Schools are high-risk type of facilities in fire emergencies. This requires the implementation safety measures, which comprise administrative and operational efforts to mitigate occurrence accidents. The review literature indicated lack practical approaches that can be easily adopted for management school facilities. paper presents development a generic framework A domain schools was performed ...

CMAJ • DECEMBER 14, 2010 • 182(18) © 2010 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors 1997 Before the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti, chronic poverty, lack of infrastructure and poor performance on key health indicators had long threatened the well-being of Haiti’s children. Though Haiti ratified the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1994, this nation has the hi...

This study estimated the dietary exposure to antimony of secondary school students in Hong Kong and assessed the associated health risks. Dietary exposure to antimony was estimated using the local food consumption data obtained from secondary school students in 2000 and the concentrations of antimony in food samples taken from the local market. Laboratory analysis for antimony was conducted by ...

The purpose of this study was to compare teachers and parents as instructors of a personal safety program. One hundred seventy-two Head Start preschoolers were randomly assigned to a personal safety program taught by their teachers, parents, both teachers and parents, or to a general safety control program. Following program participation, children taught the personal safety program by their te...

BACKGROUND Neighborhood safety may be an important social environmental determinant of overweight. We examined the relationship between perceived neighborhood safety and overweight status, and assessed the validity of reported neighborhood safety among a representative community sample of urban adolescents (who were racially and ethnically diverse). METHODS Data come from the 2006 Boston Yout...

Fifty years after the landmark Brown u. Board of Educationl decision, we review student civil rights in the context of current educational policies and practices. Using the highly publicized drug raid at Stratford High School in Goose Creek, South Carolina, we analyze the legal and policy issues raised by the raid. As did Brown v. Board of Education, we evaluate the important psychological effe...

Walking can be a healthy, sustainable, and equitable mode of transportation, but is not widely used for children's school travel. This study identifies multi-level correlates of walking to/from school and relevant policy implications. We surveyed parents/guardians of 2,695 students from 19 elementary schools in Austin, Texas, which featured diverse sociodemographic and environmental characteris...