Sun Safety Policies in Canadian Elementary Schools: A Comprehensive Scoping Review and Jurisdictional Scan of Canadian Provincial Government Policies
Bibliographic record
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Despite the critical importance of sun protection in childhood for preventing skin cancer, significant gaps exist between provincial health guidelines and education-specific policies regarding sun safety in Canadian elementary schools. OBJECTIVE: To systematically examine the current landscape of sun safety policies and interventions in Canadian elementary education settings and identify gaps between public health recommendations and educational policy implementation. METHODS: We conducted a scoping review of literature published between 2005 and 2025 using 7 databases (Ovid MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL Plus, Scopus, Proquest Education Database, ERIC, and CBCA:Social Sciences) and performed a jurisdictional scan of sun safety policies across 9 Canadian cities, examining provincial, school board, and individual school websites. RESULTS: This scoping review identified limited research on sun safety interventions in Canadian elementary schools, with most studies demonstrating effectiveness of educational programs but highlighting implementation challenges. The jurisdictional scan revealed significant disparities in policy accessibility and clarity across provinces. Public health websites typically provided more comprehensive information, while school-level policies were largely absent or difficult to locate. CONCLUSION: A substantial disconnect exists between provincial health guidelines and education system policies regarding sun safety. Comprehensive, standardized approaches to sun safety policy development and implementation are urgently needed across Canadian elementary schools.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".