Background: Rates of obesity have risen disproportionately for ethnic minority youth in the United States. School-based programs may be the most comprehensive and cost-effective way to implement primary prevention in children. In this study we evaluated the effect of a school-based obesity prevention on the outcome of body mass index percentile…

Background: The term "green health promotion" is given to health promotion underpinned by the principles of ecological health and sustainability. Green health promotion is supported philosophically by global health promotion documents such as the 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and the ecological public health movement. Green…

Stresses the importance of parenthood education for school-age parents as well as their classmates. (PB)

The article focuses on the parent role in the education of autistic children, considers problems experienced by families of autistic children, methods of school-parent cooperation, and gains possible through cooperative program development. The program of the Brentwood (California) Center for Educational Therapy is described. (MJB)

This article describes a program initiated by the Boston University School of Graduate Dentistry to provide school children with dental health education and preventive services. (PB)