School Health Section

American Academy of Pediatrics Section on School Health: Residency training and continuing medical education in school health.

Children between the ages of 5 and 18 spend a significant amount of their time in school. School health is a vital part of pediatric practice and an important concern for pediatric graduate medical education. There are few substantiated data, however, to suggest that residents entering pediatric practice or academic medicine are exposed to school health in a significant way. Many pediatricians,...

The Public Health Section

Section: Teaching Health Sociology

Most serious efforts aimed at linking social and behavioral sciences knowledge to medical practice have included "models" which integrate social and behavioral science concepts. We argue that such an integration is intellectually problematic due to an important analytic distinction between "social" sciences and "psychological" sciences. If the social explanation of illness is to become useful i...

School Health and Health Education

applications of radioactive material. In Soviet Russia, it was reported that when the average dose received by a worker exceeds 10 times the natural background level, he is granted a shorter working day and a longer annual holiday. A six-hour clay is operative in the case of work with nuclear reactors, with gamma ray radiography of metal and with radioactive luminous compound, etc. In the case ...

Special Section: Health Care Epidemiology

Hand hygiene is one of the basic components of any infection control program and is frequently considered synonymous with hand washing. However, health care workers frequently do not wash their hands, and compliance rarely exceeds 40%. Hand rubbing with a waterless, alcohol-based rub-in cleanser is commonly used in many European countries instead of hand washing. Scientific evidence and ease of...