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Gender, Sex and Equal Health: School Nurses' Strategies and Experiences of Including Boys in the HPV Vaccination Programme in Swedish Primary Schools
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Odenbring, Ylva; Lindén, Lisa – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2023
Since autumn 2020, boys in the fifth year of school (11-year-old students) in Sweden have been offered human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for free. Drawing from individual interviews with 21 school nurses working in primary schools in one of Sweden's regions, the aim of this study was to explore nurses' strategies and experiences of informing…
Descriptors: Males, Grade 5, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Immunization Programs
Biosocial Influences on Sex Differences in School Achievement.
Fischbein, Siv – 1983
Biosocial influences on sex differences, found for school achievement test results in grades 3 and 6, have been studied by means of opposite-sex twin pairs and singleton controls, attending the same classes as the twins. As expected the opposite-sex twin pairs tend to be more similar in achievement test results in Swedish and mathematics than…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Biological Influences, Chronological Age
Biosocial Influences on Sex Differences for Ability and Achievement Test Results as Well as Marks at School.
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Fischbein, Siv – Intelligence, 1990
A comparison was made of ability and achievement test results and school grades for 323 pairs of Swedish male and female twins and 740 controls in relation to social background. An interaction effect of sex and social background was found for verbal ability and mathematics test results. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests