School health services

1. ANANDGOWDA.S
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
YENEPOYA NURSING COLLEGE
YENEPOYA UNIVERSITY , MANGALURU

3. SCHOOL HEALTH
School health refers to the state of complete
physical, mental and spiritual well being and
not merely absence of diseases or infirmity
among pupils, teachers and other school
personnel.

4. SCHOOL
HEALTH SERVICES
It refers to the need based comprehensive
services rendered to pupils ,teachers and
other personnel in the school to promote
protect their health and prevent and control
disease and maintain health

6. • School children constitute a vital and substantial
segment of the population.
• School children are the vulnerable section of the
population by virtue of their physical mental
emotional and social growth and development during
this period.
• School children are exposed to various stressful
situations. This situations may cause mental
problems, negative attitude, affect growth and
development.

7. • Children coming to school belong to different socio economic
and cultural backgrounds which affect their health and
nutritional status and require help and guidance in promoting
protecting and maintain their health and nutritional status.
• Children in school age are prone to get specific health problem.
Various acute and chronic conditions which can be encountered
during health period

9. AIM
To protect, promote and maintain
health of school children and reduce
morbidity and mortality in them.

10. OBJECTIVES
• Create health consciousness among school health children
,their parents and teachers.
• Provide healthy and safe environment which is conducive to
comprehensive development of children.
• Impart health information and conduct health education on
various aspects of healthful living in school, home and
community.
• Prevent communicable and non communicable diseases.

11. • Identify and treat any abnormalities /defects/diseases as
early as possible and do the necessary referral and follow
up.
• Involve teacher ,students and their parents in the
management of health aspects.
• Help the teachers and children make constructive and
protective use of co curricular and extracurricular
activities

13. BEHAVIOURAL
PROBLEMS
OTHER
PROBLEMS

15. • Be based on health needs of the school
children.
• Be planned in coordination with school
,health personnel ,parents and community
people.
• A school health council need to be set up to
facilitate coordination among them to plan
and implement school health services.
• Be part of community health services.

16. • Emphasis on preventive and promotive aspects.
• Emphasis on health education to promote,
protect, improve and maintain health of children
and staff ,rather health education should be
integrated in regular school curriculum.

17. • Emphasis on learning through active and
desirable participation.
• Be ongoing and continuous programme.
• Have an effective system of record keeping
and reporting

19. WHOLESOME SCHOOL
ENVIRONMENT
MAINTENANCE OF
PERSONAL HYGIENE
Health promotive and
protective services

20. NUTRITIONAL
SERVICES
RECRETIONAL
ACTIVITIES

21. MENTAL HEALTH OF
CHILDREN
HEALTH EDUCATION
IMMUNIZATION

22. THERAPUTIC
MEASURES
HEALTH APPRAISAL
TREATMENT AND
FOLLOW UP

23. FIRST AID AND EMERGENCY CARE

24. REHABILITATIVE
SERVICES

25. SCHOOL HEALTH RECORDS

27. THE PRINCIPAL
• Setup a school health
committee
• Approval For school
health programme
• Ensure teachers training.
• Ensure maintenance of
health records
• Ensure the parents
participation in child care

28. THE SCHOOL TEACHER
• Daily inspection of children
• Daily observation of
children
• Help in control
communicable diseases
• Referral of children
• Informing parents about
maintain follow up
• Maintenance of record
• Giving first Aid emergency
care

29. THE PARENTS
• Providing information regarding
past and present history of
medical problems and
immunization status.
• Participate and co-operate in
physical , medical examination of
children .
• Help in correction of defects
• Involved in planning,
implementation and evaluation of
school health programme.

30. THE COMMUNITY
• Providing suitable land for school
building.
• Providing funds and labor in
building proper school.
• Participation in school health
committees and contributes the
information activities
• Participation and implementation
of programme activities.
• Motivating parents to end their
children to the school and take
care of their health

31. THE CHILDREN
• Learn values of medical and
health examination, personal
hygiene, good nutrition,
environmental sanitation etc.
• Co –operate in various aspects
of school health programme.
• Develop positive habits and
healthful living activities as
educated upon
• Extend this knowledge to other
members of the family and
neighborhood etc.

32. THE MEDICAL OFFICER
• Making diagnosis.
• Prescribe the treatment.
• Making referral to the specialists.
• Ensuring follow up of the
children.
• Initiating promotive and
preventive programme.
• Inspection of school environment
and sanitation.
• Holding meetings with parents
and teachers.
• Ensuring maintenance of records
and reports.
• Evaluation of programme

33. THE SCHOOL
HEALTH NURESE
• Health promotion and
specific protection
• Early diagnosis and
treatment
• Prevention of complications
and rehabilitation
• Liaison activities
• Co –ordination
• Evaluation
• Training and guidance