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Environmental Health Survey of Secondary Schools in Ardabil City and Comparison with National Standards and Indicators
in 2018
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A Rastgoo   , H* Aghazadeh Pir * |
| Islamic Azad University of Ardabil |
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Abstract: (1669 Views) |
Background & objectives: School environment health is one of the factors affecting the health of students and their educational status. The aim of this study was to evaluate the health status of secondary schools in Ardabil and compare it with national standards and indices.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional descriptive study which was conducted in all secondary schools of Ardabil (70 schools) in 2018. Data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS software and descriptive statistics.
Results: The results showed that the surveyed schools, in some of the indices, are far from national standards of environmental safety and health. Some of schools did not have safe electrical wiring, and some outlets lacked safety caps. The buffet of 27 schools was also not satisfactory (38.6%) regard to windows wired net and in 26 schools, 37.1% of the windows overlooking the outside had not wired net.
Conclusion: According to the results of this study, the environmental health of secondary schools in Ardabil city did not comply with national standards and indices in some cases. Therefore, serious attention should be paid to improve school health standards.
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| Keywords: Environmental Health of Schools, Indicators and Standards of the Country |
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Type of Study: Research |
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Received: 2020/11/16 | Accepted: 2020/10/1 | Published: 2020/10/1
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