Everything about School Health Services totally explained
School Health Services are services from medical, teaching and other professionals applied in or out of school to improve the health and well-being of children and in some cases whole families. These services have been developed in different ways around the globe but the fundamentals are constant ... the early detection, correction, prevention or amelioration of disease, disability and abuse from which school aged children can suffer.
Unesco has published a set of tools, as part of its
FRESH initiative, to guide those wishing to set up school health services around the world. Designed primarily for developing nations, these tools can be of universal use
(External Link
).The main emphasis of these tool is on:
School health services are well developed in the United Sates. Central guidelines are provided by
Making Health Academic but each state and within that each
school board has adopted its own specific methods.
This is a five year project funded by
CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) designed to enable all schools to be part of a co-ordinated school health program. The project is built around the fact that six preventable behaviours, mainly learned in
childhood and
youth, account for most of the serious illnesses and premature deaths in the United States; these are:
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Examples of existing services
Massachusetts. An example from a maritime state is (External Link) where a typical mission statement starts "School Health Services fosters the growth, development and educational achievement of Massachusetts' students by promoting their health and wellbeing ... "
New Mexico. An example from a southern state is (External Link) where an interesting "yucca model of coordinated school health" is used to help visualize the inter-relationship of the services.
The health of children and youth in the UK is mainly the responsibility of the NHS, for example child health screening (External Link) and advice for parents of overweight children (External Link). School based services are therefore more limited than in the US.
Examples of existing services
England - Warrington (External Link)
Northern Ireland (External Link)
Scotland (External Link)
Other countries
Examples of existing services
Australia (External Link)
Canada (External Link)
Ireland (External Link)
Nigeria has a non-profit NGO dedicated to improving the health of Nigerian adolescents.(External Link)
Singapore (External Link)
Pakistan (External Link)
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