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Moinipour, Shabnam – Human Rights Education Review, 2021
The Islamic Republic of Iran is obliged to respect the right to education under international human rights law and has made legal commitments to conform to the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Drawing on the framework developed by former Special…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Rights, Children, Treaties
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Henry, Brandy F. – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Incarcerated people are at disproportionately high risk of contracting COVID-19. Prisons are epicenters for COVID-19 transmission, including to the community. High rates of preexisting health conditions, limited access to quality health care, and inability to social distance make it impossible to reduce the impact of COVID-19 in prisons. Due to a…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Public Policy, Disease Control
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Kozub, Mary L.; Kozub, Francis M. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2012
The roles of teachers, nurses, and other educational personnel are changing. In the case of the school nurse, the responsibilities have expanded to include health promotion and various other roles outside of the traditional duties of providing first aid, administrating medications, and monitoring the daily health status of students (Broussard,…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Physical Education, First Aid, Health Conditions
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Reiher, Cornelia – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2012
Japan's Basic Law on Food Education (Shokuiku kihonho) was enacted in June 2005 as a response to various concerns related to food and nutrition, such as food scandals, an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related diseases and an assumed loss of traditional food culture. The Law defines food education (shokuiku) rather vaguely as the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Food, Nutrition, Facilities
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Sells, Clifford J.; Paeth, Susan – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1987
Basic health and day care policies and procedures should be implemented and closely monitored with the help of a health consultant, particularly in terms of respiratory tract, enteric, skin, invasive bacterial, and multiple system infections; Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; vaccine preventable diseases; and general safety procedures.…
Descriptors: Children, Communicable Diseases, Consultants, Day Care
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Bernhartsen, J. C.; Schlenker, Richard – Current, 1981
Cold water fatalities are described and defined, including drownings, trauma, hydrocution and hypothermia. The levels of hypothermia are outlined, and symptoms and steps to stop and reverse hypothermia are described. (DS)
Descriptors: Death, Health Conditions, Health Education, Higher Education
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Journal of American College Health, 2005
Assessing and understanding the health needs and capacities of college students is paramount to creating healthy campus communities. The American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment (ACHA-NCHA) is a survey instrument developed by the American College Health Association (ACHA) in 1998 to assist institutions of higher…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Safety, Prevention, College Students