In determining the best education for the negro under the social conditions in which he finds himself, it would seem to be of first importance to discover, if possible, how he compares in his elementary education with the children of the white race. At present, except in a few instances, the negro children in the North are distributed among the white children in the regular public schools. In t...

School health programmes as a platform to deliver high-impact health interventions are currently underrated by decision makers and do not get adequate attention from the international public health community. We describe the award-winning Fit for School Approach from the Philippines as an example of a large-scale, integrated, cost-effective and evidence-based programme that bridges the gap betw...

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this research aimed at studying and comparing the effectiveness of cognitive-behaviora parents training metods with pretest-posttest control group design. to do so, six classes were randomly selected among the second grade classes of junior high schools in esfahan province. eliss pop's self-esteem test was used as the pretest and 15 students whose self-esteem scores were below the cut-off ...

Pottery art in Iran reached its apex during the Seljuk and Kharazmshahi eras. In these two periods, artists produced high-quality wares,with Minai decorations which were considered as masterpieces of Islamic art from an aesthetical point of view. These wares were decorated with motifs existing in manuscripts illustrated by artists from Baghdad and Seljuk miniature painting schools portraying ep...

background: design of school furniture is one of the contributing factors to back pain among pupils. research has implicated that mismatch between school furniture and body size may be regarded as a causative factor for muculoskeletal disorders amongst pupils. to investigate the fitness between school furniture and pupils this study was designed and implemented in hamadan city, west of iran. me...

This research study was primarily intended to document the progress, participation and academic performance of Québec students of immigrant origin (the entire population of firstand second-generation immigrant students) who began their secondary studies in 1998 and 1999. The second objective of the study was to obtain a better understanding of the factors that influenced these phenomena, using ...

introduction: atopic dermatitis (ad) is a multifactorial chronic and inflammatory disease present all over the world. only a few epidemiologic studies on ad have been carried out in the eastern world, while most of the published papers belong to western countries. to determine prevalence of ad in 7-11 year-old school children in ahwaz as there has been no previous study in this region. methods:...

results grip strength and tip and palmer pinch strength in dominant side were statistically greater than them in nondominant side (p < 0.05). there were significant associations between grip strength and height (r = 0.33, p < 0.001), body mass (r = 0.50, p < 0.001), bmi (r = 0.37, p < 0.001), muscle mass of upper extremity (r = 0.56, p < 0.001), fat free mass (r = 0.57, p < 0.001), fat mass (r ...

objective: in recent years, the prevalence of overweight and obesity had a significant growth in children. obesity is a serious health problem all over the world. in this study, we aimed to determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity in elementary students in robat-karim, iran in 2014. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on 490 female students of elementary sc...