429 Photovoice: child participation to develop safer school zones

Photovoice: an opportunity and challenge for students' genuine participation.

It has been highlighted that youth empowerment and participation are important principles for school health promotion. Despite this fact, children and youth are rarely given instruments to participate or to influence their situations and the environments in their schools. Photovoice is a method to increased empowerment and participation. Originally it was created as a community action research ...

[Participation of morphofunctional zones in aging processes].

There are morphofunctional zones in organism tissues, where proliferation and differentiation processes occur. Daughter cells are differentiated in the electric field excited by 12 mother and daughter cell pairs, turned out at cambial cell division. With aging, the cambial cell number is reduced to 7, close to thresholds level (6 cells), at which the differentiation of daughter cells is absent....

Making child care centers SAFER: a non-regulatory approach to improving child care center siting.

Licensed child care centers are generally considered to be safe because they are required to meet state licensing regulations. As part of their licensing requirements, many states inspect child care centers and include an assessment of the health and safety of the facility to look for hazardous conditions or practices that may harm children. However, most states do not require an environmental ...

High School Sports Participation

A photovoice study of school belongingness among high school students in Norway

Although high school graduation is important for living conditions and health throughout life, many students do not complete. In Norway's northern most county, Finnmark, up to 45% of students do not complete high school. Contrary to prior research that has primarily focused on causes for dropout, this study's aim was to deepen understanding of factors that support high school attendance. A stre...