Seven school-related disasters: Lessons for policymakers and school personnel

Consultation With School Personnel

School safety and the partnership between psychiatrists and school personnel.

TO THE EDITOR: We appreciate the comments by Drs. Caplan, Querques, Freudenreich, and Kontos on the consultation-liaison psychiatrist’s perspective regarding the effect of workhour regulation on the declining “ownership” of patients by non-psychiatrist physicians. One potential cost of work-hour regulations is that these requirements may further fragment the already complex and confusing team-b...

Global school personnel survey among 5200 school personnel in India: comparison of the results for the years 2009 and 2006.

BACKGROUND The results of the Global School Personnel Survey (GSPS) conducted in India in 2009 are compared with 2006 GSPS to assess any change in 2009 on tobacco use and knowledge and attitudes to tobacco use, training and availability of tobacco control teaching material in schools and the existence of school tobacco control policies. METHODS GSPS is a cross sectional survey conducted twice...

Working Group 3: Professional Development for Policymakers, School Leaders and Teachers

Education is fundamentally important for human advancement. Information and communication technologies (ICT) have potential to contribute to the effectiveness of education but professional development (PD) for all stakeholders is necessary for that potential to be achieved. In building on work from previous EDUsummIT meetings the focus of this theme will be on how to scale successful experience...

Epidemiology of sports-related concussion in seven US high school and collegiate sports

BACKGROUND The epidemiology of sports-related concussion is not well-described in the literature. This paper presents a descriptive epidemiology of concussion in seven high school and collegiate sports. METHODS We used the data from Concussion Prevention Initiative (CPI), which enrolled 8905 athletes at 210 high schools and 26 colleges in a prospective cohort study of 7 sports (football, men'...