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Jun 22, 2021 · In all WHO regions, school-age children and adolescents (those aged 5–19 years) experience a range of largely preventable health problems, including unintentional injury, interpersonal violence, sexual and reproductive health issues, communicable diseases, noncommunicable diseases and mental health issues.
One goal of the survey was to determine the type of health services provided in schools, types of school health services personnel, methods of governance and financing, organizational structures for the delivery of services in and outside of school, and barriers to services.
- Meg Leavy Small, Lani Smith Majer, Diane D. Allensworth, Beverly K. Farquhar, Laura Kann, Beth Colli...
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School health services staff can help all students with preventive care such as flu shots and vision and hearing screening, as well as acute and emergency care. Qualified professionals such as school nurses, nurse practitioners, dentists, health educators, physicians, physician assistants, and allied health personnel provide these services.
The 2014 CDC report of its School Health Policies and Practices Study aligns with the recommendations in this paper by suggesting the ideal nature of schools for implementing comprehensive health services from universal prevention, to screening, to treatment, to linkage to more-extensive community-based services. 49 This vision can be supported through federal initiatives such as Healthy ...
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Four distinct urban and non-urban areas in the Netherlands participated in the study. An urban and a non-urban area were selected for the triage and the usual approaches. One triage SHS had recently introduced the triage approach and the other SHS had done so five years before the study began. The two SHS in the approach-as-usual group had been wor...
Data were obtained using a digital questionnaire sent by e-mail. Firstly, professionals at schools known to the SHS were approached to obtain the e-mail addresses of the respondents. In the triage group, e-mail addresses for most of the school care coordinators were available to the SHS. In the approach-as-usual group, we contacted school heads to ...
We used descriptive analyses and chi-square tests to assess differences between the background characteristics of schools and school professionals in either the triage group or the approach-as-usual group. Scales were constructed using multiple steps. At first, we converted the answer categories of the ordinal variables into quantified (continuous ...
- Janine Bezem, Debbie Heinen, Ria Reis, Simone E. Buitendijk, Mattijs E. Numans, Paul L. Kocken
- 2017
Jun 12, 2019 · Given the wide reach of schools and the fact that school health services already exist in most countries, international guidelines are needed to clarify whether school health services can be effective, and if so, which interventions should and should not be included.
Components. A comprehensive school health approach has four distinct but inter-related parts: policy. teaching and learning. partnerships and services. social and physical environment. When we direct our actions to all four components, we support students to realize their full potential as learners and as healthy, productive members of society.
