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Evaluation of educational school meal programs in Gyeonggi province, South Korea

  • Lee, Youngmi;Kim, Oksun;Lee, Uiok;Kwon, Sooyoun
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • v.50 no.1
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    • pp.111-119
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    • 2017
  • Purpose: School meal programs should be part of the educational process to promote good eating habits for students. The purpose of this study was to develop an evaluation scale for educational school meal programs and evaluate the achievement level of educational school meal programs using the developed scale. Methods: The evaluation scale for educational school meal programs consisted of 23 items in eight categories and was developed using content validity ratio (CVR) analysis and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) by 15 related experts. The results of a survey on nutrition teachers or dietitians at 91 elementary, middle, and high schools in Gyeonggi province, South Korea were analyzed to evaluate the achievement levels of educational school meal programs. Results: Overall, total average score was 45.7 out of 100, with significant differences among schools (p = 0.005). Elementary schools (51.9) showed a higher average score than middle (41.5) and high schools (37.1). The score for the category of regular nutrition and dietary education was the lowest (5.7 out of 33.7). In addition, school meal environment (5 out of 10), educational activities through school meal time (9.2 out of 19), and extra-curricular experiential activities (3.5 out of 10) also showed inadequate levels. Conclusion: The results show that the overall level of educational school meal programs is not adequate and needs to be improved, especially at middle and high schools. Government support polices need to be implemented to encourage educational activities related to school meal programs.

Mumps Transmission Control Status and Inapparent Infection Rate among Middle and High School Students during the 2007-2008 Mumps Outbreak in Daegu (중고등학생의 볼거리 전파관리 현황과 불현성 감염률: 2007-2008 대구 볼거리 유행을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Kyo-Hyun;Kim, Chang-Hwi;Choi, Bo-Youl;Go, Un-Yeong;Lee, Dong-Han;Ki, Mo-Ran
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • v.42 no.6
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    • pp.408-415
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    • 2009
  • Objectives : This study was performed to investigate the mumps transmission control status and inapparent infection rate among middle and high school students in Daegu City during a mumps outbreak. Methods : Nine schools (two middle schools and seven high schools), which reported a number of mumps cases between 2007 and 2008 were selected for investigation. During March-May 2008, a standard questionnaire was distributed to gather information about case identification, instructed isolation measure, isolation status of mumps cases and related factors, and outdoor activities of nonisolated mumps case. Inapparent infection rate was estimated by serum mumps IgM and IgG antibodies status and self-reported mumps symptoms in three of the nine schools. Results : Among 2,560 respondents, more than half of students answered that they did not receive instructions in mumps transmission control measures during the outbreak. Among the 327 mumps cases identified by the questionnaire, 131 cases (40.1%) were considered as isolated and the isolation rates were significantly different among schools, grades, and gender. Of the non-isolated cases, 88.3% continued attending school. Inapparent mumps infection rates were between 56.3% and 70.2%. Conclusions : Mumps transmission control was inadequate to control the mumps outbreak. Although high inapparent infection rate would mitigate the transmission control effect of case isolation, this measure is fundamental for infection control. The reasons of this inadequate status need to be explored to develop an effective intervention strategy.

A Study on the Use and Extention of Native Species of Trees through the Field Survey of Present Status of Landscape -The Case Study on 38 Elementary, Middle and Schools in Iri city- (학교 조경수목 직재현황 조사를 통한 향토수종 이용 확대에 관한 연구 -이리시 초.中고등학교 38개교를 대상으로-)

