BACKGROUND Playground injuries are fairly common and can require hospitalization and or surgery. Previous research has suggested that compliance with guidelines or standards can reduce the incidence of such injuries, and that poorer children are at increased risk of playground injuries. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine the association between playground injury and school...

The Indonesian Government initiated a community-based national school-feeding program in 1996. Implementation was decentralized and involved multiple participants. In 1998 we evaluated the implementation of the program and the perceived benefits for community stakeholders using a survey of principals in 143 randomly selected schools and follow-up with in-depth interviews and observations in a s...

Are low levels of schooling infrastructure—in particular, access to secondary schools— and low schooling investment solely the result of failed educational policies, or do they reflect the low school demand that stems from slow economic growth? This paper examines this question by analyzing a large data set in a framework that bases human capital investment on expected returns to schooling. It ...

With the ever-deepening economic reform and international trend of ICT application in education, the Chinese government is strengthening its basic education curriculum reform and actively facilitating the application of ICT in education. Given the achievement gap of ICT infrastructure and its application in middle and primary schools between urban and rural areas, a divide exists between the ne...

For the past two decades, Canada has been experiencing a decrease in the number of active physicians. Currently, the physician-topopulation ratio is 1:492, or 2.03 physicians per 1000 persons [1], in comparison to other OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries, Canada has almost 1 less physician per 1000 people. This physician-to-population ratio then places Canad...

BACKGROUND Balancing medical workforce supply with demand requires good information about factors affecting retention. Overseas qualified doctors comprise 30% of the National Health Service (NHS) workforce in England yet little is known about the impact of country of qualification on length of stay. We aimed to address this need. METHODS Using NHS annual census data, we calculated the duratio...

BACKGROUND There is currently little guidance for pilot trial economic evaluation where health outcomes and costs are influenced by a range of wider determinants and factors. OBJECTIVES This article presents the findings of a pilot economic evaluation study running alongside the Bristol Girls Dance Project (BGDP) feasibility study. DESIGN 3-arm, cluster randomised, controlled pilot trial an...

Why do some countries, regions and schools have more bullying than others? What socio-economic, socio-political and other larger contextual factors predict school bullying? These open questions inspired this study with 53.316 5th- and 9th-grade students (5% of the national student population in these grades), from 1,000 schools in Colombia. Students completed a national test of citizenship comp...