BACKGROUND Although children of lower socio-economic status (SES) in the United States have generally been found to be at greater risk for obesity, the SES-obesity association varies when stratified by racial/ethnic groups-with no consistent association found for African American and Hispanic children. Research on contextual and setting-related factors may provide further insights into ethnic a...

We consider the question whether pupils from the lower social strata perform better in private government-dependent schools than in public or private-independent schools, using the PISA 2000 data on European high schools. In the eighty’s, Coleman and Hoffer (1987) found in the USA that the performance of these pupils was better at religious schools than at comparable public schools. Dronkers an...

US public schools are failing and something must be done. So begins the tale of woe told by US school reformers, and if you should continue to listen, you will soon hear the familiar high points of this well-worn story. First, the purpose of US schools is, for the most part, to further critical national economic goals. Second, failures to achieve these goals are substantially caused by t h e n ...

OBJECTIVE (1) To assess the height, weight and body mass index (BMI) of school children from Delhi and generate percentile charts as appropriate for age, gender and socio-economic status. (2) To determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity in school children from low and upper socioeconomic status (LSES and USES respectively). DESIGN Cross sectional evaluation of anthropometric paramete...

OBJECTIVE To establish the school eating habits of Mexican children, who are prone to obesity and later to high rates of adult chronic diseases. DESIGN Questionnaires for students and parents with staff questionnaires and interviews. SETTING Randomly sampled schools in a socio-economically representative district of Mexico City. SUBJECTS Subjects were 1504 adolescents aged 10-19 years att...

BACKGROUND As in many countries around the world, there are high expectations on academic health science centres and networks in England to provide high-quality care, innovative research, and world-class education, while also supporting wealth creation and economic growth. Meeting these expectations increasingly depends on partnership working between university medical schools and teaching hosp...

BACKGROUND Many children do not meet current UK physical activity (PA) guidelines. Girls are less active than boys throughout childhood, and the age-related decline in PA, particularly from early adolescence, is steeper for girls than for boys. Dance is the favourite form of PA among UK secondary school aged girls. Delivering dance sessions after school could make a significant contribution to ...

Complex networks are used to describe interactions in many real world systems, including economic, biological and social systems. An analysis was done of inter-student friendship, enmity and kinship relationships at three elementary schools by building social networks of these relationships and studying their properties. Friendship network measurements were similar between schools and produced ...

BACKGROUND Changing political and economic relations in Europe mean that there are new challenges for public health and public health training. There have been several attempts to develop training at the master's level in public health which is focused on meeting the new needs. These have failed due to being too inflexible to allow participation by schools of public health. METHODS A project ...

This paper is a study of the response of two heterodox schools of economic thought to ‘new’ philosophical ideas. Specifically, it considers the response within Post Keynesian and Feminist economics to Tony Lawson’s recent call for economists to pay greater attention to ontology and for economists to adopt research methods consistent with critical realism. Lawson’s arguments were formally introd...