  • 박영수;심경구
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.31-50
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    • 1993
  • This study was conducted to investigate the plants status of the woody landscape plants species of 38 elementary, middle, and high school in Iri city, and to obtain some fundamental information for development and use of native species of trees. The results are summarized as follows: 1. Landscape plants species of 38 elementary, middle and high school in Iri city was 55 families, 164 species, and 85, 045 trees and the average of landscape plants species of 17 elementary schools was 50.5 families, 3, 010 trees, on the other hand, middle and high school was 42.4 families, 1, 609 trees. 2. Plants species by type was Deciduous Broadleaved Tree 32.9%, Deciduous Broadleaved Shrub 25.6%, Evergreen Coniferous Tree 14.6%, Evergreen Broadleaved Shrub 9.7%, Vine 4.8%. Evergreen Trees on the other hand, according to the utilization rate 'others' was 32.2%. 3. The rate of plants species of the Evergreen Trees to the Deciduous (except Vine and 'others') was 34:66. on the other hand, rate of quantity was 50.5:49.5 and the rate of the trees to the shrubs(except Vine and 'others') was 58:42. to the plants species and to the quantity of the number of trees was 25.9:74.1. 4. Plants species of fruit plants of 38 elementary, middle and high school in Iri city was 31 species to the 164 species. The rate of frequency was Poncirus trifoliata 27.8%, Lycium chinense 25.1%, Ginkgo biloba 16.7%, to the quantity of the number of trees, fruit plants was 2, 605 trees to the 85, 045 trees and the frequency was 3%. 5. School trees and flowers of 38 elementary, middle and high school in Iri city were appointed 17 elementary school, on the other hand, middle and high schools were only 4 middle and high schools. Plants species of the best of frequency school tree was Zelkova serrata and school flower was Rosa spp.. 6. The rate of the native species to the introduced species was 73.8:26.2. on the other hand, the rate of quantity by the number of trees was 84.7:15.3 to the type, the rate of frequency of plants of native species Evergreen trees was Thuja orientalis, deciduous was Ginkgo biloba, Vine was Wisteria floribunda and 'others' was Sasa borealis. on the other hand, to the introduced species, Evergreen Trees was Juniperus chinensis. Deciduous Trees was Metasequoia glyptostroboides, and Vine was Vitis labrusca and 'others' was Phyllostachys pubescens. 7. As the fundament of the results of above the optimum selecting of woody landscape plants according to native species of trees was 29 families, 58 species. on the basis of 30 points, 28 points was 8 species Ginkgo biloba, Ulmus davidiana var. japonica, Parthenocissus tricuspidata, Elaeagnus umbellata, Fraxinus rhynchophylla, Weigela subsessilis, Koelreuteria paniculata, Lonicera japonica, 26 points was 27 species Thuja orientalis, Zelk ova serrata, Euonymus japonica etc., and 24 points was 23 species Populus tomen tiglandulosa, Juglans sinensis, Sophora japonica etc..

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A Study on the Facilities Utilization of Middle and High Integrated Schools and the Agenda in Rural Area (농촌지역(農村地域) 중(中)·고통합운영학교(高統合運營學校) 실태조사연구(實態調査硏究)와 의제(議題))

  • Jung, Jinju;Choi, Hyoseung
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2002
  • The integrated school has an expectation of the total education environment in which has some problems as regional, emotional, teaching treatment, establishment equipment part because of the based relative establishments are abolished. The expectations are the educating effective rising, the reduce of the responsibility of the teacher, a smooth teacher placing and saving the educating estimate. As the new education course propulsion is raising the school and students discretion and expanding the way of educating, being close to the course of studies, the integrated operation is earnestly needed and such as these versatile background the small schools will keep on getting integrated. So, in this paper I'll object the need and purpose of the integrate operation and show the integrated schools that are now in use. Investigate about actual condition of the integrated school, so after these research I've concluded these things below about the integrated school operating.

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An Study on the Application of CPTED for Safer Schools (안전한 학교조성을 위한 CPTED 적용방안 연구)

  • Kang, Seok-Jin;Park, Mi-Rang
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.45-56
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this study is to suggest the application method of CPTED for safer schools. For the evaluation of the school safety, we invented the school survey checklist based on the principles of CPTED such as natural surveillance, access control, maintenance, and activity support. The checklist is consisted of three parts of schools including boundary, outside of the building, and inside of the building. For the field survey of schools, the 30 schools(elementary, middle, and high school) were selected in Seoul and Kyong-gi area as the crime rate. The result of this study shows the safety score for the most of schools were not satisfied. In addition, we realized the diverse strategies to enhance the school safety should be applied to schools in terms of CPTED. The detailed findings and policy implications will be discussed in the context.

