Background: Growing health disparities have a negative impact on young people's educational achievement. Community schools that involve deep relationships with partners across multiple domains address these disparities by providing opportunities and services that promote healthy development of young people, and enable them to graduate from high…

School nurses spend considerable time caring for the needs of children with asthma and thus can offer valuable insights into barriers to asthma care within the school setting. Investigators conducted focus groups with school nurses in Dayton Public Schools to evaluate barriers to asthma care for children in an urban school system. The school…

A screening program for the detection of scoliosis was initiated in four Toledo, Ohio area schools. The primary objective of the program was to provide early diagnosis so that bracing might help to avoid surgical treatment later. Recommendations include: (1) yearly examinations; (2) examination of the siblings of afflicted students; and (3) movies…