Health and nutritional determinants of school failure
Monography
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| MedCarib
| ID: med-16695
Biblioteca responsável:
TT5
Localização: TT5; WS 115 N9761 1998
ABSTRACT
Education is associated with wide-ranging benefits to both the individual and society. Lockheed and colleagues reviewed the literature on primary education in developing countries and found that education had a positive effect on economic growth...It has been recognised for some time that both the quality of the school and the child's home background have marked effects on school attainment levels. There is now increasing concern that poor health and nutrition might detrimentally affect children's school achievement. This publication addresses to what extent children's health and nutrition contribute to school failure. The conditions considered to be potentially important are the following protein energy malnutrition; iron and iodine deficiency; hunger; sensory impairment due to hearing or visual deficits from any cause including vitamin A deficiency, otitis media, and onchocerciasis; and infections, particularly parasitic infections such as malaria, geohelminth infections such as diarrhea and respiratory infections may also be important. This chapter will briefly review studies that have examined associations between children's school performance or ability and their health and nutrition. Then it will describe two studies we have conducted in Jamaica, one in primary-school children and one in adolescent girls (AU)
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MedCarib
Assunto principal:
Evasão Escolar
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Transtornos da Nutrição Infantil
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Oncocercose Ocular
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Nutrição da Criança
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Jamaica
Limite:
Child
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Caribe ingles
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Jamaica
Idioma:
En
Tipo de documento:
Monography