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RAYMOND FRANZEN, PH.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1934;47(4):789-798.

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Methods of selection of physical defects among school children have a far-reaching influence on the school health service as a whole. They must be practical and economical, of course, but that is only one way in which they affect the total efficiency. They also have an important bearing on the way the child is viewed by the school medical examiner to whom he is referred and on the type of information that the school nurse takes with her on the follow-up visit. How many of the children who are 7 per cent underweight for height are truly malnourished and how many of those examined are missed by this method? This query involves two sources of inefficiency—selection in error and failure to detect.

Such error of selection has a profound influence on the obligation of the school medical examiner to explain the case and prescribe further study. If the child is . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Research Director, School Health Study, American Child Health Association NEW YORK

Footnotes
This article covers the main points which Dr. Franzen presented in a talk entitled "Some Outcomes from a Study of the Effects of School Health Programs on Children" before the Child Hygiene Section at the last annual meeting of the American Public Health Association.

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