BACKGROUND India is motorising rapidly. With increasing motorisation, road traffic injuries are predicted to increase. A third of a billion children travel to school every day in India, but little is known about children's safety during the school commute. We investigated road traffic injury to children during school journeys. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional survey in Hyderabad using a...

BACKGROUND Extracurricular school-based sports are considered to be an ideal means of reaching children who are not active in community sports. The purposes of this study were to examine the extent to which pupils not engaging in community sports do participate in extracurricular school-based sports, and to assess whether extracurricular school-based sports participants are more physically acti...

Quality of life (QOL) factors have become an area of emphasis for health care and particularly for optometry. The College of Optometrists in Vision Development designed a 30-item checklist (COVDQOL-30). This was later reduced to 19 items (COVD-QOL-19). The two instruments have been shown to have good testretest reliabilities and both have been demonstrated to have validity. The reliability of b...

I HE incidence of simple an(i sporadic goitre has been studied in many parts of world, with the object of finding causes of the condition, and if possible preventi them from becoming serious in later life by early recognition and treatment. interest has beeni takeln in the subject from early' times. Dr. S. I. Turkin remarks in hiis historical survey of medicine, that when Johni Evelyn rode over...

eczema is a very common disorder that affects children. to find out the national prevalence of eczema in iranian children, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis. we conducted a literature review by using the google scholar, pubmed in medline area, altavista, iranmedex and magiran in august 2013. the search terms included: prevalence, eczema, children, pediatric, allergy, isaac and ...

BACKGROUND School-located influenza vaccination (SLV) programs can efficiently immunize large numbers of school-aged children. We evaluated the impact of SLV on laboratory-confirmed influenza and absenteeism. METHODS Active surveillance for influenza-like illness (ILI) was conducted on 4455 children in 4 SLV intervention and 4 control elementary schools (grades K-6) matched for sociodemograph...

BACKGROUND Despite long-standing recommendations to vaccinate children who have underlying chronic medical conditions or who are contacts of high-risk persons, vaccination coverage among school-age children remains low. Community studies have indicated that school-age children have the highest incidence of influenza and are an important source of amplifying and sustaining community transmission...