Page 102 - fourth year book

SCHOOL HEALTH

1. School Health Services :

Are those services which provided in school for the welfare of children?

Aims of school health services:
1. To enhance overall health.
2. Early detection of disorders
3. Appropriate treatment
4. Prevention and control of communicable disease

5. Healthy environment

School health services include:

School health
services

Appraisal Preventive Curative aspects
aspects aspects

A. Appraisal aspects:
These are organized activities, carried out to assess the physical, mental,
emotional and social status of school students.

Components of appraisal:

1. History
2. Observation
3. Screening tests
4. Examination
5. Laboratory investigation

1. History:

The students` past and current health events

 Immunization (another important role of school health nurse is
monitoring student immunization records.)

 Previous illnesses, injuries and operations

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