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Rodriguez, Eunice; Rivera, Diana Austria; Perlroth, Daniella; Becker, Edmund; Wang, Nancy Ewen; Landau, Melinda – Journal of School Health, 2013
Background: With increasing budget cuts to education and social services, rigorous evaluation needs to document school nurses' impact on student health, academic outcomes, and district funding. Methods: Utilizing a quasi-experimental design, we evaluated outcomes in 4 schools with added full-time nurses and 5 matched schools with part-time nurses…
Descriptors: Diseases, School Nurses, Role, Child Health
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Taylor, Z. A.; Sherrill, Claudine – Journal of School Health, 1969
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Change, Children, Curriculum
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Germer, Polly; Price, James H. – Journal of School Health, 1981
The success of a health fair as a source of health education and promoter of healthful behaviors depends to a great extent on the organizational expertise of the sponsor. In order to organize a successful health fair, objectives, target population, location, time, financing, and publicity must be considered. (JN)
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Demonstration Programs, Evaluation Methods, Exhibits
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Hanson, Margaret A.; Levine, Melvine D. – Journal of School Health, 1980
The Brookline Early Education Project (BEEP) is a demonstration model in which a public school system assumes responsibility for the health education of children from birth to five years. This early school health program was designed to work collaboratively with existing health care facilities in the community. (JN)
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education, Family School Relationship
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DeRosis, Helen A. – Journal of School Health, 1969
Parts of this paper have appeared in the American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28, No 2, 1968, under the title "A Preventive Community Psychiatry Project and Its Relationship to Psychoanalytic Principles.
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Consultants, Demonstration Programs, Elementary School Students
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Young, Russell L.; And Others – Journal of School Health, 1988
Results are presented from a study of Project SHOUT, a tobacco-use prevention program which targets sixth and seventh graders. Distinguished from similar programs by its use of college students rather than peer or teacher leaders, Project SHOUT serves as a pilot for a generic tobacco-use prevention program. (IAH)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education, Health Education
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Coyle, Karin; And Others – Journal of School Health, 1996
The Safer Choices program, being tested in Texas and California, is a multicomponent program to change behaviors which lead to infection with HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases or pregnancy. Components include a School Health Promotion Council, curriculum and staff development activities, school environment activities implemented by peer…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Behavior Change, Contraception, Demonstration Programs
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Rose, Barbara L.; Mansour, Mona; Kohake, Kelli – Journal of School Health, 2005
The Cincinnati School Health Demonstration Project was a 3-year collaboration that evaluated school-linked health services in 6 urban elementary (kindergarten to eighth grade) schools. Partners from the Cincinnati Health Department, Cincinnati Public Schools, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and The Health Foundation of Greater…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Educational Facilities, Demonstration Programs, Urban Schools
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Passarelli, Carole – Journal of School Health, 1994
As school health services are broadening, the role and scope of school nursing is changing. The paper describes challenges facing today's school nurses and nurses' roles in new health service delivery models, offering recommendations for improving and expanding school nursing services. Descriptions of several cases and model programs are included.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Child Health, Clinics