chap 6: the school health program: a component of community health anita sego spring, 2005
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Chap 6: The School Health Program
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.
Chap 6: The School Health Program
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.
Chap 6: The School Health Program
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.
Chap 6: The School Health Program
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.
Chap 6: The School Health Program
Introduction
• The school health program is an important component of community health because every citizen must pass through this institution.
Chap 6: The School Health Program
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
Chap 6: The School Health Program
Coordinated School Health Program
Health Education
Physical Education
Health Services
NutritionServices
Counseling,Psychological, and Social Services
Healthy School Environment
Health Promotion forStaff
Parent/Community Involvement
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School Health Team
Administrators
Social workers
Medical personnel Maintenance workers
Parents
PersonnelCounseling
Food service workers
Students
Teachers
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
Chap 6: The School Health Program
School Health Team
• Teacher’s role– instruction– services– school living– coordination
Chap 6: The School Health Program
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
Chap 6: The School Health Program
School Program Foundations
Support of school administration
Well-organized school health team
Written school health policies
Chap 6: The School Health Program
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
Chap 6: The School Health Program
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
Chap 6: The School Health Program
HEALTH
Science Math
LanguageArts
Social Studies
ArtMusic
PhysicalEducation
HomeEconomics
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