Relationship between health risk and school attendance among adolescents

Background/Purpose: The prevalence of childhood obesity and school truancy are contemporary health issues, as millions of children do not attend school, when required. The purpose of this study was to determine the association between intent to be physically active, aerobic fitness, and school absences. Methods: Data from 1907 adolescents from the United States were collected during physical education. Participants completed a valid Theory of Planned Behavior survey and the FitnessGram, with the demographic data obtained from school records. Linear regressions controlling for gender, grade, free/reduced lunch, body mass index, and intent to be physically active were calculated. Results: Adolescents who had positive intentions to be physically active (P \u3c .001), scored higher on the Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run (PACER) test (P = .006), and ran faster in the mile (P \u3c .001) had fewer unexcused absences compared to students who had negative intentions and lower fitness. Discussion: Adolescents with higher aerobic fitness had fewer unexcused school absences, which suggests that cardiovascular health may be a valuable contributor in decreasing adolescent health and behavior risk, specifically truancy and out-of-school suspensions. Translation to Health Education Practice: Whole-of-school approaches that align physical activities and educational experiences can help adolescents understand the benefits of physical fitness as a prevention strategy

Fluorescence Imaging of Individual Ions and Molecules in Pressurized Noble Gases for Barium Tagging in 136^{136}Xe

The imaging of individual Ba$^{2+}$ ions in high pressure xenon gas is one possible way to attain background-free sensitivity to neutrinoless double beta decay and hence establish the Majorana nature of the neutrino. In this paper we demonstrate selective single Ba$^{2+}$ ion imaging inside a high-pressure xenon gas environment. Ba$^{2+}$ ions chelated with molecular chemosensors are resolved at the gas-solid interface using a diffraction-limited imaging system with scan area of 1$\times$1~cm$^2$ located inside 10~bar of xenon gas. This new form of microscopy represents an important enabling step in the development of barium tagging for neutrinoless double beta decay searches in $^{136}$Xe, as well as a new tool for studying the photophysics of fluorescent molecules and chemosensors at the solid-gas interface

Fluorescence imaging of individual ions and molecules in pressurized noble gases for barium tagging in 136Xe

The imaging of individual Ba2+ ions in high pressure xenon gas is one possible way to attain background-free sensitivity to neutrinoless double beta decay and hence establish the Majorana nature of the neutrino. In this paper we demonstrate selective single Ba2+ ion imaging inside a high-pressure xenon gas environment. Ba2+ ions chelated with molecular chemosensors are resolved at the gas-solid interface using a diffraction-limited imaging system with scan area of 1 × 1 cm2 located inside 10 bar of xenon gas. This form of microscopy represents key ingredient in the development of barium tagging for neutrinoless double beta decay searches in 136Xe. This also provides a new tool for studying the photophysics of fluorescent molecules and chemosensors at the solid-gas interface to enable bottom-up design of catalysts and sensors

Level of knowledge of Philhealth members in Nasugbu, Batangas to the sdg-related benefit entitlements of the national health insurance program

The National Health Insurance Act of 1995 or RA 7875 constituted the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation with the aim of ensuring Filipinos accessible, affordable, available, and acceptable healthcare. However, the corporation still encounters conflicts such as the low utilization rate of benefits due to the lack of knowledge causing universal health care to remain out of reach to some areas of the population, particularly in rural populations. With that, the researchers studied the population of Nasugbu, Batangas using an online survey with the aim of providing a description of the level of knowledge of PhilHealth members towards the SDG Related Benefits and as well as to categorize the data gathered from the respondents based on their age group, sex, type of PhilHealth membership, years as a PhilHealth member, and educational attainment. The study follows a scoring system based on the Likert scale. The derivation of the description of the level of knowledge of philhealth members will be taken from the interpretation of the scoring system. These interpretations include “not at all knowledgeable” corresponding to 1-20% of the total score, “slightly knowledgeable” for 21-40% of the total score, “moderately knowledgeable” for 41- 60% of the total score, “very knowledgeable” for 61-80% of the total score and “extremely knowledgeable” for 80-100% of the total score. The study will utilize the measures of central tendency and the frequency distribution table as statistical treatments. Results of the study show that Philhealth Members in Nasugbu are “slightly knowledgeable” towards the SDG Related Benefits of Philhealth with an average score of 14/35 in the administered online test. The result of the study is an indication that improvements must be made by Philhealth towards their information dissemination to members, especially to their SDG benefit entitlements