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Healthy Schools Network, Inc., 2013
States compel children to attend school; in fact, 98% of all school-age children attend schools--irrespective of conditions. Yet the environmental conditions of decayed facilities or facilities close to hazards can damage children's health and ability to learn. At the same time, it is well documented that healthy school facilities can help…
Descriptors: Health Insurance, Risk, Public Health, Diseases
Fox, Kiira; Heaton, Tim B. – Journal of Rural Health, 2012
Purpose: Rural children in developing countries have poor health outcomes in comparison with urban children. This paper considers 4 questions regarding the rural/urban difference, namely: (1) do individual-level characteristics account for rural/urban differences in child nutritional status; (2) do community-level characteristics account for…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Individual Characteristics, Medical Services, Rural Urban Differences
Behrens, Donna – Center for Health and Health Care in Schools, 2010
There are over 70,000 residents in Ward 8, the poorest area of Washington, DC and along with Ward 7, it's most geographically remote. Approximately 36% of the Ward 8 population consists of children and youth, 18 years or younger. Children in the District of Columbia are at greater risk for poorer health and life outcomes than children in other…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Health Needs, Public Health, Child Health
Brown, Maria Teresa – Gerontologist, 2010
Purpose of the Study: Although considerable attention has been paid to the relationship between later-life depression and cognitive function, the relationship between a history of psychiatric problems and cognitive function is not very well documented. Few studies of relationships between childhood health, childhood disadvantage, and cognitive…
Descriptors: Human Services, Health Conditions, Health Behavior, Children
Wise, Paul H. – Future of Children, 2012
Technological innovation is transforming the prevalence and functional impact of child disability, the scale of social disparities in child disability, and perhaps the essential meaning of disability in an increasingly technology-dominated world. In this article, Paul Wise investigates several specific facets of this transformation. He begins by…
Descriptors: Caring, Delivery Systems, Incidence, Disabilities
Batista, Luciana Rodrigues Vieira; Moreira, Emilia Addison Machado; Rauen, Michelle Soares; Corso, Arlete Catarina Tittoni; Fiates, Giovanna Medeiros Rataichesck – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
Association between oral health status and nutritional status was investigated in 200 semi-institutionalized persons with mental retardation aged 5-53 years, 45.5% female, in the cities of Florianopolis and Sao Jose, province of Santa Catarina, Brazil. In this cross-sectional study, clinical-odontological examination revealed a high percentage of…
Descriptors: Obesity, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation, Nutrition
Bronte-Tinkew, Jacinta; Horowitz, Allison; Scott, Mindy E. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2009
The claim that multiple partner fertility may pose a risk of adverse outcomes for children has not been tested. We test this argument using a sample of 4,027 resident fathers and children from the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Survey by examining the pathways through which fathers' multipartnered fertility is associated with children's…
Descriptors: Health Conditions, Physical Health, Children, Depression (Psychology)
Halfon, Neal; Houtrow, Amy; Larson, Kandyce; Newacheck, Paul W. – Future of Children, 2012
Americans' perceptions of childhood disability have changed dramatically over the past century, as have their ideas about health and illness, medical developments, threats to children's health and development, and expectations for child functioning. Neal Halfon, Amy Houtrow, Kandyce Larson, and Paul Newacheck examine how these changes have…
Descriptors: Incidence, Disabilities, Children, Disease Incidence
Allan, Julaine; Ball, Patrick; Alston, Margaret – Rural Society, 2010
The divide between rich and poor in Australia is starkly apparent in health status statistics; the poorest Australians have the poorest health, and many live in rural Australia. However, little is known about financially deprived rural citizen's perceptions of their own health and their expectations of health care services. As a result,…
Descriptors: Health Services, Rural Population, Intervention, Health Promotion
Currie, Janet; Stabile, Mark; Manivong, Phongsack; Roos, Leslie L. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008
Previous research has shown a strong connection between birth weight and future child outcomes. But this research has not asked how insults to child health after birth affect long-term outcomes, whether health at birth matters primarily because it predicts future health or through some other mechanism, or whether health insults matter more at some…
Descriptors: Siblings, Body Weight, Health Conditions, Public Health
US Department of Health and Human Services, 2011
The National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) provides a unique resource with which to analyze the health status, health care use, activities, and family and community environments experienced by children in rural and urban areas. The NSCH was designed to measure the health and well-being of children from birth through age 17 in the United…
Descriptors: Human Services, Health Needs, Ethnicity, Poverty
Gani, Azmat – Social Indicators Research, 2009
This study provides an overview of the incidence of the communicable and non-communicable diseases in Pacific Island countries. Available health statistics confirms that children continue to die annually due to neonatal causes, diarrhoeal diseases, pneumonia and measles. The adult population in several countries reveals presence and emergence of…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Public Health, Drinking, Foreign Countries
Messina, Nena P.; Marinelli-Casey, Patricia; Hillhouse, Maureen; Ang, Alfonso; Hunter, Jeremy; Rawson, Richard – International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2008
To describe the prevalence of childhood adverse events (CAEs) among methamphetamine-dependent men and women, and assess the relationship of cumulative CAEs to health problems. Data for 236 men and 351 women were analyzed assessing CAEs. Dependent variables included 14 self-reported health problems or psychiatric symptom domains. Mental health was…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Substance Abuse, Agency Cooperation, Incidence
Bakker, Nelleke – History of Education, 2007
As in other Western countries in the Netherlands during the first half of the twentieth century, large numbers of school children were sent to holiday camps or "health colonies" to gain weight and recover strength. At first this large-scale hygienic enterprise was led by teachers, who wanted to "save" poor, undernourished…
Descriptors: Health Conditions, Psychiatry, Children, Foreign Countries
Goel, Sonu; Singh, Amarjeet – International Electronic Journal of Health Education, 2008
Knowledge about various illnesses and their management is not satisfactory among high school students especially in rural areas in India. Various incorrect practices and myths associated with illnesses and injuries still exit. Training and education about correct management of injuries and illnesses for students is a sound and logical investment.…
Descriptors: First Aid, Intervention, Injuries, Knowledge Level