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Price B. 1957. School health services: A selective review of evaluative studies. Washington, DC: U.S. Children's Bureau, 149 pp. (Children's Bureau publication; no. 362)

Annotation: This report is a critical review of evaluative studies of school health services. The period covered begins with literature from the mid-1800's and extends into the 1950's. Almost all of the studies reviewed concern health services in elementary schools. Topics discussed include the use of statistics as criteria for evaluating programs; survey findings; the use of expert judgment; evaluative studies based on examination of school health services' clients, i.e., school children; and experimental research methods. This report includes references. It is a publication of the U.S. Children's Bureau.

Keywords: Experimental programs, Health statistics, Program evaluation, Quantitative evaluations, Research, Research reviews, School health services

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