Journal of School Health articles from August 2003

Journal of School Health archives from August 2003

Differences in worldwide tobacco use by gender: findings from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey. (Special Report).
August 1, 2003... Tobacco use is one of the chief preventable causes of death in the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) attributes 4.9 million deaths a year to tobacco, a figure expected to rise to more than 10 million deaths a year by 2030. (1)...

Children with diabetes: perceptions of supports for self-management at school.
August 1, 2003... Diabetes is a common chronic illness for children, with a prevalence rate of about 1 in every 400 to 500 children. More than 125,000 youth under age 19 have diabetes, and about 13,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. (1-3) School staff may...

Integrating school-based and therapeutic conflict management models at schools.
August 1, 2003... Conflict inherently occurs in life. (1) Managing conflict constructively and developing conflict resolution procedures encourages the development of values, attitudes, knowledge, and civic standards. (2,3) Schools can teach students to approach...

Association of age at onset of cigarette and alcohol use with subsequent smoking and drinking patterns among Japanese high school students. (Research Papers).
August 1, 2003... Cigarettes and alcohol are the substances most commonly used by Japanese adolescents, though minors are prohibited by law from smoking and drinking. In nationwide surveys of Japanese adolescents, the percentage of seventh graders who had ever...

Developing a school functioning index for middle schools. (Research Papers).
August 1, 2003... Despite widespread recognition of schools' role in the healthy development of youth, surprisingly little research has examined the relationships between schools' overall functioning and the health-related behavior of students. Schools should...

Using health infomercials to develop media literacy skills. (Teaching Techniques).
August 1, 2003... Teaching Techniques Children's and adolescents' exposure to media is substantial and persistent. Typically, adolescents view an average of almost three hours of television and 6 hours and 32 minutes of assorted combined media per day. (1)...

Dental disadvantage among the disadvantaged: double jeopardy for rural school children. (Health Service Applications).
August 1, 2003... Dental care represents a major unmet health need in children in the United States. (1) The US Surgeon General reports that "dental caries is the single most common chronic disease of childhood, occurring five to eight times as frequently as...