Sentences with phrase «school health indicators»

In cooperation with the IUHPE and other organisations, the ISHN organises a series of webinars on different aspects of school health indicators.

Not exact matches

BMI is only one indicator, and not an entirely sound one, of health in children; and I think that using it as a measurement of good nutrition work in schools is a red herring.

Young children in deep poverty, whose family income is below 50 percent of the federal poverty line, fare even worse on health and development indicators than children in poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Hhealth and development indicators than children in poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public HealthHealth.

«Unfortunately, greater depression and anxiety are associated with higher BMI and greater waist circumference, both indicators of obesity, as well as engaging in less physical activity and having less favorable indicators of glycemic control,» said Darla Kendzor, Ph.D., principal investigator and assistant professor at the UTHealth School of Public Health Dallas Regional Campus.

Co-author Martin McKee, Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «For five years, policies to address the financial crisis have focussed almost entirely on economic indicators.

«What we found is that negative perceptions on aging are definitely significantly related to [Alzheimer's] disease indicators,» said study lead author Becca Levy, an associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Conn..

(The light is sort of a cross between the old - school Sam Fisher stealth indicator and the Dead Space health meter.)

David Armstrong continued: «Identifying two indicators - emotional intelligence and social skills - and mapping these to the Achieving Schools Theory of Change, is an important first step in measuring the longer term outcomes of the programme, such as reduced risk of antisocial behaviour and spending time in prison and reduced risk of mental ill - health and long - term illness.

Sensitive data a school may hold includes health records, including genetic and biometric data collected from fingerprint authorised library or cafeteria access; classification of ethnicity, and religious indicators.

Based at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, SDP is releasing a set of three Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs) today that challenge common assumptions about college - going patterns in U.S. school districts and provide deeper insight into the health and performance of school districts.

Inner - city neighborhoods are where all these dynamics interact, the study points out, and in neighborhoods with poverty rates at or above 40 percent, higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, and crime, and lower rates on cognitive and verbal skill tests and health indicators among school - age children continue.

These «predictive» or «formative» indicators include in - school factors such as strong classroom assessment and professional development for teachers, and out of school factors such as health care, housing, nutrition, and availability of high - quality pre-school; whether educators are using information in a reasonable way to improve teaching, learning and school quality; and whether the state and federal governments are providing positive support in these areas.

Just like medical screenings that are brief, easy, reliable indicators of overall health (think blood pressure or body temperature), academic and behavioral screenings indicate the overall «health» of a school, class, or individual child, like when a school conducts vision and hearing screening at the beginning of the school year.

Related resources: The Healthy School Communities Model: Aligning Health & Education in the School Setting (PDF), ASCD's indicators of a whole child approach (PDF), ASCD EDge social network, and the ASCD School Improvement Tool

Most of the time, test scores are treated as ends in themselves, as if they can stand alone as clear indicators of school quality and health.

• Include afterschool and summer program data as an indicator of a school's health.

And although some of the measured academic differences to peers without preschool do shrink over time, there is strong evidence of meaningful, long - term positive impacts of preschool on important indicators including high school graduation, health, employment, crime, and other outcomes.

By comparing fourth - grade literacy outcomes against the experiences and inputs that produced these results — including indicators of health - care and preschool access, family economic well - being, mental - health and child - welfare services, nutrition, and comprehensive school quality — we can identify gaps in how we are serving children and target investments and reforms to those areas with the greatest potential to improve children's long - term life outcomes.

Kronick, among many who called for use of existing data - driven indicators, also said health and fitness results should be used because only when schools take a whole - child approach to education will they reach all students.

In 2005, I surveyed efforts to shift from strictly economic measures of progress, like gross domestic product, to a broader basket of indicators of well - being — everything from access to schools and health care to the quality of the environment.

Specific topics which have been covered in recent conferences include judicial ethics; interpreters; delivering reasons for judgment; assessing credibility; social media; technology and search warrants; managing a provincial offence trial; effectively communicating an oral judgment; risk assessment and indicators of lethality at bail hearings; the Youth Criminal Justice Act; eye - witness identification; conducting pre-trials; specific issues at trials of regulatory offences; fly - in - courts, residential schools; application of Gladue principles; mistrials and bias; accident reconstruction; search warrant issues; domestic violence issues; orders for examination under the Mental Health Act; child apprehension warrants under the Child and Family Services Act; evidentiary issues; discrimination and harassment in the workplace; stress management; and pre-retirement planning.

Following an investigation involving mental health counselors, school personnel and law enforcement who had contact with Cruz, DCF found no indicators of abuse or neglect as alleged.

The county and school district data allowed a broad look at indicators associated with health, family environment, poverty levels, child development, and factors that support literacy and school readiness.

The study examines health and school readiness indicators of 5 year - olds from 30 remote communities, with data from schools, clinics, carers, teachers and community profiles.

Design Options for Home Visiting Evaluation Measurement Brief: Selecting Data Collection Measures for MIECHV Benchmarks (PDF - 393 KB) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (2011) Focuses on the selection and development of performance measures or indicators to achieve an array of goals such as improving maternal and child health, parenting practices, school readiness, and the prevention of child abuse and neglect as they relate to legislatively mandated benchmark Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (2011) Focuses on the selection and development of performance measures or indicators to achieve an array of goals such as improving maternal and child health, parenting practices, school readiness, and the prevention of child abuse and neglect as they relate to legislatively mandated benchmark Health Resources and Services Administration (2011) Focuses on the selection and development of performance measures or indicators to achieve an array of goals such as improving maternal and child health, parenting practices, school readiness, and the prevention of child abuse and neglect as they relate to legislatively mandated benchmark health, parenting practices, school readiness, and the prevention of child abuse and neglect as they relate to legislatively mandated benchmark areas.

High school graduation is also linked to many other important indicators of health and well - being.

These include our compliance - focused MBI (Manage by Information) Report, our MBI + Report for tracking operations and process indicators, and our outcomes - focused MBO (Manage by Outcomes) report, tracking our results in school readiness, family engagement and health.