... attention paid to children' s vision and refractions in Western China In order to obtain the refractive status in school- agechildrenin Western China, we selected Yongchuan District, Chongqing, a representative ... not differ between childrenin academically challenging schools and those in regular schools The prevalence of myopia and astigmatism among childrenin academically challenging schools, however, ... prevalence inchildren from academically challenging schools to regular schools in the same administrative area We discovered that academically challenging schools had more myopic children (32.68%)...
... National Survey of Children s Health Finds Intact Family and Religious Participation Are Associated with Fewer Developmental Problemsin SchoolAge Children By Nicholas Zill, Ph.D ... contacted about children s problemsinschoolChildren who worship at least weekly are least likely to have their parents contacted by school teachers or administrators about school- related problems ... Children Whose Parents Were Contacted by School about Children s Problems by Family Structure: U.S Children Aged 6-17, 2003 Source: National Survey of Children s Health (NSCH) 45 Percent of Children...
... parenting children with PDDs and associated intellectual impairment, only a few studies have explored the health- related quality of life (HRQL) in parents of children with AS or HFA [6] Parenting children ... explored parental attainment and well-being at mid-life in parents of children with developmental disabilities and parents of children with severe mental healthproblems The parents of children with ... restricting their social life and making changes in family routines However, parents of children with severe mental health problem were not as accommodating At a follow-up, the physical and mental health...
... but to gather and use meaningful data AS SEEN IN HEALTHY SCHOOL COMMUNITIES The school- community level process outlined in Creating a Healthy School Using the Healthy School Report Card: ASCD ... while providing resources for their schools, communicating effectively, embracing resistance, maintaining a visible presence, and building and sustaining relationships inside the school and with ... to establishing community engagement, embedding health and well-being throughout the whole school, and forming a positive school culture When the principal leads a schoolhealth initiative, subsequent...
... Haemoglobin Estimation, ESR, urine screening for sugar and albuminurea, urine routine examination, screenings for Hepatitis-B, Hepatitis-C and HIV/AIDS I had some savings from my clinic's income ... doing blood sugar testing, urine sugar testing and pregnancy tests in my clinic from my own resources; but there was an immense need to initiate the following very important tests: Blood grouping, ... magnitude of the most pressing healthproblems of women living in Shamsabad Therefore, all the women attending my clinic for any reason were questioned about their (women's) healthproblems for one month...
... neck, arm, leg pain during physical activity and headache/migraine) are scored on a four-point rating scale ranging from no complaints (0) to serious complaints (3) Each complaint is also scored ... that individual characteristics might explain the high level of distress symptoms among ambulance personnel [8-10] In general, factors within the workplace interact with those within the individual ... highly motivated to this kind of work Being female in a male-dominated working environment such as the ambulance services does not seem to be a risk factor for mental healthproblems among ambulance...
... working, studying and participating in leisure activities in mainstream settings; good family relationships; living independently; having control of one's self-care, medication and money; having ... the findings from the study with the World Health Organisation, the Departments of Health and care standard setting agencies in the participating countries including the practicalities of incorporating ... http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/9/36 face interview with the institution's manager The toolkit is refined in response to inter-rater reliability testing, feedback from interviewers and interviewees regarding its utility,...
... of healthHealth profiles are popular in situations where the interaction of the physical, social, mental and emotional determinants of health are of interest Health indices are useful inhealth ... time, in BMI and health status In addition, this study can be used as baseline information to investigate relationships between BMI, health status, intellectual ability, and performance inschool ... and HRQOL in elementary schoolchildren The impact of being overweight appears to affect both the physical and psychosocial health of children as young as years of ageIn fact, our findings suggest...
... Reducing obesity via a school- based interdisciplinary intervention among youth: Planet Health Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 1999, 153(4):409-18 58 Robinson TN: Reducing children s television viewing ... smaller, micro-interventions (e.g interrupting prolonged sedentary time), or lager macro-interventions (e.g population-based interventions and public health initiatives) Decreasing sedentary time ... diverse health indicators inchildren and youth Although efforts were made to include grey literature (e.g by contacting key informants and reviewing government documents), we did not include...
