Author Affiliations: Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (Hwang, Turner, Kruszewski, Alexander); Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (Hwang, Turner, Alexander); Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (K...

Address: 1Division of Pathology, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Hiroo, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan 150-8935, 2Department of Internal Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Hiroo, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan 150-8935, 3Drug Safety Research Laboratory, Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Japan, 4Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Kitasato University, Japan, 5Department of Anatomy, Akita...

1. Dept. of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 2. Immunology Research Center, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 3. Dept. of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 4. Research Center for Patient Safety, Mashhad University of Medical Scie...

As school psychology enters the new millennium, policy makers are demanding that steps be taken to ensure the safety of schools. This article argues that school psychology should provide a primary leadership role in this initiative based on their professional training and expertise. Furthermore, the tensions created by social expectation to implement violence-prevention and intervention program...

The Society of Behavioral Medicine recommends school officials start middle and high school classes at 8:30 am or later. Such a schedule promotes students' sleep health, resulting in improvements in physical health, psychological well-being, attention and concentration, academic performance, and driving safety. In this position statement, we propose a four-tiered approach to promote later schoo...

Today's 'backseat generation' of children is more often driven to school. Active school travel (AST) can contribute up to 30% of recommended daily physical activity. Although governed by a complex set of factors, parents are considered 'gatekeepers' of children's travel mode decisions. Therefore, we investigate the relationship between parental support and children's AST. Data were from Active ...

Childhood sun protection is important to reduce the risk of developing skin cancer later in life. An evaluation of an expanded version of the Sunny Days, Healthy Ways sun safety instructional program was conducted with 744 students in 77 kindergarten to fifth grade classes in 10 elementary schools. Students in six schools received instruction twice over two school years. Students in four school...

Objectives This study explores how medical graduates and their workplace supervisors perceive the value of a structured clinical audit program (CAP) undertaken during medical school. Methods Medical students at the University of Notre Dame Fremantle complete a structured clinical audit program in their final year of medical school.  Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 Notre Dame...

The Kids and Communities Count Farm Safety Lesson is a follow-up to our Kids Count Lesson that used the North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks (NAGCAT) and was previously delivered to nearly 2,000 fifth-grade students in Hillsborough County, Florida. This year, the lesson was administered in two migrant schools and included a parent survey and a presentation of the lesson i...