Journal of School Health articles from May 2005

Journal of School Health archives from May 2005

Integrating service learning into a curriculum to reduce health risks at alternative high schools.
May 1, 2005... Sexual risk behaviors declined among many adolescents in the United States in the past decade, but they remained the same or increased among some groups. (1) Relative to their peers in mainstream schools, youth attending alternative schools...

Models for delivering school-based dental care.
May 1, 2005... The first school-based health center (SBHC) was created in Dallas, Tex, in 1970. In the mid-1990s, 600 SBHCs were operating in the United States. A 50% increase has occurred in school-based health care in the United States since the mid-1990s....

A qualitative study of Mexican American adolescents and depression.
May 1, 2005... Depression represents a serious mental illness, and if left untreated, can progress to the point of becoming life threatening. Depressive disorders are present in a high percentage of Mexican American adolescents. Among the US Mexican American...

Protecting you/protecting me: effects of an alcohol prevention and vehicle safety program on elementary students.(Research Papers)
May 1, 2005... The nation has made considerable progress in reducing underage drinking and its consequences. Youth alcohol consumption has decreased in the past 2 decades, (1) and enacting a minimum legal drinking age of 21 years in all states between 1982...

Adolescent exposure to and perceptions of environmental tobacco smoke.(Research Papers)
May 1, 2005... On average, 1,200 people die each day in America as a consequence of tobacco use. (1) About 150 of these daily deaths occur in nonsmokers who die from exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). (2) Because ETS poses significant health risks...

Let's sell health!(Teaching Techniques)
May 1, 2005... Reaching elementary school children with health education concepts is important because early learning can be reinforced throughout their school years. Comprehensive health education is an important component of the coordinated school health...

Recruitment strategies for the Princeton (Ohio) City School District epidemiological study.(Health Service Applications)
May 1, 2005... Large, school-based, epidemiologic studies represent the cornerstone for obtaining information to understand the natural history of pediatric diseases and the preclinical stages of adult pathology. The increasing complexity of school-based...