Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Sep 2010
School health education programs in Crete: evaluation of behavioural and health indices a decade after initiation.
To assess the long-term effectiveness of a school-based health education intervention program 10 years after its initiation. ⋯ This program appears to improve children's health and decrease risk factors for chronic diseases. If these positive effects are maintained in the forthcoming decades, the risk of chronic diseases may well be reduced.