Sec.A663.001.AADEFINITIONS. In this chapter: (1)AA"Child care facility" includes only a child care facility established under this chapter. (2)AA"Child care program" means the program developed by the commission to provide child care services for state employees. (3)AA"Commission" means the Texas Facilities Commission. (4)AA"Committee" means the Child Care Advisory Committee. Added by Acts 1993...

BACKGROUND Childhood malnutrition still remains a major public health problem impacting negatively on the academic aptitude of school-aged children (SAC) particularly in limited resource countries. The Government of Ghana in collaboration with the Dutch Government introduced the school feeding programme (SFP) to boost the nutritional status of SAC in the country. This study sought to compare th...

BACKGROUND Primarily, this study aims to examine whether children attending sports schools are more active than their counterpart attending normal schools. Secondary, the study aims to examine if physical activity (PA) levels in specific domains differ across school types. Finally, potential modifications by status of overweight/obesity and poor cardio-respiratory fitness are examined. METHOD...

BACKGROUND The assessment of oral health status of children in government and private schools provide data on the oral health status of children from different socio-economic background. AIM The aim of the following study is to assess and to compare the oral hygiene status, gingival status and caries experience between children from government and private schools in Andhra Pradesh, India. S...

background: to determine the mean eruption time of permanent teeth of pakistani children and to evaluate the effects of gender, type of schools, height, weight and body mass index on it. methods: this cross sectional study was conducted from september 2007 to april 2008.  4370 children of ‘just erupted' teeth were obtained from 102 randomly selected schools from 18 towns of karachi, using syste...

BACKGROUND Many visually impaired children can learn to read print with appropriate training and simple visual aids. This may allow them to attend normal schools and to be integrated into society, which has lifelong benefits. Yet, in Africa, many visually impaired children are enrolled in special schools and taught only Braille. The purpose of this analysis was to document the extent of inappro...

BACKGROUND Increased prevalence of atopic disorders in children may be associated with changes in types of childhood infections, vaccination programmes, and intestinal microflora. People who follow an anthroposophic way of life use antibiotics restrictively, have few vaccinations, and their diet usually contains live lactobacilli, which may affect the intestinal microflora. We aimed to study th...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and severity of dental caries and to assess treatment needs among schoolchildren aged 6 and 12 in Blumenau, Brazil, and to compare the results found for private and public schools. METHODS A schoolchildren population of Blumenau, SC, Brazil, was studied. A random sample of 1,473 schoolchildren from Blumenau, Brazil, was obtained. Four strata were studied:...

BACKGROUND Physical activity declines as children approach puberty. Research has focussed on psychosocial, environmental, and demographic determinants. This paper explores how family and socioeconomic factors are related to children's physical activity. METHODS Seventeen focus groups were conducted with 113, 10-11 year old children from 11 primary schools in Bristol, UK. Focus groups examined...

purpose: web sites are considered as an important tool on the internet and it has an important role in the utilization of students from the internet. in this study, we tried to evaluate iranian schools web sites. method: research population consists of 122 school websites. we used a check list for evaluation of school websites. findings: we found that all aspects of iranian school websites (aut...