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Walker, Carol; Beck, Charles R.; Eccles, Richard; Weston, Chris – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
The NHS Constitution requires all NHS organisations to provide high-quality comprehensive services, based on clinical need, which do not discriminate between patients (DH 2010a). Together with its health and social care partners, the NHS also has a statutory duty of care to meet the needs of all patients with dignity and compassion. Recent…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Learning Disabilities, Adults, Evidence
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Miyamoto, Robin E. S.; Burke, Katherine; Fox, Kealoha – Educational Perspectives, 2019
Over the past forty years, considerable attention and funding has been spent to improve the health status of Kanaka ?Oiwi. While gains have been made, Kanaka 'Oiwi continue to experience an average life span ten years shorter than that of the general population (Wu et al. 2017). This is caused in part by non-communicable diseases such as diabetes,…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Labor Force Development, Indigenous Populations, Hawaiians
Houston Independent School District, 2015
The Houston Independent School District (HISD)'s campus-based vision screening program is designed to identify students who experience vision impairments, communicate the potential needs to students and their parents/guardians, and provide service alternatives for students to receive vision care, including services that are offered free of charge.…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Vision Tests, Partnerships in Education, Health Services
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Sanetti, Lisa M. Hagermoser – Psychology in the Schools, 2017
Nearly a quarter of the students in the U.S. education system have a chronic health condition, disability, or special healthcare need. Students living in poverty and those at risk for or with disabilities have higher rates of health issues and encounter more barriers to accessing appropriate health care than their peers. The reciprocal influences…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Comprehensive School Health Education, Low Income Students, Poverty
Kelly Vaillancourt Strobach; Sheila Desai; Nick Affrunti; Katherine C. Cowan; Caden Fabbi – National Association of School Psychologists, 2020
This document details seven guiding principles and recommends actions designed to advance equity and lower or remove individual and structural barriers to learning by creating school environments that: (1) promote wellness; and (2) effectively address the learning, behavioral, social-emotional, and mental health needs of students. These…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Equal Education, Barriers, Social Emotional Learning
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Tello, Angelica M.; Castellon, Nancy E.; Aguilar, Alejandra; Sawyer, Cheryl B. – Professional Counselor, 2017
The United States has recently seen a significant increase in the number of unaccompanied minors from the Northern Triangle of Central America (i.e., El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala). These children and youth are refugees fleeing extreme poverty and gang violence. This study examined the narratives of 16 refugees from the Northern Triangle…
Descriptors: Refugees, Poverty, Juvenile Gangs, Personal Narratives
Tawa, Kayla – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2021
The U.S. Department of Education required each state to submit a reopening plan outlining how they were using and planned on using Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds. The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) conducted an analysis of 37 state plans to better understand if and how schools were collecting student…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary Secondary Education, Mental Health
Estes, Elizabeth; Davis, Jeff; Shilton, Adrienne; Stoner-Mertz, Christine; Funk, Michael; Eisenberg, Lisa; Weller, Teneh; Knecht, Richard S.; Kelley, Veronica; Kain, Lara; Peck, Jennifer; Rosario, Aleah; Lombardo, Michael; Kimner, Hayin; Jacobs, Melissa; Dickey, Amanda; Epstein, Ken; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Alcala, Lupita; Caparas, Ruthie; Coley, Aressa; Justus, Marianne; Willis, Jason; Larsen, Karen – WestEd, 2022
This field guide is a first step by a collaborative of California child-serving education, health, and social service experts and leaders to further California's current efforts toward one effective, integrated, comprehensive, school-based child-serving system. The guide includes guidance for both local education agencies (LEAs) and state leaders,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Guides, School Districts, Public Officials
Cohen, Julie; Stark, Deborah Roderick – ZERO TO THREE, 2020
This article describes some of the extraordinary accomplishments of the second cohort of states to participate in the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Financing Policy Project (IECMH-FPP). The purpose of the IECMHFPP is to support states' advancement of IECMH assessment, diagnosis, and treatment policies that will contribute to the healthy…
Descriptors: Mental Health, State Policy, Infants, Young Children
McCaig, Marilyn M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The study examined the health needs of students at a south Texas university and documented the utility of the student health center. The descriptive study employed a mixed methods explanatory sequential design (ESD). The non-probability sample consisted of 140 students who utilized the university's health center during the period of March 23-30,…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Universities, Health Needs, Student Needs
Bridgman, Anne – Society for Research in Child Development, 2016
Most U.S. children (94%) have some form of health insurance coverage. While this is the highest rate in U.S. history, poor children still lag behind middle-income children. Serious infectious diseases (e.g., measles, diphtheria, meningitis) and severe malnutrition have declined or disappeared, and new treatments have improved life expectancy among…
Descriptors: Health Services, Child Development, Child Health, Public Policy
Perrin, James M.; Boat, Thomas F.; Kelleher, Kelly J. – Society for Research in Child Development, 2016
Rates of health insurance for children have improved significantly over the past few decades, and more children have insurance than ever before in U.S. history. Health care does improve child health and well-being, but growing understanding of social and community influences has led health care practitioners to work toward more comprehensive and…
Descriptors: Health Services, Child Development, Child Health, Public Policy
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Culler, Corinna S.; Kotelchuck, Milton; Declercq, Eugene; Kuhlthau, Karen; Jones, Kari; Yoder, Karen M. – Journal of School Health, 2017
Background: School-based dental programs target high-risk communities and reduce barriers to obtaining dental services by delivering care to students in their schools. We describe the evaluation of a school-based dental program operating in Chelsea, a city north of Boston, with a low-income and largely minority population, by comparing…
Descriptors: School Health Services, At Risk Students, Access to Health Care, Dental Health
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Macias-Konstantopoulos, Wendy L.; Munroe, Deanne; Purcell, Genevieve; Tester, Kristina; Burke, Thomas F.; Ahn, Roy – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2015
Objectives: The commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC), including sex trafficking of minors, is considered a severe form of abuse and violence against minors. We use a public health lens to examine perceptions regarding the context and process of CSEC and sex trafficking of minors in the Boston area, the response of the health care…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Children, Crime, Metropolitan Areas
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Reidy, Mary; Denieffe, Suzanne; Foran, Sinéad – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2014
In the Republic of Ireland, more than 8000 women with intellectual disabilities (IDs), aged 20 years and over, are registered for service provision. Their health needs challenge preventative health services including breast and cervical cancer screening programmes. This review explores the literature about cancer screening participation rates and…
Descriptors: Cancer, Screening Tests, Females, Consciousness Raising
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