OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of sexuality education practices on adolescent birthrates while controlling for demographic characteristics and religious/political factors at a state level. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Twenty-four states, from 1997 through 2005. PARTICIPANTS Girls aged 15 to 17 years. MAIN EXPOSURE The state sexuality education practices (ie, sexually transm...

The government of Uganda eliminated primary school fees during the insurgency Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group notorious for abducting aged boys and girls to turn them into rebels through indoctrination intimidation. Previous research shows that no-fee policy, commonly known as Universal Primary Education (UPE) programme, increases access education mainly girls. I test hypothesis UPE...

The implementation of female education policies plays a significant role in promotion academic performance and other schooling learning outcomes. purpose this study therefore was to establish the relationship between girls’ students Rusizi District Rwanda. This adopted correlation research design while structured questionnaires, interview guide document reviews were used as data collection inst...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between obesity and food group intakes, physical activity and socio-economic status in adolescents. DESIGN A cross-sectional study was carried out in 2008. Cole's cut-off points were used to categorize BMI. Abdominal obesity was defined by a waist circumference at or above the 90th percentile, as well as a waist-to-height ratio at or above 0·500. Diet was ...

Introduction: Women continue to score lower on standardized mathematics tests and to report lower academic confidence compared to their male peers (Huguet & Régner, 2007). In order to address this disparity, some positive youth development organizations have created academic programming that targets girls. Cool Girls, Inc., is dedicated to the self-empowerment of girls in Atlanta, Georgia and t...

OBJECTIVES Korean adolescent girls are unprepared for cervical cancer prevention due to the lack of a mandatory policy regarding human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination and school health education regarding cervical cancer. The aim of this study was to determine how aware mothers are about cervical cancer prevention in their adolescent daughters, with a view to developing strategies for expandi...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to analyze the association between overweight prevalence and socioeconomic status (SES) measured by complex SES index and single SES factors in Polish adolescents in respect to age and sex. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2010-2011. A total of 1,176 adolescents aged 13.0-18.9 years were included. The respondents were students of junior-...

BACKGROUND Clinical anecdote suggests that rates of eating disorders (ED) vary between schools. Given their high prevalence and mortality, understanding risk factors is important. We hypothesised that rates of ED would vary between schools, and that school proportion of female students and proportion of parents with post-high school education would be associated with ED, after accounting for in...

This paper reports on an effort to address the issue of inequality in girls’ and women’s access to science, engineering and technology (SET) education and careers through raising awareness on SET among secondary school girls in South Africa. Girls participated in hands-on high-tech rapid prototyping environment of a fabrication laboratory that was aimed at stimulating creativity and innovation ...