Black supplementary schools: Addressing the declining attendance

Addressing childhood overweight through schools.

Rates of childhood obesity in have reached alarming proportions in many countries. Sixteen percent of school-aged children and adolescents in the U.S. are overweight. Legislation implemented in 2004 in the U.S. requires local education agencies (LEAs) that sponsor school meal programs to establish local wellness policies to address childhood obesity. Project PA, a collaboration between a state ...

Addressing Bullying in Schools: Theory and Practice

Disclaimer: This research paper does not necessarily reflect the policy position of the Commonwealth Government. Adam Graycar Director Bullying in schools has become an issue of major importance among educators. However, interventions to reduce bullying have enjoyed only modest and limited success. This paper examines five different explanations for bullying. These emphasise, respectively: 1. d...

Resources for addressing asthma in schools.

• Managing Asthma in Schools—What Have We Learned? This special issue of the Journal of School Health provides updated information on developing, implementing, and evaluating school-based asthma programs. It features more than 25 research articles, brief reports, and case studies that cover a range of activities, such as asthma education programs for students and staff members, asthma-related h...

Historically black medical schools: addressing the minority health professional pipeline and the public mission of care for vulnerable populations.

Substantial changes in not only access to care, cost, and quality of care, but also health professions education are needed to ensure effective national healthcare reform. Since the actionable determinants of health such as personal beliefs and behaviors, socioeconomic factors, and the environment disproportionately affect the poor (and often racial/ethnic minorities), many have suggested that ...

Stretching the Higher Education Dollar Addressing the Declining Productivity of Higher Education Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis