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    1. The document discusses school health services which aim to promote, protect, and maintain the health of school children. This includes conducting health screenings, providing treatment, and implementing health education programs. 2. Key components of school health services include health appraisals, preventing communicable diseases, ensuring a healthy school environment, providing nutrition and first aid, and addressing dental, eye, and mental health. 3. The school health team, which is crucial for implementing these services, involves principals, teachers, parents, medical officers, and school health nurses who fill various roles from administration to education to coordination.

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    1. The document discusses school health services which aim to promote, protect, and maintain the health of school children. This includes conducting health screenings, providing treatment, and implementing health education programs. 2. Key components of school health services include health appraisals, preventing communicable diseases, ensuring a healthy school environment, providing nutrition and first aid, and addressing dental, eye, and mental health. 3. The school health team, which is crucial for implementing these services, involves principals, teachers, parents, medical officers, and school health nurses who fill various roles from administration to education to coordination.

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    1. The document discusses school health services which aim to promote, protect, and maintain the health of school children. This includes conducting health screenings, providing treatment, and implementing health education programs. 2. Key components of school health services include health appraisals, preventing communicable diseases, ensuring a healthy school environment, providing nutrition and first aid, and addressing dental, eye, and mental health. 3. The school health team, which is crucial for implementing these services, involves principals, teachers, parents, medical officers, and school health nurses who fill various roles from administration to education to coordination.

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    School Health Service

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    1. The document discusses school health services which aim to promote, protect, and maintain the health of school children. This includes conducting health screenings, providing treatment, and implementing health education programs. 2. Key components of school health services include health appraisals, preventing communicable diseases, ensuring a healthy school environment, providing nutrition and first aid, and addressing dental, eye, and mental health. 3. The school health team, which is crucial for implementing these services, involves principals, teachers, parents, medical officers, and school health nurses who fill various roles from administration to education to coordination.

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    SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE

    INTRODUCTION

    • School health service is an important aspect of community aspect of


    community health. It is possible to increase the health level of community and achieve
    growth in the health of future generation through school health service.

    DEFINITION OF SCHOOL HEALTH

    School health refers to a state of complete physical, mental, social and spiritual
    well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity among pupils, teachers
    and other school personnel - k. k. gilani

    DEFINITION OF SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES

    School health service refers to need based comprehensive service rendered to


    pupils, teachers and other personnel in the school to promote, protect their health,
    prevent and control disease and maintain their health. - k. k. gulani

    AIM

    The ultimate aim of school health services is to promote, protect and maintain
    health of school children and reduce morbidity and mortality in them.

    OBJECTIVES OF SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE

    • The promotion of positive health

    • The prevention of diseases

    • Early diagnosis, treatment and follow up of defects

    • Awakening health consciousness in children

    • The provision of healthful environment.

    GOALS OF SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES

    • To prepare the younger generation to adopt measures to remain healthy


    so as to help them to make the best use of educational facilities, to utilize
    leisure in productive and constructive manner, to enjoy recreation and to
    develop concern for others
    • To help the younger generation become healthy and useful citizen who
    will be able to perform their role effectively for the welfare of
    themselves, their families and the community at large and country as a
    whole.

    NEED FOR SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES

    • School children constitute a vital and substantial segment of


    population.

    • Schoolchildren are vulnerable section of population by virtue of their


    physical, mental, emotional and social growth and development during
    this period.

    • School children are expressed to various stressful situations.

    • Children coming to school belong to different socio economic and


    cultural background which affect their health and nutritional status and
    require help and guidance in promoting, protecting and maintaining their
    health and nutritional status.

    • Children in school age are prone to get specific health problems.


    PRINCIPLES OF SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES

    • It is based on health needs of school children

    • It is planned in co-ordination with school health personnel,


    parents and community people

    . • It emphasize on health education to promote, protect, improve


    and maintain health of children and staff.

    • It emphasize on promotive and preventive, aspects.

    . • It emphasize on health education to promote, protect, improve


    and maintain health of children and staff.

    • It emphasize on learning through active and desirable


    participation.

    • It is an ongoing and continuous program.


