School health program

Topic: School Health Programme
BPH 3rd year

2. Advantages of health promoting
school
•a.Offer a holistic model of health that includes the
interrelationships between the physical, mental, social and
environmental aspects of health.
•b.Provides the opportunity for families to take part in the
development of health skills and knowledge of their children.
•c.Addresses the significances of the physical environment in
contributing to the health of children.
•d.Recognizes the importance of the social ethos of the school in
supporting a positive learning environment, one in which healthy
relationships and the emotional well being of students are
strengthened.
•e.Links regional and local health services with the school to
address specific health concerns that affects school children.

3. •f.Focuses on active student participation in the
formal curriculum to develop a range of life long
health related skills and knowledge.
•g.Enhances equity in education and health.
•h.Provides a positive and supportive working
environment for school staff and
•i.Enables the school and the local community
to collaborate in health initiatives, which benefit
students their families and community members.
---WHO 1996.

4. •School health programmemeans the prepared course of
action taken by the school in the interest of the health of
the school child and personal. It includes health service,
heath instruction and healthful living.
•School health programmeis the most important part of
community heath as well as education subject, which takes
place in school or through the efforts for school personnel
and provides learning experiences for influencing
knowledge, attitude and conduct relating to personal and
community health.
•The school family should conduct such an important
programmeregularly and properly so that this programme
will be helpful to improve the health status of the students,
teachers and staffs of school.

5. School Health Programme
Ankita Kunwar
Bph 3
rd
year

6. School Health Programme
•According to Jessie Helen Haag —"School
health Programme is such an important and
creative instructional activities that changes
not only the intellectual aspect but also social
moral, physical and emotional aspect of an
individual.''

7. •"School health education programme is a
school process that comprises of health
services, health instruction and healthful
school environment which contributes in the
health promotion and protection of the
students and the whole staff of the school."-
Health Education on Definition Committee of
USA.

8. Importance of School Health
Programme
•1Helpful to correct physical defects of children though periodic health
examination and simple health service in school.
•2Helpful to control communicable diseases and other epidemic
diseases.
•3Helpful to plan and run effective school and community joint health
activities.
•4Helpful to improve the health status of school family by conducting
all areas of school health programme.
•5Helpful to provide necessary feedback to the parents and teachers
after participating evaluation of school health programme.
•6Helpful to develop understanding of present and future health needs
of students.
•7Helpful to encourage desirable health KAP in each child.
•8Helpful to produce healthy manpowersthat can contribute to build
the nation in the future.

9. Needs of School Health Programme
•a. To live an effective and enjoyable life.
•b. To prepare a person to do what is necessary for the
protection preservation of his own health.
•c. To assist the parents in building up and
maintaining, the high possible level of health in each
child and in developing the necessary competence in
his child deal with the health problems of life.
•d. To taught healthy habits, develops and
understanding interest in his own health status and
establish a life long practice of having ones health
status evaluated

10. The Principal aim of School Health
Programme
•The principal aim of school health programme
is to secure favorable behaviour and conduct
in all situations involving an individual's
health. Broadly put the aim of health
instruction is to teach people to live well, to
live scientifically efficiently, economically and
happy. –Delbert Abert.

11. Purposes of School Health programme
•ITo establish the mental, physical and social
health of the students
•IITo help to establish good habits and health
awareness in the students that he/she will
protect them own health.
•IIITo provide both formal and informal health
teaching to the students
•IVTo make the school environment healthy
•VTo carryout different activities between the
school and community

12. Specific Objectives of School Health
Programme
•According to C.L. Anderson ---------
•IA continuing appraisal of each child's health status
•II Understanding of each child's health needs.
•IIISupervision and guidance of the health of the children
•IVDevelopment of the highest possible level of the health for
each youngster
•VPrevention of defects and disorders
•VIDetection and correction of all defects and disorders.
•VII Special health provision for the exceptional children
•VIIIReduction in the incidence of communicable and non-
communicable diseases
•IXIn each youngster positive health awareness and desire for a
high level of health
•XDevelopment of healthful personal practices.

13. •XIDevelopment of wholesome health attitude
•XIIAcquisition of specific and function knowledge of
personal and community health
•XIII Development of an appreciation of esthetic factors
related to health.
•XIVDevelopment of high level of self-esteem in each
youngster
•XVEffective social adjustment
•XVIMentally hygienic school environment
•XVIIEstablishment and maintenance of sanitary practice
and surroundings
•XVIII Provision of emergency measures.

14. Scope of School Health Programme
•(1) School
•(2) Family
•(3) Work Sites
•(4) Community in General
•(5) Health and medical care settings such as:-
• I) Hospitals II) Health Centers III) Nursing
Home.
•(6) Private clinics and health care project.
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15. Areas of School health Programme
•The main areas of school health programme
are given below:-
•I)School Health Service.
•II)Healthful School Environment.
•III)Health Instruction.
•IV)School-Community Co-Operation.

16. School Health Service
•School health services included all school
activities and procedure designed to affect the
present health status of the children. This is
composed of appraisal of students health,
prevention and control of diseases, prevention
and correction of physical defects, health
guidance and supervision and emergency
care.

17. Objectives of school health service
•The main objective of school health service is to protect and
promote the health status of school family. To achieve the above
goal the following are other objectives:-
•iTo promote, maintain and contribute to the understanding of
the health of the student.
•ii.To appraise the health status of the student through screening
tests and health examination.
•iii.To adjust school programmesto meet the needs of special
groups.
•iv.To counsel and advise students, parents and teachers
regarding health or behavioral problems.
•v.To provide emergency services for students who have been
injured or who have become ill at school.
•vi.To co-ordinate its efforts with those of all community health
groups interested in the health of the students.

18. Scope of School health service
•(1) Appraisal aspect of school health service.
•(2) Preventive aspect of school health service.
•(3) Remedial aspect of school health service.