Chap 6: The School Health Program: A

Component of Community Health

Anita Sego

Spring, 2005
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Chapter Objectives
• Define coordinated school health
program.
• List the ideal members of a school health
team.
• Explain why a school health program is
important.
• Identify the major foundations of a
coordinated school health program.
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Chapter Objectives
• Define written school health policies and
explain their importance to the school
health program.
• Explain processes for developing and
implementing school health pollicies.
• List eight major components of a
coordinated school health program.
• Describe the role of the school health
coordinator.
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Chapter Objectives
• Identify those services offered as apart
of school health services and explain
why schools are logical places to offer
such services.
• Describe three models for offering
school health services.
• Explain what is meant by healthy school
environment and discuss two major
environments.
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Chapter Objectives
• Define health education.
• List three major instructional patterns for
teaching health.
• Explain the U. S. Department of
Education and the CDC’s Programs that
Work projects.
• Identify and briefly explain four issues
that are faced by school health
advocates.
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Introduction
• The school health program is an
important component of community
health because every citizen must pass
through this institution.
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Definition
• Coordinated School Health Program
– An organized set of policies, procedures, and
activities designed to protect, promote, and improve
the health and well-being of students and staff, thus
improving the student’s ability to learn.
• Components
– school health education - physical education
– health services - school nutrition
– school environment - family and community
– counseling - health promotion
– psychological and social services
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Coordinated School Health Program

Health
Education
Parent/
Physical
Community
Involvement Education

Health Health
Promotion for Services
Staff

Nutrition
Healthy School
Environment Services
Counseling,
Psychological, and
Social Services
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School Health Team

Students Parents

Teachers Administrators

Medical personnel Maintenance workers

Social workers Food service workers

Counseling Personnel

Primary role is to provide coordination of the

various component of the coordinated school
health program.
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School Health Team

• School nurse
– maintain and review birth records
– dispense medications
– train others
– conduct health follow-ups
– help develop school health policies
– identify students with medical problems
– identify community health resources
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School Health Team

• Teacher’s role
– instruction
– services
– school living
– coordination
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Need for School Health

• Health of children and their learning are
reciprocally related.
– Unhealthy child has a difficult time learning
– unhealthy child can be disruptive to others
– school programs included in Health People
2010
– not a panacea
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School Program Foundations

Support of school Well-organized Written school

administration school health team health policies
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School Health Policies

• Written statements that provide a
framework to guide.
• Describe the nature of the program and
procedures for its implement-ation.
– Development
– Implementation
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Comprehensive School Health
Components
• Administration and Organization
• School Health Services
– Health appraisals
– Emergency services
– Prevention & control of communicable diseases,
• Healthful School Environment
– Physical
– Psychosocial
• Health Education
– includes all health education in the schools
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School Health Instruction

– Community health
– Consumer health
– Environmental health
– Family life
– Mental & emotional health
– Injury prevention & safety
– Nutrition
– Personal health
– Prevention & control of disease
– Substance use & abuse
– Growth and development/sexuality
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Instructional Approaches
• Direct
– health is taught as a separate discipline
• Correlated
– health is taught as part of other disciplines,
i.e., science, home economics or physical
education
• Integrated
– health is the vehicle through which other
disciplines are taught
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Science Math

Home
Language
Economics
Arts
HEALTH
Physical
Social
Education
Studies

Music Art

Integrated Instructional Approach

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Concerns & Issues

• Comprehensive school health programs
– research shows programs work - however they are
not in place in all schools although the need is strong
• Controversy
– based on differing values & religious teachings & over
the proper implementing of the curriculum
• School-based clinics/School linked clinics
– offer comprehensive health services, have met with
resistance in certain communities
• Violence in Schools
– risk factors need to be identified
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Chapter 6

The School Health Program:

A Component of Community
Health