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Courtemanche, Charles J.; Le, Anh H.; Yelowitz, Aaron; Zimmer, Ron – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
This paper examines the effect of fall 2020 school reopenings in Texas on county-level COVID-19 cases and fatalities. Previous evidence suggests that schools can be reopened safely if community spread is low and public health guidelines are followed. However, in Texas, reopenings often occurred alongside high community spread and at near capacity,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, School Schedules
Katrina D. Ashworth – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in early 2020. With it, came a range of concerns, panic, and scrambling for "quick fixes," as families learned to navigate rapid and sometimes confusing pandemic changes. Thirty million Americans were under- or uninsured at the start of the pandemic, so both preventive measures and access to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Social Emotional Learning, Electronic Learning, Distance Education
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Allsopp, Leslie; Sterling, David A.; Spence, Emily; Aryal, Subhash – Journal of School Health, 2020
Background: The dissemination and implementation (D&I) of evidence-based initiative (EBIs) is critical to improved public health. The Asthma 411 EBI was piloted in Texas from 2013 to 2015. The pilot's evaluation assessed its effectiveness and identified approaches to support D&I of school-health EBIs. Methods: The pilot study was conducted…
Descriptors: Diseases, Urban Schools, Health Programs, Evidence Based Practice
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Austin R. Anderson; Eric Knee; Kristy R. Anderson; William D. Ramos – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Campus recreational sport activities impact college student health and well-being in a variety of domains. This multi-institutional study examined the participation of students in campus recreation during the pandemic and explored the relationship between student participation and their demographic markers, COVID-19 experience, and…
Descriptors: Campuses, Recreational Activities, School Safety, Risk
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Adams, Lavonne M.; Canclini, Sharon; Tillman, Kelle – Journal of American College Health, 2019
Objective: To describe activation of a Point of dispensing (POD) in response to an influenza outbreak, highlighting the use of a student-led model. Participants: Faculty, staff, and students of Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Texas Christian University (TCU), as well as those located in its primary building. Methods: In response to…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Communicable Diseases, College Students, College Faculty
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Ugalde, Margaret R.; Guffey, Danielle; Minard, Charles G.; Giardino, Angelo P.; Johnson, Gwendolyn A. – Journal of School Nursing, 2018
Well-prepared school nurses are more likely to handle emergencies properly. Thus, assessing crisis management preparedness is important. In August 2014, a questionnaire was sent to 275 nurses in a large Texas school system to collect data about nurse and school characteristics, emergency frequency and management, and equipment availability.…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Emergency Programs, Readiness, Crisis Intervention
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Graham, Savannah R.; Tolar, Alex; Hokayem, Hayat – Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, almost all universities in the United States switched to online learning in March 2020. We, as educators, faced the reality of switching to online teaching using Zoom. Our approach was to use COVID-19 as the course content to help motivate preservice teachers (PSTs) and alleviate some of the challenges of online…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Maness, Sarah B.; Wilson, Kelly L.; Thompson, Erika L.; Rosen, Brittany L.; Zingg, Taylor – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2020
In the USA, persons of Hispanic ethnicity experience higher rates of adolescent pregnancy and STIs than non-Hispanic white youth and there exists a lack of research concerning the sexuality education preferences of Hispanic adolescents. This study describes sexual health education preferences by Hispanic ethnicity among a high-risk sample of young…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sex Education, At Risk Persons, Puberty
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Vohra, Rini; Madhavan, Suresh; Sambamoorthi, Usha – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
A retrospective data analysis using 2000-2008 three state Medicaid Analytic eXtract was conducted to examine the prevalence and association of comorbidities (psychiatric and non-psychiatric) with healthcare utilization and expenditures of fee-for-service enrolled adults (22-64 years) with and without autism spectrum disorders (International…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Adults, Health Services
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Jetelina, Katelyn K.; Rodriguez, Patricia; Oke, Oluwaseun K.; Mathew, M. Sunil; Schoppa, Susan – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2020
Background: Equitable healthcare outcomes are compromised in the absence of strong medical care and social services linkages. In May 2019, Children's Health, the largest health system for pediatric care in North Texas, initiated a three-pronged social determinants of health (SDOH) quality improvement (QI) project that included: (1) baseline and…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Referral, Teamwork, Training
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Blankenship, Dianna; Jones, Irma S. – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced many changes in the lives of our students and families. In this article, the responses of students in criminal justice classes at a Hispanic serving institution in south Texas were collected and synthesized. The 252 responses were divided into seven frequently observed and repeated themes: jobs and job related,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Mental Health, Student Attitudes
Johnson, Cameron – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2021
As the novel coronavirus spreads across the country, the pandemic has raged through United States correctional facilities with little regard to the health of the incarcerated. The pandemic also affected access to postsecondary education and adult education in correctional facilities. As a result, prison education programs--including postsecondary…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Postsecondary Education, Adult Education
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Housman, Jeff M.; Wilson, Kelly L.; Wiley, David C. – Health Educator, 2018
School-based sexuality education provides a means of disseminating valuable information about decision making and avoidance of risky behaviors that may result in an unplanned pregnancy or sexually transmitted infection; however, effective teacher training is required for efficacious sexuality education programs. The purpose of this paper is to…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Workshops, Attitude Change, Evidence Based Practice
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Roncancio, A. M.; Ward, K. K.; Carmack, C. C.; Muñoz, B. T.; Cribbs, F. L. – Health Education Research, 2017
Rates of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine series completion among adolescent Hispanic females in Texas in 2014 (~39%) lag behind the Healthy People 2020 goal (80%). This qualitative study identifies Hispanic mothers' salient behavioral, normative and control beliefs regarding having their adolescent daughters complete the vaccine series.…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Adolescents, Females, Mother Attitudes
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Hotez, Peter J. – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2013
Enormous strides have been made in reducing the number of global under-five child deaths through expanded development and use of vaccines under the auspices of the GAVI Alliance. However such successes have left behind a significant burden of child morbidity and mortality in developing countries from six major tropical diseases, i.e., dengue,…
Descriptors: Poverty, Diseases, Immunization Programs, Child Health
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