Ismail, Mariam R Seabrook, Jamie A Gilliland, Jason A
Published in
Preventive medicine reports
Despite the importance of process evaluation in program evaluations, research has focused primarily on the effectiveness of fruit and vegetables (FVs) distribution interventions on children's consumption, with little attention given to how these interventions achieve their outcomes. Five bibliographic databases (Embase, PubMed, ProQuest, Scopus, an...
Fontenelle-Tereshchuk, Daniela
Published in
Interchange (Toronto, Ont. : 1984)
The COVID-19 crisis forced schools to temporarily close from March 2020 to June 2020, producing unpredictable changes in instructional contexts and patterns. A new concept of ‘homeschooling’ emerged which required parents to support the implementation of the curriculum through remote learning. This article is based on a case study focusing on the p...
Opara, Kenneth N. Akomalafe, Rebecca T. Udoidung, Nsima I. Afia, Udeme U. Yaro, Clement A. Bassey, Bassey E.
Published in
International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS
Background: Schistosomiasis is a Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) that constitutes a public health problem in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), including Nigeria. There is need for updated information on the extent of the disease burden at community level to facilitate effective prioritization and monitoring of the disease. Methods: A cross-sectional study...
Holm, Stephanie M Miller, Mark D Balmes, John R
Wildfire smoke is an increasing environmental health threat to which children are particularly vulnerable, for both physiologic and behavioral reasons. To address the need for improved public health messaging this review summarizes current knowledge and knowledge gaps in the health effects of wildfire smoke in children, as well as tools for public ...
Holm, Stephanie M Miller, Mark D Balmes, John R
Published in
Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology
Wildfire smoke is an increasing environmental health threat to which children are particularly vulnerable, for both physiologic and behavioral reasons. To address the need for improved public health messaging this review summarizes current knowledge and knowledge gaps in the health effects of wildfire smoke in children, as well as tools for public ...
Gába, Aleš Dygrýn, Jan Štefelová, Nikola Rubín, Lukáš Hron, Karel Jakubec, Lukáš
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Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
BackgroundLittle is known on how context-specific sedentary behaviors (SB) affect adiposity. This study aimed to investigate compositional associations between context-specific SB and adiposity and estimate the differences in adiposity associated with replacing school and out-of-school SB with physical activity (PA).MethodsThis study included 336 c...
Nathan, Nicole McCarthy, Nicole Hope, Kirsty Sutherland, Rachel Lecathelinais, Christophe Hall, Alix Lane, Cassandra Trost, Stewart Yoong, Sze Lin Wolfenden, Luke
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Published in
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
BackgroundMany school-based physical activity (PA) interventions are complex and have modest effects when delivered in real world contexts. A commonly reported barrier to students’ PA, particularly among girls, are uniforms that are impractical (e.g. tunic/dress and black leather shoes). Modifying student uniforms may represent a simple interventio...
Abamecha, Fira Sudhakar, Morankar Abebe, Lakew Kebede, Yohannes Alemayehu, Guda Birhanu, Zewdie
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Malaria Journal
BackgroundSchool-based behaviour change communication interventions could help to achieve behavioural changes in the school and enhance the enrollment of the students and teachers as health messengers to local communities. Evidence on the impacts of the school-engaged malaria preventive interventions are limited as far as the social and behaviour c...
Bitencourt, Mariá Romanio Hizukuri, Tatiana Sayuri Bitencourt, Marcos Rogério Alarcão, Ana Carolina Jacinto Carvalho, Elias César Araújo de Andrade, Luciano de Pelloso, Sandra Marisa Carvalho, Maria Dalva de Barros
ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the management of bullying by the managers of elementary schools. Methods: Descriptive, exploratory research carried out through semi-structured interviews with 17 school counselors from a city in the South of Brazil, randomly selected from different geographical sectors. The interviews were recorded with participants...
Schuiteman, Sam Ibrahim, Nadine I Hammoud, Ali Kruger, Laura Mangrulkar, Rajesh S Daniel, Michelle
The COVID-19 outbreak has sown clinical and administrative chaos at academic health centers throughout the country. As COVID-19-related burdens on the health care system and medical schools piled up, questions from medical students far outweighed the capacity of medical school administrators to respond in an adequate or timely manner, leaving stude...
