To our readers, As part of our commitment to keep you up to date on legislation, federal programs, court decisions and private sector actions that affect your work with children, we publish InFocus, an in-depth look at emerging issues in school-based health and health care. Written by long-time ejournal editor Virginia Robinson, issues of InFocus explore current topics in school health. We invite you to contribute your own thoughts and look forward to hearing from you.
Julia Graham Lear, Ph.D.Director, The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools 2007Issue 1: Adolescents and STDs (5/25/07) 2006Issue 1: Body Mass Index for Children (5/03/06) 2005 Issue 2: The Autistic Child (8/11/05)Issue 1: Children in Immigrant Families (2/25/05)
2004 Issue 2: Bullying—Is It Part of Growing Up, or Part of School Violence? (12/15/04)Issue 1: Nutrition and Obesity—What’s Ahead for School Food? (2/27/04)
2003 Issue 2: What's Ahead in Medicaid for Children? (4/13/03) Issue 1: The Other Health Privacy Law: What FERPA Requires of Schools (1/13/03)
2002 Issue 5: Adolescent Depression and Mental Health Services (11/14/02) Issue 4: Safeguarding Individual Health Privacy: A Review of HIPAA Regulations (8/27/02) Issue 3: Debate Begins on Smallpox Vaccination (5/12/02) Issue 2: Will Congress Have a Better IDEA? (4/12/02) Issue 1: Supreme Court Takes on Issue of School Drug Testing (3/27/02)