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Anita Sego Spring, 2005

Explore the importance, components, and implementation of coordinated school health programs in fostering student well-being and academic success within the school environment. Learn about the role of the school health coordinator and services provided by such programs.

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Anita Sego Spring, 2005

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  1. Anita Sego Spring, 2005

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Introduction • The school health program is an important component of community health because every citizen must pass through this institution.

  7. 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

  8. Coordinated School Health Program Health Education Parent/ Community Involvement Physical Education Health Services Health Promotion for Staff Nutrition Services Healthy School Environment Counseling, Psychological, and Social Services

  9. School Health Team Parents Students 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.

  10. 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

  11. School Health Team • Teacher’s role • instruction • services • school living • coordination

  12. 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

  13. School Program Foundations Support of school administration Well-organized school health team Written school health policies

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. Science Math Home Economics Language Arts HEALTH Physical Education Social Studies Music Art Integrated Instructional Approach

  19. 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

  20. Chapter 6 The School Health Program: A Component of Community Health

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