Scaffolding Children's Participation in Schools' Environmental Health

2020 ◽  
pp. 265-283
Author(s):  
Maria João Silva ◽  
Eduarda Ferreira ◽  
Alexandra Souza ◽  
Ana Rita Alves ◽  
Susana Batista
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Epistemic Practices ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Environmental Health Problem ◽  
Children's Participation

The goal of the research reported in this chapter is to explore if children can participate in schools' environmental health, while being supported by teacher mediation and eco-sensors. Eco-sensors should be used as epistemic mediators to support children in acquiring and interpreting environmental data to suggest solutions to schools' environmental health problems. Teacher mediation can scaffold children's epistemic practices to promote children's participation in scientific inquiries, centered on environmental health problem solving. A web-based platform is used as a database and to share, in multiple representations, the data acquired and organized by children. This research includes two case studies on two environmental health problems: sound pollution and air pollution. The identification of children's epistemic practices and of teacher mediation is made using audio recordings, and pre- and post-tests are used to assess other learning results. The results showed that digital sensors and teacher mediation scaffolded children's participation in environmental health.

scholarly journals Impact of Environment on Health: Nurse’s Role

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijayaraddi Vandali ◽  
Rekha B Biradar
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Related Risk ◽  
Heavy Pollution

ABSTRACT: Human life without environment is not at all possible, recent years due to huge urbanization and rise in technology affecting the health in a worst manner, ultimately we are only the responsible, Objectives :This article focuses to create awareness regarding environmental health problems. This article focuses on the issues, information to environmental health problems including sources of toxicants. The resources for nurses to prevent, minimize, to treat adverse environmental exposures. To draw attention of NGOs and Govt. There are many report (TOI) says that 70% of Indians doesn’t breathe fresh air due to air pollution and not able to get safe drinking/adequate water its due to water pollution and major cause for this is huge increase in population, fastest growing urbanization. Heavy pollution occurred such air, water, food and huge chemicals using for growing crops also the main reason to reduce life-span as well as increase the risk of developing diseases. The nurse plays a pivotal role in prevention of environmental related risk and illness by continuous touch with the community peoples. The Nurse plays a pivotal role in prevention of health problems with regard to environment, primarily should have thorough knowledge about environmental impact in health and prevent.  Nurse is foremost person who will assist in screening, diagnosis and alleviating health symptoms at the all the levels of health care.

Using Eco-Sensors to Support Children's Participation in Environmental Health

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 33-45
Author(s):  
Maria João Silva ◽  
Eduarda Ferreira ◽  
Alexandra Souza ◽  
Ana Rita Alves ◽  
Susana Batista
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Young People ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Indoor Air ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Epistemic Practices ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Environmental Health Problem

School has a major role in preparing young people to participate meaningfully in a context where digital technologies are increasingly mediating the way people interact with the surrounding environment. The goal of the research reported in this paper is to study how children can participate in school environmental health, using eco-sensors and digital technologies in scientific inquiries. Eco-sensors are used by children to acquire, analyze, interpret, and communicate data, as a support to the identification of problems and to their own environmental health decisions. This paper presents two case studies, one centered on noise and one on indoor air quality, in Portuguese elementary schools. It is a qualitative research that highlights that children can participate in authentic and meaningful environmental health problem solving in schools. Problem solving is developed through scientific inquiries that include children epistemic practices, scaffolded by teacher mediation and epistemic mediators, such as eco-sensors and other digital technologies.

scholarly journals Adjusting and doing the same: school nurses’ descriptions of promoting participation in health visits with children of foreign origin

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmie Wahlström ◽  
Marie Golsäter ◽  
Mats Granlund ◽  
Inger K. Holmström ◽  
Peter Larm ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
School Health ◽  
School Nurses ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Foreign Origin ◽  
Child Centered ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation

Abstract Background School nurses in the school health services are assigned to promote health and participation among children when conducting health visits. Still, for children of foreign origin this promotion of participation might be hampered by challenges related to cultural diversity and language barriers. Therefore, knowledge needs to be developed regarding how these children’s participation can be promoted, to support them in sharing and describing matters important for their health. The aim was to investigate school nurses’ descriptions of promoting participation for children of foreign origin in health visits. Methods A content analysis of 673 Swedish school nurses’ answers to eight open-ended questions regarding promotion of participation for children of foreign origin was conducted. The open-ended questions were part of a larger web-based cross-sectional survey distributed to school nurses in Sweden. Results The results show that school nurses use three main approaches during the health visit: adjusting according to the child’s proficiency in Swedish and/or cultural or national background, adjusting according to the child’s individual needs, and doing the same for all children regardless of their origin. Yet, adjustments according to the child’s proficiency in Swedish and/or cultural or national background were the most common. Conclusions By combining the approaches of adjusting, a child-centered care that contributes to children’s participation in health visits and equity in health could be provided.

scholarly journals Caregiver Input to Optimize the Design of a Pediatric Care Planning Guide for Rehabilitation: Descriptive Study (Preprint)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary A Khetani ◽  
Heather K Lim ◽  
Marya E Corden
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Care Plan ◽  
Pediatric Care ◽  
Care Planning ◽  
Completion Rates ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Initial Care ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Planning Guide ◽  
Children's Participation

BACKGROUND Participation and Environment Measure Plus (PEM+) is a guide that is compatible with the YC-PEM and may expedite care plan development and strengthen a patient’s engagement in discussions and decisions about their values, needs, and desires that shape meaningful care (ie, patient-centered care). OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine the feasibility of a stepwise process for building on a baseline assessment of young children's participation in activities to develop a care plan relevant to pediatric rehabilitation. METHODS A cross-sectional descriptive study design was employed using qualitative methods. Data were collected via Web-based technology and by telephone. Twenty-five caregivers of young children (9 with developmental delays, 16 without delays) and between 1 and 7 years were recruited from a subsample of parents who had previously enrolled in a Web-based validation of a PRO on children’s participation and provided consent for future contact. Each caregiver completed a demographic questionnaire and Young Children’s Participation and Environment Measure (YC-PEM) online, followed by a 20- to 60-min semistructured and audiotaped phone interview to review and build upon PRO results as summarized in an electronic report. Interview data were content coded to the interview guide and reviewed by multiple research staff to estimate feasibility according to stepwise completion rates, perceptions of difficulty in step completion, and perceptions of overall utility. RESULTS Half of the participants in the final study sample (N=25) fully completed a stepwise process of building on their baseline PRO assessment to develop an initial care plan for their child. In most cases, similar stepwise completion rates and trends in the approaches taken for step completion were found regardless of the child’s disability status. However, more parents of children with disabilities reported difficulties in rank ordering their priorities for change and identified child-focused strategies for goal attainment. Nearly 77% (19/25) of users were willing to use the process to develop and communicate intervention priorities and strategies with professionals, family, and friends. CONCLUSIONS Results informed revisions to the care planning guide before usability and feasibility testing of an initial Web-based prototype that is now underway.

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