Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Schools: A companion to the Child...
Over the past decade, the child-friendly schools (CFS) model has emerged as UNICEF’s signature means to advocate for and promote quality education for every girl and boy. Child-friendly schools enable...
View ArticleWater Hauling and Girls’ School Attendance: Some New Evidence from Ghana
In large parts of the world, a lack of home tap water burdens households as the water must be brought to the house from outside, at great expense in terms of effort and time This paper studies how such...
View ArticleThe impact of a school-based safe water and hygiene programme on knowledge...
Safe drinking water and hygiene are essential to reducing Kenya’s diarrhoeal disease burden. A school-based safe water and hygiene intervention in Kenya was evaluated to assess its impact on students’...
View ArticleEffects of Hand Hygiene Campaigns on Incidence of Laboratory-confirmed...
To evaluate the effectiveness of an intensive hand hygiene campaign on reducing absenteeism caused by to influenza-like illness (ILI), diarrhea, conjunctivitis, and laboratory- confirmed influenza, we...
View ArticleThe Effects of Psychosocial Risk and Gender on School Attainment in Guatemala
This study examines the effects of gender and early biological, social, and psychological risk factors on secondary school grade attainment in rural Guatemalan adolescents. The present sample comprised...
View ArticleMalaria and Primary Education: A Cross-country Analysis on Repetition and...
This paper explores the link between P. falciparum malaria– most malaria morbidity and mortality is due to the malignant Plasmodium falciparum -and primary education in terms of school performance on...
View ArticleWeight Gain in the First Two Years of Life Is an Important Predictor of...
Schooling predicts better reproductive outcomes, better long-term health, and increased lifetime earnings. We used data from 5 cohorts (Brazil, Guatemala, India, the Philippines, and South Africa) to...
View ArticleEarly Childhood and Primary Education
While considerable progress has been made in achieving education for all, it continues to be the most disadvantaged who are at the highest risk of educational exclusion, underachievement and early...
View ArticleA National Study of School Effectiveness for Language Minority Studentsí...
Our research from 1985 to 2001 has focused on analyzing the great variety of education services provided for language minority (LM) students in U.S. public schools and the resulting long-term academic...
View ArticleA cluster‐randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of a hand‐...
Intensive handwashing promotion can reduce diarrheal and respiratory disease incidence. To determine whether less intensive, more scalable interventions can improve health, we evaluated a school-based...
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