STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine how child pedestrian exposure to risk, as measured by the mean number of streets crossed, varies according to indices of material disadvantage and ethnic group. DESIGN A questionnaire on pedestrian exposure to risk was distributed to children for completion by parents and return to school. Children from 40 schools were selected using a probability cluster design. ...

University students, in groups of 3 or 4, discussed legal aspects of commercial surrogacy and aftenvards ranked the relative influence of each group member. As predicted, high-influence members spoke more words and had more successful turns during the conversation than low-influence members. The latter used a greater rate of intonation and intensifiers than the former. A closer examination of t...

BACKGROUND School environment influences students' behaviours. The purpose of this research was to identify school environment factors associated with BMI. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted among 1792 school-aged adolescents from 30 schools in six districts in Xi'an City in 2004. Height and weight were taken from students by trained field staff. School environment characteristics ...

background: existence the risk of health problems as well as the environmental consequences of the growing environment to the mental health professionals involved owe in hand to the government in the way of their way to improve of health and environmental facilities societies employ considering the focus sustainable development of human say serious consideration and careful planning in order to...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The evidence base for the importance of the school environment for adolescent emotional health has never been systematically reviewed. We aimed to synthesize the evidence for the effect on adolescent emotional health of (1) interventions targeting the school environment and (2) the school environment in cohort studies. METHODS Searches of Medline, Embase, PsychINFO, ...