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International Journal of Nursing & Clinical Practices Volume 9 (2022), Article ID 9:IJNCP-365, 6 Pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2394-4978/2022/365
Original Article
Benefits of Implementing School Health Checkups in Cambodia: A Comparison between the Capital and Its Suburbs

Hiroko Shimizu*, Tetsuo Toge, Hideaki Nonomura and Hoshina Uehara

School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, 1750-1, Ikenobe, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa prefecture, 761-0322, Japan
Prof. Hiroko Shimizu, School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, 1750-1, Ikenobe, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa prefecture, 761-0322, Japan; E-mail: shimizu.hiroko@kagawa-u.ac.jp
02 October 2022; 11 October 2022; 13 October 2022
Shimizu H, Toge T, Nonomura H, Uehara H (2022) Benefits of Implementing School Health Checkups in Cambodia: A Comparison between the Capital and Its Suburbs. Int J Nurs Clin Pract 9: 365. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/2394-4978/2022/365
This survey is part of a project carried out by Kagawa University in collaboration with the Kagawa Prefecture, JICA, and the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of Cambodia. The project is the 2016 JICA grassroots technical cooperation contract project “Project for building a school health room system for improving hygiene education in Kandal Steung District; 2017–2019.” The survey was carried out by Kagawa University in collaboration with the University of Health Science and Kandal Province, Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of Cambodia. The program “A Project for Global Growth of Medical Technologies, Systems, and Services Through Human Resource Development in 2019” was conducted by the National Center for Global Health and Medicine under the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan. English editing was supported by Enago and the Program to supporting research activities of female researchers by MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology).

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