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Understanding Pediatricians' Views toward School-Based BMI Screening in Massachusetts: A Pilot Study
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Direct linkPietras, Stefanie A.; Rhodes, Erinn T.; Meyers, Alan; Goodman, Elizabeth – Journal of School Health, 2012
Background: Massachusetts (MA) mandated body mass index (BMI) screening in schools in 2010. However, little is known about pediatricians' views on school-based screening or how the pediatricians' perspectives might affect the school-based screening process. We assessed MA pediatricians' knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and practices concerning BMI…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Body Weight, Screening Tests, Pediatrics
Drew, Jacob; Cashman, Suzanne B.; Savageau, Judith A.; Stenger, Joseph – Journal of Rural Health, 2006
Context: Hospitals in rural communities may seek to increase specialty care access by establishing clinics staffed by visiting specialists. Purpose: To examine the visiting specialist care delivery model in Massachusetts, including reasons specialists develop secondary rural practices and distances they travel, as well as their degree of…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Clinics, Models, Health Services
Download full textDresslar, F. B.; Wood, Thomas D.; North, Charles E. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1912
One of the most important factors in the education of children is the establishment of their physical health, without which all learning and training must have less value for the individual and for society than they would have with it. Implicitly in the act creating the Bureau of Education and explicitly in recent acts of Congress, investigations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Policy, State Policy
