Encouraging Schools to Promote Health: Impact of the Western Australian School Health Project (1992 - 1995)

1999 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 220-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nyanda McBride ◽  
Richard Midford
1922 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 608-614
Author(s):  
W. A. King

1987 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 224-227
Author(s):  
Bevely J. Hays ◽  
Judith A. Heermann
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2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara Minguez ◽  
John S. Santelli ◽  
Erica Gibson ◽  
Mark Orr ◽  
Shama Samant

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katalin Havasi

- Haemodynamic effect also has individual (fitness and health specifics) and population-level (public health impact) relevance to exercise. - Confirmed evidence about the pupils: differences exist between recovery HR and recovery BP trends: recovery HR remained at a high level, in contrast, the recovery BP decreased to starting level or below. - Established a pilot, exercise-related screening test, called “Fit-test”. It provides an opportunity to gain new insight into the relationship between later manifestations of illness and juvenile burden response.  Fit-test is a low-budget, whole-population screening test, which easily fits into an existing school and school health system.  We have found that is also suitable for screening for MHT, preHT, and sustained HT students, and for monitoring the effects of treatment. - We established a database, the first large dataset of haemodynamic changes of normal-weight pupils during a field exercise test.  We defined the population-specific dynamics and experienced individual dissimilarities.  It provided an opportunity to evaluate the physical and cardiovascular fitness together.  Established a possibility for subsequent monitoring of the health status of the affected generation, and risk group. This dataset is useful for physical education teachers, coaches, physicians and exercise physiologists to evaluate actual cardiovascular fitness and haemodynamic responses to exercise in children or adolescents and follow its change.


Author(s):  
Louise Persson ◽  
Curt Hagquist

Summary To examine whether a public health project to reduce problem behavior in schools and improve the classroom climate, undertaken among eight secondary schools in a municipality in Sweden, was accompanied by favorable changes in the school environment over time. Data were collected from ninth grade students (aged 15–16 years) at three different time points: the year before the project began (2005), during the project (2008) and when the project finished (2011). Changes in the school environment, measured as damage, littering, noise and classroom disorder, were compared between the project municipality and a comparison group of other municipalities in the same county, using multinomial logistic regression analysis. Descriptive comparisons were made between the schools within the project municipality. The school environment improved significantly from 2005 to 2011 in the project municipality compared with the other municipalities. The school environment was improved in all schools within the project municipality. The biggest improvements took place in two schools which systematically worked with one program incorporated into the school schedule. This study demonstrates that it may be possible to improve the school environment by implementing health programs. Further studies based on experimental designs are required in order to confirm the potential and efficiency of school health programs.


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