    • It has an effective system of record keeping and reporting.
    COMPONENTS OF SCHOOL HEALTH PROGRAMME

    • Health appraisal of school children and school personnel • Remedial


    measures and follow up ]

    • Prevention of communicable disease

    • Healthful school environment

    ] • Nutritional service

    • First aid and emergency care

    • Mental health

    . • Dental health

    • Eye health

    • Health education

    • Education of the handicapped children

    • Maintenance and use of school health records

    1. Daily morning inspection by the teachers unusually flushed face, rashes,


    spots, signs of acute cold, coughing and sneezing, sore throat, rigid neck,
    nausea, vomiting, watery eyes, headache, chills, fever, etc. Tuberculin testing/
    screening for Hansen's annual testing of vision, regular and quarterly wt/ht
    checking.  Clinical examination for nutritional deficiency, examination of
    faeces.  Routine physical examination needs to be done.  Medical
    examination on entry- 4 years  Periodical medical examination of school
    children, teacher, health personnel. 1. Health appraisal of school children and
    school personnel
    2. Referral hospital must provide for beds for children who are admitted and
    provide relevant treatment. Specialist should be employed in schools for the
    same.  Special clinics should be conducted in the health units.  Following
    the regular examination, respective referral services. 2. Remedial measures
    and follow up
    3. Protection of all schoo3. Preventive of communicable diseases School should
    serve as exemplary place to reflect sanitation. A good school environment
    promotes physical, social and emotional health of the pupils.  An optimal
    school environment, location, building and equipment's are important pre-
    requisites for a school health. l going children against preventable disease by
    immunization according to the National Immunization Schedule. 4. Healthful
    school environment
    4. The teachers should receive adequate training during teacher training program
    or in service training programs to prepare themselves to carry out this
    obligation. The school must have an arrangement for providing first aid and
    emergency care to children who get injured or sick at the school.  A nutritious
    mid-day meal for children in the school is considered as a practical solution to
    combat malnutrition in children. 6. First aid and emergency care  Good
    nutrition is very essential not only for optimal health growth and development
    of the school child but also for his/her educational achievement. 5. Nutritional
    services
    5. During the dental check up should focus on prophylactic cleansing and dental
    hygiene classes. Dental hygienist and dentist are to be employed.  School
    health should incorporate dental health components too.  School children
    usually suffer from dental diseases and defects.  Juvenile delinquency,
    maladjustment and drug addiction are becoming problems among school
    children. so, teachers need to plan and organize well-balanced curricular
    activities so that students are not over burdened and have sufficient relaxation
    and recreation, etc. 8. Dental health  The mental health of the child affects his
    physical health and the learning process. 7. Mental health
    6. Health education content areas include personal hygiene, environmental health,
    nutrition, prevention and control of communicable and non-communicable
    diseases. Health education is very important for school children as it creates
    awareness, gives knowledge regarding health matter, gives knowledge
    regarding health matter, develops motivation and promotes change in health
    behavior and health attitudes.  Vitamin A administration could be done. 10.
    Health education  Teachers are in key position to detect reflective errors, refer
    for treatment for squints, amblyopia and to detect eye infections. 9. Eye
    health services
    7. The schools have cumulative health records providing pertinent information
    and serves as tool to evaluate the school health services.Every child
    irrespective of the disability, should be encouraged to become productive and
    self supporting. 12. School health records 11. Education of handicapped
    children
    NATURE AND SCOPE

    • It is an integral part of community health. It is that phase of community health


    and family health service that promotes the well-being of the children and his
    education for healthy living

    . • It can be a powerful influence for shaping health behavior. There is a unique


    opportunity to promote, maintain and improve health and well-being since
    teacher reach most people early in life, where attitudes and values are most
    readily developed.

    • School health service is a personal health service. It stresses the role of the
    child as a "change agent for community". A child has greater capacity to
    observe, learn, experiment and then transfer knowledge to others.

    • School health helps to impart information of health habits and practices of


    healthful living throughout school life, which are very important during the
    formative period of one's life.

    • School health program help the younger generation become healthy and
    useful citizen who will be able to perform their role effectively for the welfare
    of themselves, their families, etc

    SCHOOL HEALTH TEAM

    • The school principal

    • The school teacher

    • The parents

    • The community

    • The children

    • The medical officer

    • The school health nurse/ community health nurse


    ROLE OF NURSE

    • Administrator

    • Educationist

    • Service provider

    • Researcher

    • Initiation and implementation

    • Liaison activities

    • Co-ordination

    • Evaluation

    • Training and guidance

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