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Download full textUK Department for Education, 2021
At every stage since the start of the pandemic, decisions across education and care have been informed by the scientific and medical evidence -- both on the risks of COVID-19 infection, transmission and illness, and on the known risks to children and young people not attending school and college -- balancing public health and education…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Government Role
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Direct linkEshak, Tarek B.; Parker, Lauren; Chiu, Yung-Chen; Isadore, Kyesha M.; Zhai, Yusen; Banerjee, Rhea; Conyers, Liza M. – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2022
Purpose: The role of rehabilitation counseling in addressing major public health issues is an emerging area in the field. Despite higher rates of disease burden among currently or formerly incarcerated people, the syndemic effects of incarceration has received little attention. This article outlines how to think of incarceration from a syndemic…
Descriptors: Rehabilitation Counseling, Counselor Role, Public Health, Institutionalized Persons
Nuzzo, James – Quest, 2021
In 1973, Harriet Williams published in "Quest" on volunteer bias (self-selection bias) in kinesiology research. Williams' evidence-based commentary included a discussion on sex differences in volunteerism. More recently, some exercise and sports scientists (ESS) have suggested "investigator" bias explains the lower proportion…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Gender Differences, Researchers, Sampling
Rees, Nicholas – UNICEF, 2021
The climate crisis is the defining human and child's rights challenge of this generation, and is already having a devastating impact on the well-being of children globally. Understanding where and how children are uniquely vulnerable to this crisis is crucial in responding to it. The Children's Climate Risk Index provides the first comprehensive…
Descriptors: Climate, Childrens Rights, Risk, Natural Disasters
Moeti, Matshidiso R.; Munodawafa, Davison – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
Africa and most of the global south continue to experience a striking burden of communicable diseases, neglected tropical diseases, and high rates of maternal and child mortality, as well as disastrous internecine conflicts and floods. While Africa has been making steady progress in addressing communicable diseases, it now faces new threats from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Diseases, Risk, Disease Control
Pingitore, Alyssa; Mack, Ashley; Zhang, Justin; Devine, Eric G.; Doerr, Jackson; Denneen, Caroline – Research Ethics, 2022
Incidental findings in research with human participants may have implications for a person's present health or future health outcomes. Current guidelines focus on methods for handling and reporting incidental findings from biological test data but incidental findings might also arise from non-biological tests. This article presents three examples…
Descriptors: Ethics, Research Methodology, Data Analysis, Health
Wilson, Shunderla; Whitworth, Brooke A. – Science Teacher, 2020
Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a heart attack (Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics 2017). Students may experience or be affected by several incidences of heart attacks throughout their life. As such, students should be aware of the risk factors and learn the underlying reasons for a heart attack. Most students believe they are…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Smoking, Heart Disorders
Hall, Michael; Elise, Eifert – American Journal of Health Education, 2016
Morbidity and mortality related to chronic diseases are a primary concern of health professionals, including Health Educators. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over one half of the adult population in the United States suffer from one or more chronic conditions. Understanding the health risk behaviors that contribute to…
Descriptors: Diseases, Prevention, Intervention, Health Promotion
Kast, Dieuwertje J.; Bansil, Surbhi; Kast, W. Martin – Science and Children, 2022
Lung cancer is the second most common cancer diagnosis and is the leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States for both men and women. The etiologies of many different types of lung cancer can be linked to risk factors that can be prevented, such as chronic tobacco smoking. Lung cancer is significantly more prevalent among…
Descriptors: Cancer, Clinical Diagnosis, Etiology, Risk
Bates, Susan – Early Childhood Folio, 2018
All workers in New Zealand can expect to have their rights to health implemented in their workplaces. For early childhood teachers, health risks extend to the children they care for, as well as their own offspring. Teachers and carers in daycare and kindergarten are exposed to a range of diseases and sustain various injuries through work practices…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Child Caregivers, Occupational Safety and Health, Foreign Countries
Grogan, Kelly – Journal of Economic Education, 2018
Health insurance policy is a current topic of concern for the United States. The classroom game discussed here provides students with a thorough understanding of some of the policy options under debate, in addition to demonstrating the classic problem of adverse selection. Students received probabilities of encountering a variety of medical…
Descriptors: Health Insurance, Health Services, Costs, Risk
Bailey, John – Education Next, 2020
In this article John Bailey discusses how schools can successfully reopen following the COVID-19 pandemic. Bailey asserts that the rethinking of schooling that was forced by the pandemic can serve as an opportunity to introduce some long-overdue reforms and improvements to better serve students, particularly students of color. The task is not…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, School Safety
European Training Foundation, 2020
All countries in the EU Neighbourhood and Central Asia have been hit by the COVID-19 outbreak to a greater or lesser extent, with overall lower infection numbers compared to some of the EU Member States, although issues of under-reporting may impact on the reliability of data. All countries, apart from Belarus and Turkmenistan, made similar…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Economic Factors, Public Policy
Jenkins, Carolyn; Arulogun, Oyedunni Sola; Singh, Arti; Mande, Aliyu T.; Ajayi, Eric; Benedict, Calys Tagoe; Ovbiagele, Bruce; Lackland, Daniel T.; Sarfo, Fred Stephen; Akinyemi, Rufus; Akpalu, Albert; Obiako, Reginald; Melikam, Enzinne Sylvia; Laryea, Ruth; Shidali, Vincent; Sagoe, Kwamena; Ibinaiye, Philip; Fakunle, Adekunie Gregory; Owolabi, Lukman F.; Owolabi, Mayowa O. – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
Stroke is the leading cause of neurological hospital admissions in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the second leading cause of death globally. The Stroke Investigative Research and Education Network [SIREN] seeks to comprehensively characterize the genomic, sociocultural, economic, and behavioral risk factors for stroke and to build effective teams…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neurological Impairments, Medical Research, Health Education
Hauver, Jennifer; Shealey-Griffiths, Glennda – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2017
One in four children in the state of Georgia is food insecure. In the city of Athens, 60 miles northeast of Atlanta, the number approaches one in three. More than 33 percent of residents have significantly limited access to healthy foods, living in areas of the city that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has identified as food deserts.…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Social Studies, Food, Hunger
