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Canadian after-school care providers’ perceived role promoting healthy lifestyles: a focused ethnography

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background After-school care programs have garnered interest in recent years as the hours of 3:00–6:00 p.m. are an opportune time for children to engage in healthy behaviours, specifically healthy eating and physical activity.
Pierrette H. Elias, Genevieve Montemurro, Lauren Sulz, Brian Torrance, Kate E. Storey   +4 more
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Trajectories of spherical equivalent refraction from grades 1 to 4 in Chinese children

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background The development trajectories of children’s SER remain unknown. This study aimed to characterize spherical equivalent refraction (SER) trajectories during grades 1–4 in Chinese children. Methods This prospective cohort study included 1226 first-
Yanzhi Li, Lan Guo, Jiayu Zhang, Xianghua Tang, Feng Zhao, Yin Hu, Yangfeng Guo, Xueying Du, Xiao Yang, Ciyong Lu   +9 more
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Exchange of information about physical education to support the transition of pupils from primary and secondary school [PDF]

, 2004
The purpose of this study was to identify how information about physical education is exchanged between secondary schools and their respective feeder primary schools, what information is exchanged and how this information is used. A secondary purpose was
Capel, S, Lawrence, J, Zwozdiak-Myers, P
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A study of current practice in liaison between primary and secondary schools in physical education [PDF]

, 2003
The purpose of this study was to investigate current practice in liaison between primary and secondary schools to promote continuity and progression in physical education during the transfer of pupils from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 3 and to identify ...
Capel, S, Lawrence, J, Zwozdiak-Myers, P
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Associations of gestational weight gain with offspring thinness and obesity: by prepregnancy body mass index

Reproductive Health, 2018
Background Previous studies indicated that excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) was positively associated with offspring obesity. Nevertheless, little is known about the effect of GWG on offspring thinness.
Nianqing Wan, Li Cai, Weiqing Tan, Ting Zhang, Jiewen Yang, Yajun Chen   +5 more
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Built environment changes and active transport to school among adolescents: BEATS Natural Experiment Study protocol

BMJ Open, 2020
Introduction Natural experiments are considered a priority for examining causal associations between the built environment (BE) and physical activity (PA) because the randomised controlled trial design is rarely feasible.
Michael Keall, Kirsten Coppell, John C Spence, Sandra Mandic, Debbie Hopkins, Enrique García Bengoechea, Antoni Moore, Susan Sandretto, Christina Ergler, Anna Rolleston, Gavin Kidd, Gordon Wilson   +11 more
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Les collèges de proximité en Côte d’Ivoire

Revue Internationale d’Éducation de Sèvres, 2019
Côte d’Ivoire, with the support of its technical and financial partners, has undertaken an ambitious programme of construction of small rural high schools.
Kouyate Idrissa
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The implementation of the progression policy in secondary schools of the Limpopo province in South Africa

South African Journal of Education, 2021
Globally, policy implementation in the education system has been found to be a challenging area of development. The South African education system is no exception to the ineffective implementation of policies.
Makobo Lydia Mogale, Mpho Calphonia Modipane   +1 more
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Spatial distribution and development of educational institutions in different historical periods: a Hungarian case study [PDF]

Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 2014
The present paper studies the spatial distribution of elementary and secondary schools in a particular Hungarian settlement, Debrecen, the second largest city of country.
Gyula Dézsi, Gábor Kozma, Károly Teperics   +2 more
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Real-time speech-to-text translation in Spanish secondary classrooms: a mixed-methods study on refugee student inclusion

Research in Learning Technology
Following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, thousands of Ukrainian children enrolled in schools across Europe. In Spain, most lacked prior knowledge of Spanish.
Ricardo Scott, Clara Vila, Daniel Pérez-Alcaraz, Olga Vaello, Jose Manuel Pérez-Torres, Ricardo Ibanco-Cañete, Jorge Brotons-Mas, Cristina de-la-Peña, María José Álvarez-Alonso, Teresa Pozo-Rico   +9 more
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