School Health Services
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

School-based health promotion for mosquito-borne disease prevention in children.

29 Sep 2009 We enrolled 345 fourth-grade students in a classroom-randomized, controlled trial to evaluate a school-based West Nile virus health education program's impact on knowledge, attitudes, and personal protective behavior use. Immediate and sustained ... Read more...

Policy statement--guidance for the administration of medication in school.

26 Sep 2009 Many children who take medications require them during the school day. This policy statement is designed to guide prescribing health care professionals, school physicians, and school health councils on the administration of medications to children ... Read more...

Adolescent coping across time: implications for psychiatric mental health nurses.

30 Aug 2009 This article compares rural adolescents' coping responses before and after the behavioral intervention Teaching Kids to Cope with Anger (TKC-A). A quasi-experimental design was used, that included 94 (intervention) and 85 (control) students who were ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'School Health Services'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Taking the service to the young people: a study and analysis of a clinic specifically set up for HPV vaccination provision. 29 Sep 2009
• Kids and the flu. 29 Sep 2009
• School-based health promotion for mosquito-borne disease prevention in children. 29 Sep 2009
• Policy statement--guidance for the administration of medication in school. 26 Sep 2009
• Who should administer insulin in schools? Sorting out the controversy. 26 Sep 2009
• Adolescent coping across time: implications for psychiatric mental health nurses. 30 Aug 2009
• [A Germany school fruit program--needed urgently. Germany co-financing is uncertain] 30 Aug 2009
• Greeting cards: a technique for communicating health messages. 30 Aug 2009
• Condom provision and education in Minnesota public schools: a telephone survey of parents. 30 Aug 2009
• Effective methods to improve recruitment and retention in school-based substance use prevention studies. 30 Aug 2009
• What works to prevent adolescent smoking? A systematic review of the National Cancer Institute's Research-Tested Intervention Programs. 30 Aug 2009
• Evaluations of Web-based psychological interventions need to avoid the re-test artefact. 30 Aug 2009
• An evaluation of performance-arts based HIV-prevention events in London with 13- 16-year-olds. 30 Aug 2009
• Distributing free fresh fruit and vegetables at school: results of a pilot outcome evaluation. 30 Aug 2009
• Issues and implications of screening, surveillance, and reporting of children's BMI. 30 Aug 2009
• BMI measurement in schools. 30 Aug 2009
• Surveillance, screening, and reporting children's BMI in a school-based setting: a legal perspective. 30 Aug 2009
• Arkansas' experience: statewide surveillance and parental information on the child obesity epidemic. 30 Aug 2009
• Assessing BMI in West Virginia schools: parent perspectives and the influence of context. 30 Aug 2009
• The role of culture in the context of school-based BMI screening. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'School Health Services'

Definition: Preventive health services provided for students. It excludes college or university students.

Descriptor UI: D012572

Alternative terms: School Health Services; School-Based Services; School Based Services; School-Based Service; Service, School-Based; Services, School-Based; Services, School Health; Health Services, School; Health Service, School; School Health Service; Service, School Health; School Health; Health, School;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N02.421.143.827.809; N02.421.726.809;

Online Note: use SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES to search SCHOOL HEALTH 1966-78

History Note: 79; was SCHOOL HEALTH 1963-78

Technical Notes: for high school & under; do not confuse with STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES for univ; specify geog; DF: SCHOOL HEALTH SERV