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Peer reviewedMowat, David L.; White, Carolyn – American Journal of Public Health, 1985
Children scheduled for medical examination before entering school were followed in school one or two years later. Examination nonattenders had a two-fold risk of repeating grades, special class placement, referral for speech-language problems, teacher-reported learning or behavior problems, failure of vision or hearing screening, transfer between…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Foreign Countries, Medical Evaluation
Peer reviewedLange, Brian M.; And Others – Journal of Dental Education, 1990
Results of a survey of Canadian (n=8) and United States (n=44) dental schools concerning the clinical and didactic curriculum time allotted to preventive dentistry are reported. Comparable time allocation, requirements, and evaluation procedures were found in the two countries, but Canadian schools devote more hours to teaching prevention. (MSE)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Dental Schools, Dentists, Foreign Countries
Download full textPoole, Gary D. – 1987
It was hypothesized that a person's estimates of the preventability of health problems would be related to health behaviors such that a person who engages in healthful behavior should make higher estimates of preventability. A study was conducted to investigate the relationship between causal attribution of health problems and health-related…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, College Students, Foreign Countries, Health Behavior
