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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Integrating NTD mapping protocols: Can surveys for trachoma and urinary schistosomiasis be done simultaneously?

30 Oct 2009 We determined whether the school-based "disease mapping" methodology used to assess urinary schistosomiasis (SCH) is useful for determining trachoma interventions and whether the district-based approach recommended for trachoma is useful for SCH ... Read more...

Density of tobacco retailers near schools: effects on tobacco use among students.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVES: We examined the relationship between students' tobacco use and the density and proximity of tobacco retailers near their schools. METHODS: We used data from the 2003-2004 California Student Tobacco Survey and California retail licensing ... Read more...

Design and implementation of an effective telephone counseling intervention for adolescent smoking cessation.

10 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Effective smoking cessation for youth is urgently needed, but the literature guiding such efforts is nascent. We evaluated the implementation of a proactive intervention for adolescent smoking cessation that incorporated motivational ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Schools'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Integrating NTD mapping protocols: Can surveys for trachoma and urinary schistosomiasis be done simultaneously? 30 Oct 2009
• Density of tobacco retailers near schools: effects on tobacco use among students. 30 Oct 2009
• Design and implementation of an effective telephone counseling intervention for adolescent smoking cessation. 10 Oct 2009
• Group-randomized trial of a proactive, personalized telephone counseling intervention for adolescent smoking cessation. 10 Oct 2009
• Availability of less nutritious snack foods and beverages in secondary schools - selected States, 2002-2008. 7 Oct 2009
• Flow and diffusion of high-stakes test scores. 3 Oct 2009
• The twain shall meet. 29 Sep 2009
• [Selective inability to speak, a expression of division between two cultures] 29 Sep 2009
• Pandemic influenza planning: addressing the needs of children. 29 Sep 2009
• Performance of rapid influenza diagnostic tests during two school outbreaks of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infection - Connecticut, 2009. 23 Sep 2009
• Evaluation of a multiple ecological level child obesity prevention program: Switch what you Do, View, and Chew. 16 Sep 2009
• Water pipe tobacco smoking among middle and high school students. 15 Sep 2009
• "They don't care what happens to us." The situation of double orphans heading households in Rakai District, Uganda. 2 Sep 2009
• Are children diagnosed with the combined form of ADHD pervasively hyperactive? 30 Aug 2009
• Focus on food: development of the Cooking with Kids experiential nutrition education curriculum. 30 Aug 2009
• Cost-effectiveness of new-generation oral cholera vaccines: a multisite analysis. 30 Aug 2009
• Contribution of athletic identity to child and adolescent physical activity. 30 Aug 2009
• Adolescent behavioral, affective, and cognitive engagement in school: relationship to dropout. 30 Aug 2009
• Transitions from school for young adults with intellectual disability: Parental perspectives on "life as an adjustment". 30 Aug 2009
• Intervention with an infection control bundle to reduce transmission of influenza-like illnesses in a thai preschool. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Schools'

Definition: Educational institutions.

Descriptor UI: D012574

Alternative terms: Schools; School; Schools, Secondary; School, Secondary; Secondary School; Secondary Schools; Primary Schools; Primary School; School, Primary; Schools, Primary;

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

Tree Number: I02.233.659; I02.783;

Technical Notes: policy: Manual 30.7.3, 30.8; specify geog if pertinent