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Medical Advice for Sick-reported Students (MASS) in intermediate vocational education schools: design of a controlled before-and-after study

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background School absenteeism, including medical absenteeism, is associated with early school dropout and may result in physical, mental, social and work-related problems in later life.
Madelon K Van der Vlis, Marjolein Lugtenberg, Yvonne T.M. Vanneste, Wenda Berends, Wico Mulder, Rienke Bannink, Amy Van Grieken, Hein Raat, Marlou L.A. de Kroon   +8 more
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Reasons for absenteeism in rural primary schools in two Colombian municipalities

Revista Salud Bosque, 2020
Background: School absenteeism is a considerable problem generally related to higher dropout rates, poor academic achievement and school lag. This study determined the frequency and causes of overall and illness-related absenteeism of students in rural ...
Sandra Lucía Vargas, María Inés Matiz, Victor Alberto Olano, Diana Sarmiento-Senior, Juan Felipe Jaramillo, Neal Alexander, Audrey Lenhart, Thor Axel Stenström, Hans J Overgaard   +8 more
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Projected geographic disparities in healthcare worker absenteeism from COVID-19 school closures and the economic feasibility of child care subsidies: a simulation study

BMC Medicine, 2020
Background School closures have been enacted as a measure of mitigation during the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It has been shown that school closures could cause absenteeism among healthcare workers with dependent children, but ...
Elizabeth T. Chin, Benjamin Q. Huynh, Nathan C. Lo, Trevor Hastie, Sanjay Basu   +4 more
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Worker absence and shirking: evidence from matched teacher-school data [PDF]

We utilise a unique matched teacher-school data set of absenteeism records to quantify shirking behaviour in primary and secondary schools. Shirking behaviour is shown to vary systematically across schools, and hence schools are characterised as either ...
Colin Green, G Leeves, S Bradley
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Bullying and school attendance: a case study of senior high school students in Ghana [PDF]

, 2010
This paper focuses on senior high school students and the ways that bullying affects their school attendance. Selected items from the 2008 Ghana Global School-based Student Health Survey are analysed first to explore the relationships between the ...
Bosumtwi-Sam, Cynthia, Dunne, Máiréad, Owusu, Andrew, Sabates, Ricardo   +3 more
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Addressing medical absenteeism in pre-vocational secondary students: effectiveness of a public health intervention, using a quasi-experimental design

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background Students’ health and school absenteeism affect educational level, with adverse effects on their future health. This interdependence is reflected in medical absenteeism.
Yvonne T. M. Vanneste, Jolanda J. P. Mathijssen, Ien A. M. van de Goor, Carin M. C. Rots – de Vries, Frans J. M. Feron   +4 more
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The effect of seizure on school attendance among children with epilepsy: a follow-up study at the pediatrics neurology clinic, Tikur Anbessa specialized hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

BMC Pediatrics, 2020
Background Epilepsy is the most common chronic neurological disease seen in Pediatrics Neurology Units in many developing countries. It affects negatively on school attendance and academic performance.
Oumer Hassen, Ayalew Beyene
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Typologies, teacher contact, and family consequences of school absenteeism in Japan

Frontiers in Education
School absenteeism (futōkō) has increased substantially in Japan over the past decade, yet empirical research based on students who are actually experiencing prolonged school absence remains limited.
Hiromichi Kato, Masayoshi Ota, Koki Kinoshita, Yuejiang Hou, Fumika Murai   +4 more
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Getting There: Improving Attendance in the Buffalo Public Schools [PDF]

, 2015
High rates of absenteeism in the Buffalo Public Schools (“BPS”) are strongly linked to low academic performance and graduation rates. Several difficult issues contribute to the low attendance in Buffalo, including poverty, segregation, mental and ...
Meyers, Tina, Stern, Rachel
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Healthy school meals and educational outcomes [PDF]

, 2009
This paper provides field evidence on the effects of a diet on educational outcomes, exploiting a campaign lead in the UK in 2004, which introduced drastic changes in the meals offered in the schools of one Borough – Greenwich- shifting from low-budget ...
Belot, Michele, James, Jonathan
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