Date of Award
7-1933
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
First Advisor
J. Ralph Wells
Keywords
School children -- Health and hygiene -- Kansas -- Frontenac
Abstract
Among the numerous published surveys of health conditions among school children, one finds relatively little data concerning the differences existing among children of American parentage and those of foreign progenitors, while there is still less knowledge available comparing the conditions to be found in the children of various nationalities, living under closely parallel conditions in a single district. In view of this situation, it would seem that a study involving a comparison of the latter type should be a worth while project. such a study could be working out in a district where parents are foreign-born and whose children live in one district under approximately the same external conditions. Under such circumstances the effect of the environment outside the home should be similar for each child, and the part, if any that native traits play in health conditions may be more easily studied. The home conditions must also be considered because these facts play a large part in health problems. whether the health problem is more complicated in a group of children from foreign-born parents than it is among native children and as serious as commonly considered, seems at least worthy of investigation.
Recommended Citation
Gieres, Sister M Walburga, "Health study in a small cosmopolitan community" (1933). Electronic Theses & Dissertations. 631.
https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/etd/631
