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Milnes, Annette; Pegrum, Karen; Nebe, Brett; Topfer, Alex; Gaal, Lisa; Zhang, Jessica; Hunter, Nicole – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2011
This paper is the fourth in a series of national statistical reports on young people aged 12-24 years produced by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). This report provides the latest available information on how Australia's young people are faring according to national indicators of health and wellbeing. Many young Australians…
Descriptors: Accidents, Social Support Groups, Physical Activities, Mental Disorders
Becker, Craig M.; Johnson, Hans; Vail-Smith, Karen; Maahs-Fladung, Cathy; Tavasso, Debra; Elmore, Barry; Blumell, Charla – Journal of General Education, 2008
Revisions of general education curricula have been ongoing as universities strive to meet the general education goal of helping students succeed. The importance of health status with regard to the future health potential of college students and the impact the college years have on their health has been highlighted in the American College Health…
Descriptors: General Education, Health Conditions, Health Education, Required Courses
Selim, Sibel – Social Indicators Research, 2008
This research aims to investigate life satisfaction and happiness in Turkey. It extends the previous researches on subjective well-being (SWB) for Turkey by considering both happiness and life satisfaction. The previous researches for Turkey are local studies, and their findings cannot be generalized to the population of Turkish society. Given…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Health Conditions, Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns
Wiggins, Noelle – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Popular education is a mode of teaching and learning which seeks to bring about more equitable social conditions by creating settings in which people can identify and solve their own problems. While the public health literature offers evidence to suggest that popular education is an effective strategy for increasing empowerment and improving…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Empowerment, Popular Education
Redlich, Allison D. – American Psychologist, 2007
Comments on the article by J. Owen-Kostelnik, N. D. Reppucci, and J. R. Meyer (see record 2006-05893-002) which reviewed the issues surrounding the police interrogation of minors. This commentary expands on the review by addressing the mental health status of youths who come into contact with police. It stems from two immutable facts: (a) The…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Health Conditions, Mental Health, Risk
Wodrich, David L.; Spencer, Marsha L. S. – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2007
School psychologists (N = 161) completed a questionnaire regarding the category of other health impairment (OHI) and classroom accommodations for children with health conditions. School psychologists indicated that they were familiar with OHI and often used the category. More school psychologists were involved in OHI placements for students with…
Descriptors: Psychologists, School Psychologists, Health Conditions, Hyperactivity
Martin, Jennifer Marie – Higher Education Research and Development, 2010
Stigma is a powerful force in preventing university students with mental health difficulties from gaining access to appropriate support. This paper reports on an exploratory study of university students with mental health difficulties that found most students did not disclose their mental health problems to staff at university. This was primarily…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Health Conditions, Mental Health, Student Unions
Chappell, Neena L.; Funk, Laura M. – Social Indicators Research, 2010
This paper empirically examines the relationship between advantage, social capital and health status to assess (a) whether social capital adds explanatory power to what we already know about the relationship between advantage and health and (b) whether social capital adds anything beyond its component parts, namely social participation and trust.…
Descriptors: Group Membership, Trust (Psychology), Economic Status, Income
Rimashevskaia, N. M.; Dobrokhleb, V. G.; Kislitsyna, O. A. – Russian Education and Society, 2010
The demographic situation in the Russian Federation is characterized by a steady process of natural population loss; it began in 1992 and coincided with the economic crisis. To a partial extent the loss was made up for by migration, and by early 2008 the number of inhabitants of Russia declined to 142 million compared to 148.6 million in early…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Human Capital, Educational Needs, Birth Rate
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
Tun, Patricia A.; Lachman, Margie E. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
This study demonstrated effects of age, education, and sex on complex reaction time in a large national sample (N = 3,616) with a wide range in age (32-85) and education. Participants completed speeded auditory tasks (from the MIDUS [Midlife in the U.S.] Stop and Go Switch Task) by telephone. Complexity ranged from a simple repeated task to an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reaction Time, Health Conditions, Older Adults
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
Tinetti, Mary E.; Gordon, Catherine; Sogolow, Ellen; Lapin, Pauline; Bradley, Elizabeth H. – Gerontologist, 2006
One third of older adults fall each year, placing them at risk for serious injury, functional decline, and health care utilization. Despite the availability of effective preventive approaches, policy and clinical efforts at preventing falls among older adults have been limited. In this article we present the burden of falls, review evidence…
Descriptors: Health Conditions, Older Adults, Accident Prevention, Risk Management
Scott-Marshall, Heather – Social Indicators Research, 2010
This study examines the association between work-related insecurity and health, with a focus on how this relationship is moderated by social location (gender, age and race). Drawing on longitudinal data from a Canadian labour market survey (1999-2004) the findings show that certain groups have a higher prevalence of exposure to certain types of…
Descriptors: Security (Psychology), Job Satisfaction, Labor Market, Occupational Mobility
Lennox, Nicholas G.; Rey-Conde, Therese F.; Faint, Sonya L. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2008
Background: People with intellectual disability often have poor health which may be improved through better health advocacy and enhanced communication with their general practitioner. To this end, we examined the use of the Comprehensive Health Assessment Program (CHAP) and the "Ask" health diary previously developed for adults with intellectual…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Mental Retardation, Health Conditions, Adolescents