Healthier Students Are Better Learners: A Missing Link in School Reforms to Close the Achievement Gap

Journal of School Health

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 593-598

  Basch, Charles E ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Achievement gap; Child and adolescent health; Coordinated school health programs; School reform; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STUDENT; TEACHING; UNITED STATES;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LEARNING; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STUDENTS; TEACHING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052930295     PISSN: 00224391     EISSN: 17461561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-1561.2011.00632.x     Document Type: Article

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