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SCHOOL HEALTH

B. Preventive Aspects :

Preventive aspects:

1- Prevention and control of communicable diseases

2- Early detection and correction of non-communicable diseases

3- Early identification and education of children with special
disabilities

4-Emergency care and first aid services

I-Prevention and control of communicable diseases:
School children are high risk group, they have bad healthy habits. So,
they are more liable to many infectious diseases as respiratory diseases,

food, and waterborne diseases, skin, and parasitic diseases.

Common communicable diseases among school students

 Food- borne diseases
o Diarrhea
o Enteric fever

o Infectious hepatitis A

o Food poisoning
 Diseases spread by droplet infection

o Common cold
o Mumps

o Chicken pox

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