background and purpose: there is an increasing interest and concern regarding the role of learning environment in undergraduate medical education in recent years. educational environment is one of the most important factors determining the success of an effective curriculum. the quality of educational environment has been identified to be crucial for effective learning.we compared the perceptio...

background and purpose: school, as a reliable place in educating students, has an important role in training. the aim of this study was the assessment of environmental health of primary schools in norabad mamasani city of fars province. materials and methods: in this analytical-descriptive and cross-sectional study, all of 26 primary schools in norabad mamasani city were surveyed by using censu...

BACKGROUND Although injuries at school are an important issue in public health, environmental factors in schools and school yards have seldom been the focus of school injury research. The goal of our investigation was to examine the effect of environmental factors on school injuries. METHODS Nine comprehensive Finnish schools registered school injuries over a period of two school years. Injur...

introduction: educational environment is an important determinant of students’ behavior and its elements are associated with academic achievement and course satisfaction. the aim of this study was to determine students’expectations of the ideal educational environment. methods: this was a qualitative study with content analysis approach. using a theoretical sampling method, we selected eight st...

Only 25-35% of Canadian children and youth regularly engage in active transportation (AT; e.g., non-motorized travel modes such as walking and cycling) to/from school. Previous research shows that distance between home and school is the strongest barrier to AT. Based on social ecological theory, we describe several strategies to overcome this barrier. At the individual level, children and youth...

clinical learning occurs in the context of a dynamic environment. learning environment found to be one of the most important factors in determining the success of an effective teaching program. to investigate, from the attending and resident's perspective, factors that may affect student leaning in the educational hospital setting at shiraz university of medical sciences (sums). this study comb...

although researchers in this decade have proposed several answers concerning the association between socio-economic levels of health, still one question is not well understood: whether in school or domestic environments, low and high socio-economic status may influence asthma and respiratory symptoms on primary school students. the aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which primar...