... language skills, the nature of speaking skills, the characteristics, the role of speaking in language teaching and learning, the approaches to teaching speaking and some problemsin teaching speaking ... rephrasing, improvising, discarding, avoiding, foreignizing, paraphrasing, mining of a word, and clarifyingin order to express oneself and comprehend others In short, speakers are required to incorporate ... analyzed in terms of routines, which are conventional ways of presenting information In Bygates opinion, there are two kinds of routines They are information routines and interaction ones Information...
... approaches in language teaching The origins of CLT are to be found in the changes in the British language teaching tradition dating from the late 1960s CLT has been used in language teaching with ... roles, the main principles of teaching listening and the main kinds of listening activities This chapter focuses on the theory about the main types of listening activities and teaching it in CLT Chapter ... missing information in the gaps, guessing definitions: Vinh University 16 the teacher gives students some definitions of something and students have to point out what it is, skimming and scanning:...
... sickle cell trait includes proliferation retinopathy, worsening of diabetic retinopathy, stroke, myocardial infection, leg ulcers, vascular necrosis, arthritis of the joints and increased frequency ... The association of hemoglobin S with cases of renal medullary carcinoma, early stage of renal failure in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease and surrogate endpoint for pulmonary embolism ... and increased frequency of the bends from driving although there is no convincing evidence that sickle cell trait increases the incidence of these problems Lesi (1982) identified some types of...
... were Steiner schoolchildren and 2024 reference childrenIn total, 28% of all included children provided a blood sample (1202 Steiner schoolchildren and 634 reference children) The resulting distribution ... number of children included in the questionnaire surveys in Germany and Switzerland, a random sample of eligible children was selected in these countries In Germany, only Steiner schoolchildren ... using Stata 8.0 software (Stata Corp LP, Collage Station, Tex) and explored in models including only demographic variables age, sex, and country (crude analysis)—as well as in models including...
... Dehydration (not drinking fluids to prevent urination) Vaginal symptoms: Itching, burning, pain, & discharge Menstrual complaints: Pain, heavy bleeding, missed or irregular periods, PMS Women in Bureau ... on feminine • hygiene and menstrual self-care practices lead to a decrease in genitourinary complaints during deployment? Specific Aims To increase knowledge level about feminine hygiene in the ... problemsin Deployed Environment Urination: increased rate of UTIs & symptoms (pain, urgency, frequency) • Holding urine • Poor feminine hygiene • Use of “make shift measures” to urinate • Dehydration...
... after Independeoce The continued inequalities in ownership of wealth and in incomes continued to generate huge differences in the type and extent of morbidity in different social classes in Zimbabwe ... Zimbabwe in general, and in the elderly in institutions and homes in particular Race is no longer a deciding factor in most aspects of health status (J' access to care, but it continues, says Agere ... Manpower Issues in Relation to Equity in ~ealth Services in Zimbabwe" ,in Journal of Social Development in Africa, Vol 5, No ' Ministry of Health (1984) Equity in Health, Government Printers, Harare...
... Nurse's Role in Oral Health Introduction and Oral Health Facts Oral health is an important component of overall health and should be integrated into schoolhealth services Because schools are ... of children and youth are, schools and school nurses in particular, have an important role to play in promoting oral health by serving as a significant source of information and participating in ... to participate in the dental/oral health screening The dental health professional performing the oral screening indicated that your child has the following dental needs: GREEN _ Your child may...
... this is a coincidental 16 CONTEXUAL FACTORS IN ASSESSING CHILDREN & ADOLESCENTS finding (cannabis smoking is common among teenagers), a precipitant or a causative agent Often in this age group, ... is being said by: •• •• •• •• •• asking for clarification (factual/explicit meaning); checking inferences (implicit meaning); examining the emotional impact of what is being said; exploring the ... may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information...
... can meet local needs in dealing with SHS.152) CONCLUSION Healthy indoor air is a fundamental right for people studying in schools, working in offices and living in residences Indoor air quality ... combustion gases in residences and buildings CO is well-known to cause poisoning by CO-hemoglobin (Hb) formation, inhibiting oxygen utilization by internal organs NO2 sources in buildings include gas ... improve public health since 1970 by the “Act for Maintenance of Sanitation in Buildings”; however, small buildings and individual residences are not included, and the substances in indoor air and...