Comprehensive School Health Services: Components and Impact
School health services promote student well-being and academic success through coordinated components:
- Health Education: Nutrition, physical activity, mental health, substance use prevention.
- Screenings: Vision, hearing, dental, scoliosis, BMI.
- Immunizations: Compliance monitoring, on-site clinics.
- First Aid / Emergency Care: Injury/illness management, AEDs, emergency plans.
- Mental Health Services: Counseling, crisis intervention, referral.
- Nutrition Services: Healthy meals, nutrition education, food insecurity screening.
- Physical Activity: PE, recess, before/after-school programs.
- Special Education Support: Health-related services per IEP/504.
- Care Coordination: School nurse as liaison between family, providers, school.
Evidence links comprehensive school health to improved attendance, graduation rates, and health equity.
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