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A Study of Cognitions and Attitudes of Elementary, Middle and High School Students Concerning School Environmental Sanitation (초, 중등학교 학생들의 학교환경위생에 대한 인식과 태도에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Sang-Bok;Lee, Hong-Sung;Kim, Yoon-Shin
    • Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.177-186
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    • 2001
  • This study was conducted to contribute to the basic data for decisions on environment policy improvement in health promotion, and school sanitation for students in elementary, middle and high schools, by analysing their cognitions and attitudes toward school environmental sanitation. This study was carried out with 1200 male and female students in elementary, middle and high schools in industrial, residential and heavy traffic areas for one month, from July 10 to August 11, 2000. The results of the survey follows. The most serious environmental problems in schools are the toilets, quality of drinking water and the classroom conditions. As for the priority areas for improvement, toilets topped the list followed by the classroom environment, and then by the quality of drinking water. Lack of administrative and financial support, the headmasters' disinterest, lack of interest by the students and parents, lack of awareness among teachers and insufficient effort were cited as the main reasons.

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Nurse's Image:Perceived by Students of Elementary, Middle and High Schools in Taegru, Korea (대구지역 초.중.고등학생의 간호사 이미지에 관한 조사)

  • 허금희;이병숙
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.157-173
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    • 1999
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the image of nurse perceived by students of elementary. middle and high schools in Taegu. Korea. Also the details for establishing the image were analyzed. The subjects of this study were 1.119 students from elementary. middle and high schools in Taegu. Data were collected from July 1. to July 16. 1998 and analyzed with Frequency. X 2-test. t-test. ANOVA. and Stepwise Multiple Regression in SPSS 7.5. The results of this study were as follows; (1) There was a significant difference in the nurse's image among the three groups(F= 168.42. p= .000). and the elementary students had the most positive image among the groups. (2) There was a significant difference in the nurse's image between male andfemale students. and the male students had more positive image(t=3.20. p = .001) than female students. (3) The experiences of hospitalization. books. and mass media affected on establishing the image of nurse, and experienced students had more positive image than those who was not. (4) 22.3% of the nurse's image was explained by the educational years. (5) The students who could distinguish between nurses and nurse aids, who had a nurse in their family, and who had experiences of nurse by TV had more positive image than those who had not. The students who had experiences of family member's hospitalization had more negative image than those who had not.

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Assessment of the Indoor Air Quality at Schools in Ulsan (울산지역 학교의 실내공기질 평가)

  • Jung, Jong-Hyeon;Seo, Bo-Sun;Ju, Dong-Jin;Park, Man-Chul;Shon, Byung-Hyun;Phee, Young-Gyu
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.36 no.6
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    • pp.472-479
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the concentration of indoor air pollutants at 63 elementary schools, 41 middle schools and 51 high schools in Ulsan from the beginning of May to the end of December, 2008. To assess the indoor air quality of the various classrooms, the 8 indoor air pollutants such as $CO_2$, CO, $NO_2$, $O_3$, $PM_{10}$, TVOCs, HCHO and TBC were measured and analyzed. The mean concentrations of $PM_{10}$ and TBC in the elementary schools were significantly higher than those of middle and high schools (p < 0.01). For the HCHO, the multi-use practice rooms showed an average 1.5 times higher than general classrooms. In schools located in urban areas, the concentrations of CO, $O_3$, $PM_{10}$, HCHO and TBC were lower than in the vicinity of industrial complexes. The exceeding rate of the school air quality maintenance limits in the 6 air pollutants by law were 6.7%, 3.5%, 1.7%, 18.2%, 13.0% and 18.4% for $CO_2$, $NO_2$, $O_3$, $PM_{10}$, HCHO and TBC, respectively. Based on these results $PM_{10}$ and TBC have to be in the order of priority of need to improve the classroom air quality in elementary school of Ulsan.

