Results on school amenities (Table 1) revealed another huge gap in relation to school based hygienic practices.
Moreover, systems such as hospitals and schools need to connect in evidence based practice for effective interventions such as reaching children in their natural settings, designing interventions that fit into these contexts, and working with families and local communities [ 4].
Setting 24 primary healthcare sites in New Zealand (youth clinics, general practices, and school based counselling services).
Expansion of chlamydia testing from clinical practices to school based settings has been shown to increase uptake among adolescents, particularly in boys [ 8- 12].
This study provided an opportunity to examine factors associated with chlamydia testing in a school based screening and previously in clinical practice, and to estimate the chlamydia reservoir in adolescents not seeking testing on their own.
The objectives of this paper were to; i) examine the proportion of adolescents aged 15 20 years in Norway tested in a high school based screening and previously in clinical practice, ii) determine chlamydia prevalence according to testing pattern, and iii) examine demographic and sexual behavioural characteristics associated with school based screening and previous clinic based testing.
Our study aimed to: i) examine the proportions of 15 20 year-olds tested in a high school based screening and previously in clinical practice, ii) determine chlamydia prevalence according to testing pattern, and iii) examine factors associated with testing in the two settings.
Evidence Based Practice (EBP), or evidence based medicine (EBM), has been adopted as a core unit across many medical schools worldwide, with a particular focus in Australian Universities [ 1].
Participants were recruited at 24 sites, including 15 school based counselling services, seven youth clinics, and two general practices from May 2009 to July 2010.
The review identified just four school based interventions to improve the adoption of healthy eating policies or practices in schools and none targeted the adoption of vegetable and fruit initiatives specifically [ 26].
In Sweden the three-year vocational education is school based, except for a minimum of 15 weeks of mandatory practice at a company.
