USING E-TOOLS FOR SCHOOL HEALTH PROMOTION

Shobana Raghupathy

2011

Abstract

Our purpose is to outline the potential use of E-Tools for data collection and monitoring for school health purposes. We discuss evidence on the feasibility of such E-Tools in school settings across the United States, and will discuss issues of usability, confidentiality, and costs. Such E-tools can be extended to many school health efforts, particularly areas of mental health, eating disorders and obesity. Drawing on our experience developing such web-based assessments, we will also lay out design considerations for such E-tools that are focused on drug prevention.

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Raghupathy S. (2011). USING E-TOOLS FOR SCHOOL HEALTH PROMOTION . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT - Volume 1: INNOV, ISBN 978-989-8425-67-6, pages 99-102. DOI: 10.5220/0004472300990102


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@conference{innov11,
author={Shobana Raghupathy},
title={USING E-TOOLS FOR SCHOOL HEALTH PROMOTION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT - Volume 1: INNOV,},
year={2011},
pages={99-102},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004472300990102},
isbn={978-989-8425-67-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT - Volume 1: INNOV,
TI - USING E-TOOLS FOR SCHOOL HEALTH PROMOTION
SN - 978-989-8425-67-6
AU - Raghupathy S.
PY - 2011
SP - 99
EP - 102
DO - 10.5220/0004472300990102