Local School Wellness Policy as a Means to Advance Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child: Assessing Alignment in Los Angeles County
| Autor: | Elaine S. Lai, Grace Tan, Lauren N. Gase, Megala Sivashanmugam, Tony Kuo, Amelia R. DeFosset |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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business.industry Health Policy media_common.quotation_subject Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Pilot Projects Legislature Health Promotion Public relations Priority areas Los Angeles Child health Education Philosophy Cross-Sectional Studies Whole school Political science Humans Quality (business) Child business School Health Services media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of School Health. 90:127-134 |
| ISSN: | 1746-1561 0022-4391 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/josh.12855 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND District wellness policies provide an avenue to advance the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model. The extent to which wellness policies currently align with WSCC is unclear; to-date, tools have been unavailable to examine this issue. METHODS We reviewed written health-focused policies among 37 school districts in Los Angeles County in 2017 utilizing a 54-item tool designed to examine the quality of policies in the 10 WSCC domains. Descriptive analyses explored overall and domain-specific comprehensiveness and strength; simple negative binomial regression models examined differences in the policy quality and structure by legislated status. RESULTS Approximately half of expected policies were present in wellness policies (mean comprehensiveness score = 52.65, ±18.09) |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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