A study of the management and the condition of the Laboratory Facilities for Technology Education in the middle schools of Seoul (중학교(中學校) 기술실(技術室)(실험.실습실(實驗.實習室)) 시설.설비(施設.設備) 및 운영(運營) 실태(實態) 조사(調査) 연구(硏究) - 서울특별시 중학교(中學校)를 중심(中心)으로 -)

  • Lee, Sang-Hyuk;Kim, Jong-Bok
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.25-35
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    • 2001
  • This study investigated technology education, laboratory management and facilities in middle schools with the goal of finding problems. Ninety-six randomly selected schools and questionnaire was done to the teachers of 84 schools which have laboratory. Five of these schools received on-site inspections. The results of study are as follows : 1) 12.5% of schools have no laboratory. The average laboratory has less than 50% of the necessary equipment for total operations. laboratories are used an average of once or twice per two time frame. 2) 80%of the laboratories are located at the end of a row of regular class rooms. The most common laboratory style is classroom plus hallway($90m^2$) style. 77% of laboratories have a single entrance. 3) 69% of teachers reported the worktable arrangement to be inconvenience. 68% of the schools have 9 worktables per laboratory. 38% say the worktables are not wide enough and 36% said they were appropriate. Table dimensions range from $95{\sim}110cm$ in width and from $210{\sim}225cm$ in length. 65% of the teachers say table height is low with a range from $76{\sim}82cm$. 86% of the teachers say that the height of chair is low and the range of its measurement is from $37{\sim}47cm$. 84% of the teachers points out that laboratory is poorly lighted.

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Distribution and Characteristics of Heavy Metals in the Fallout Dust Deposits at the Middle and High Schools of Some Cities in South Korea (우리나라 일부도시의 중 . 고등학교에서 강하분진으로 형성된 축적분진에 함유된 중금속의 분포와 특성에 대한 연구)

  • 이진헌;민병연
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.21-27
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the distribution and characteristics of heavy metals in the fallout dust deposits at the middle and high schools. We collected the samples at 60 schools in Kongju, Incheon and Daejeon on from September to November, 2001, and analyzed Cadmium(Cd), Copper(Cu), Lead(Pb) and Zinc(Zn) from them. Zn was the highest level as 551 $\pm$ 79.9 ppm, and the next order were Pb, Cu, and Cd as 146.0 $\pm$ 15.2 ppm, 98.7 $\pm$ 14.4 ppm and 5.21 $\pm$ 0.76 ppm, respectively. The rates of schools exceeding the soil environmental standards were 56.3% in Cd, 53.3% in Zn, 51.5% in Pb, and 31.7% in Cu, respectively. Cd and Pb were the highest levels at schools in Daejeon as 6.30 $\pm$ 0.87 ppm and 171 $\pm$ 26.1 ppm, respectively. Cu and Zn were the highest levels at schools in Incheon as 176.2 $\pm$ 55.8 ppm and 919.8 $\pm$ 185.7 ppm, respectively. At Incheon, Cu and Zn levels were significantly higher than Kongju(p=0.04l), and Daejeon(p=0.016), respectively. Total pollution index(PI) of heavy metals was 1.51 $\pm$ 0.16. PI was 2.00 $\pm$ 0.51 on Incheon, 1.50 $\pm$ 0.13 on Daejeon, and 0.92 $\pm$ 0.24 on Kongju. Correlations were 0.675 (p<0.05) between Cu and Cd, 0.663(p<0.05) between Cu and Zn, and 0.477 between Cd and Pb. In conclusion, Among heavy metals in the fallout dust deposits at schools, Cu and Zn were the highest levels at Incheon, Cd and Pb were the highest levels at Daejeon.