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Hafner, Marco; Stepanek, Martin; Troxel, Wendy M. – RAND Europe, 2017
Numerous studies have shown that later school start times (SST) are associated with positive student outcomes, including improvements in academic performance, mental and physical health, and public safety. While the benefits of later SST are very well documented in the literature, in practice there is opposition against delaying SST. A major…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Cost Effectiveness, Sleep, Educational Attainment
Haaranen, Ari; Saarti, Jarmo; Miettola, Juhani; Erkkilä, Arja T. – Africa Education Review, 2016
The HEI-ICI project involves cooperation between the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) and three African partners. The main aim of the project, now in its fourth year, has been to develop education in health sciences and to improve the quality of teaching. The target has been to develop the skills of selected junior faculty from the Public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Partnerships in Education, Educational Development
Gisslevik, Emmalee; Wernersson, Inga; Åberg, Helena; Larsson, Christel – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2016
Little is known what the term sustainable development entails in relation to the school subject of home and consumer studies and the subject's knowledge area of food. The aim is to illustrate how food is expressed in national syllabuses of home and consumer studies at present and in the past, and its operationalization into sustainable…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Foreign Countries, Food, Qualitative Research
National Academies Press, 2016
The World Health Organization defines the social determinants of health as "the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life." These forces and systems include economic policies, development agendas, cultural and social norms, social policies,…
Descriptors: Health Education, Barriers, Social Influences, Professional Education
West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, 2020
West Virginia's three state-funded medical schools enroll more medical students per capita than any other state in the country. Due to its large number of medical student slots, the state typically is able to offer all qualified West Virginians the opportunity to complete their medical education in the state. In the academic year 2019-2020, 44…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Public Health, Medical Schools, Health Sciences
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2020
This year's "America's Children in Brief" highlights selected indicators by metropolitan status to give the reader a closer look at how well-being is influenced by the type of community in which children and their families live. The "Brief" also provides a snapshot of the overall well-being of America's children through the…
Descriptors: Well Being, Geographic Regions, Age Differences, Racial Differences
Diliberti, Melissa; Kaufman, Julia H. – RAND Corporation, 2020
School districts across the United States have had to make many difficult decisions to prepare for the 2020-2021 school year amid the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. A seemingly impossible dilemma dominated planning: Should schools reopen buildings to provide much-needed in-person instruction but potentially risk the health…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Disease Control
Kaufman, Julia H.; Diliberti, Melissa; Hunter, Gerald P.; Grant, David; Hamilton, Laura S.; Schwartz, Heather L.; Setodji, Claude Messan; Snoke, Joshua; Young, Christopher J. – RAND Corporation, 2020
In spring 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic led to an unprecedented and sweeping shift in the landscape of public schooling in the United States. Beginning in March, schools across the country closed their doors and adopted remote learning supports that varied in degree and type. In May 2020, researchers from the RAND…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Disease Control
American Association of University Women, 2020
This is an update to the report "Deeper in Debt: Women and Student Loans." Americans today carry $1.54 trillion in student loan debt. That number has more than doubled over the last decade--increasing at nearly six times the rate of inflation. Women are particularly burdened, holding nearly two-thirds of all outstanding loans--around…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Females, Student Loan Programs, College Students
Barrera-Clavijo, Lizeth K.; Wiesner-Ceballos, Carolina; Rincón-Martínez, Lina M. – Health Education Journal, 2016
Background: High-risk human papilloma virus (HR-HPV) is highly prevalent in sexually active men and women; HR-HPV has been classified as a sexually transmitted infection (STI) and as a necessary, but not sufficient, causal agent for cervical cancer. Women who test positive for HPV often experience serious psychosocial consequences such as fear,…
Descriptors: Cancer, Screening Tests, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Risk
Zaidi, Zareen; Verstegen, Daniëlle; Naqvi, Rahat; Morahan, Page; Dornan, Tim – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2016
Cross-cultural education is thought to develop critical consciousness of how unequal distributions of power and privilege affect people's health. Learners in different sociopolitical settings can join together in developing critical consciousness--awareness of power and privilege dynamics in society--by means of communication technology. The aim…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Cross Cultural Training, Power Structure, Fellowships
Pelto, Debra J.; Sadler, Georgia Robins; Njoku, Ogo; Rodriguez, Maria Carina; Villagra, Cristina; Malcarne, Vanessa L.; Riley, Natasha E.; Behar, Alma I.; Jandorf, Lina – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
The pilot study reported in this article culturally and linguistically adapted an educational intervention to promote cancer clinical trials (CCTs) participation among Latinas/os and African Americans. The single-session slide presentation with embedded videos, originally developed through a campus-community partnership in Southern California, was…
Descriptors: Cancer, Intervention, Hispanic Americans, African Americans
Warugaba, Christine; Naughton, Brienna; Hedt-Gauthier, Bethany; Muhirwa, Ernest; Amoroso, Cheryl L. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
The growing utilization of massive open online courses (MOOCs) is opening opportunities for students worldwide, but the completion rate for MOOCs is low (Liyanagunawardena, Adams, & Williams, 2013). Partners In Health (PIH) implemented a "flipped" MOOC in Rwanda that incorporated in-class sessions to facilitate participant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Rural Areas
Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E.; Patrick, Megan E.; Miech, Richard A. – Institute for Social Research, 2016
Monitoring the Future (MTF) is a long-term study of American adolescents, college students, and adult high school graduates through age 55. The study is supported under a series of investigator-initiated, competing research grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and has been conducted annually by the University of Michigan's Institute…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Health Behavior, Communicable Diseases
Tate, William F.; Jones, Brittni D. – Educational Researcher, 2017
Ferguson, Missouri, has been characterized as an archetype of structural inequality and segregation. Several questions guide this investigation of Ferguson and its surrounding region. How did policies, practices, and folkways help to create the conditions in Ferguson and the broader metropolitan region? The regional segregation regime's history…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Neighborhoods, Public Policy, Metropolitan Areas