What do you know about school health
Health: the case of the integration of physical and psychological, mental, social, and not merely the absence of disease.
A psychological health: possession of abilities and skills that enable the individual to meet the daily challenges.
School health: a set of concepts, principles, systems, and services to promote the health of school-age students, and promoting the health of the community through schools.
And school health are not independent but are specialized Crystal for a range of public health science and knowledge as a preventive medicine and epidemiology and Biostatistics, health education and environmental health, nutrition and oral health and nursing.
The importance of school health:
1. children in this age group (study) a significant proportion of the community up to a quarter of the population, and the school provides a great opportunity for health care in this category.
2. all members of the community each school, where classes have the opportunity to influence them and provide them with information on wotoidhm health behavior
3. this stage of child growth and development and maturity, which occurs a lot of physical and mental changes, social and emotional needs that are available to students in this age of the effects changes in natural borders.
4. in the conditions of schools and school-age children are more vulnerable to infection and contagious diseases and are more prone to injuries and accidents.
5. in school-age children acquire behaviors on life in General and in particular health and need an educational atmosphere helps to acquire these customs provide appropriate atmosphere to modify school behaviors.
School health goals:
Aims activities and school health programmes to:-
Health calendar-students identify health indicators of the health of students in all fields.
-Health students and health indicators within the required level, and promote the health of students.
Detailed objectives for any school health system should include the following:-
1) definition of educational workers and health priorities health problems at school age.
2) school health educators impart the skills of planning, implementation and evaluation of school health programmes.
3) giving health education personnel capabilities and skills needed for early detection of health problems.
4) provide school staff with the skills of school health education.
5) help students, educators and health professionals in monitoring and improving school health environment.
6) health services and strengthen the health of students and the school community.
7) coordination with other health providers in providing therapeutic services.
School health: systems development.
1) school health began the beginning of treatment in terms of purpose and content.
2) began switching to provide preventive services such as infection control and giving vaccinations and procedures for dealing with infectious diseases.
3) moved to rely on doctors and Clinical nurse specialist categories but less qualified, such as admin and visitor health and health educator and school health nurse and technician dental and oral health.
4) growing interest in providing health promotion and primary prevention of diseases in the community.
5) turned into school health services to deal with physical problems to behavioral problems and try to prevent negative health behaviors students gain as smoking and drug addiction and the forbidden sexual practices.
6) moved the work of school health clinics and hospitals into educational institutions and school.
7) school health services shifted from merely being a function of doctors, nurses and clinical staff involved in teaching family functions with particular focus on the role of the teacher.
8) school health has turned from being the responsibility of the institution or Department to work together in coordinating efforts between all stakeholders, and this is a growing trend worldwide, but it is more developed in the industrialized countries, the American Association of school health seventy-third annual conference under the slogan: "collaboration: the word chosen for the twenty-first century".
Justification preventive school health transformation:
Reason for focusing on the preventive role of school health and educational systems in the school health activities to the following reasons:
-Improved potential therapeutic institutions and developed techniques, therapeutic and side cover left to educational systems focus on preventive role.
-Increasing awareness of the importance of preventive health services.
-The target group of school health services (school) is physically sound essentially fall under the behavioral problems health problems.
-Changed the traditional role of the school has changed its role as a source of information, where a variety of information sources and easy handling and the role of the school focusing on education and behaviours and skills that bring to life.
-High level of expectations of the community and other sectors of the educational sector for the community health education for this age group task
-The success of many models of preventive health services provided through schools, which led to significant changes in infection rates and reduce the cost of treatment.
-Preventive medicine specialties saturation and science support, such as health education, nutritional sciences and Biostatistics, oral health, and provide more resources in these areas.
-The increased incidence of chronic diseases, despite the increased expense to treat these diseases
-The high economic cost of curative services despite dwindling financial resources, and the stagnation of the economy.
-Duplication of sources providing therapeutic services (school health, other health authorities that provide curative health services exclusively) often misuse treatment services and use them in addition to wasting a lot of treatment options and thus wasting the wealth of the country.