 33 The local school environment 33 Focus groups 35 Locality B 42 Needs profile 42 The local school environment 42 Focus groups 45 Locality C 48 Needs profile 48 The local school environm...