ReviewPublic health reviews2021
Reviewing School Uniform through a Public Health Lens: Evidence about the Impacts of School Uniform on Education and Health.
Review in Public health reviews, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Is the type of school uniform linked with physical activity levels and physical fitness in schoolchildren? A systematic review covering 1,098,972 children and adolescents.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Pooled it
- From uniform to belonging: how fashion imagery of school uniforms shapes students' psychological capital via social identification.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Addressing Structural Violence in School Policies: A Call to Protect Children's Safety and Well-Being.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2025Article
- Exploring the impact of a daily sport uniform policy in primary schools: a qualitative study with students and teachers.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Adolescents' physical activity during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic: a qualitative study exploring the experiences of young people living in the context of socioeconomic deprivation.BMC public health · 2024Article
- A comparative study between traditional and sports school uniforms on cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness and waist-height-to-ratio in adolescents.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Which one? A comparative study of traditional and sports uniforms on academic achievement, cognitive performance, playtime, bullying, and discrimination in adolescents: The Cogni-Action Project.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
This study uses a public health lens to review evidence about the impacts of wearing a school uniform on students' health and educational outcomes. It also reviews the underlying rationales for school uniform use, exploring historical reasons for uniform use, as well as how questions of equity, human rights, and the status of children as a vulnerable group are played out in debates over school uniforms. The literature identified indicates that uniforms have no direct impact on academic performance, yet directly impact physical and psychological health. Girls, ethnic and religious minorities, gender-diverse students and poorer students suffer harm disproportionately from poorly designed uniform policies and garments that do not suit their physical and socio-cultural needs. Paradoxically, for some students, uniform creates a barrier to education that it was originally instituted to remedy. The article shows that public health offers a new perspective on and contribution to debates and rationales for school uniform use. This review lays out the research landscape on school uniform and highlights areas for further research.
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