In the United States, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius reached a similar verdict last week, saying that large-scale school closings would be ineffective in halting the spread of the virus.
For gun-rights advocates, the argument is fairly straightforward: In the event of another large-scale school shooting, someone -- be it a professor, student or staff member -- is going to want to have a gun in his or her hands to end the nightmare.
Large-scale school health programmes can be effective in reducing preventable diseases through cost-effective interventions.
Nevertheless, the possibility of information bias cannot be excluded in large-scale school-based studies.
These are key characteristics of any successful large-scale school health programme.
This paper presents the study protocol for a large-scale school-based intervention to improve sun protective behaviour in adolescents.
While many countries have policies related to school health, the complexities of implementing large-scale school-based health programmes often lead to a gap between intention and practice.
This paper reports the findings of a large-scale school-based survey in Ireland that investigated the prevalence of DSH and self harm thoughts in 15 17 year olds.
23 This study explored the use of serological indicators collected from a large-scale school-based survey to describe differences in P. falciparum and P. vivax endemicity in a low-transmission setting.
While CDC does not currently recommend large-scale school closure, questions about whether, when, and how to do so are likely to arise in the future, whether for 2009 H1N1 or some other pathogen.
Based on our findings, we strongly believe that if large-scale school children surveys are performed in specific spatial clusters of leprosy in each hyperendemic municipality with well-trained personnel, the detection rate would be much higher.
