Question

Why is it important to understand the role school health plays in the overall picture of community health?

Answer 1

Ans) - Health and success in school are interrelated.
- Schools cannot achieve their primary mission of education if students and staff are not healthy and fit physically, mentally, and socially.
- CSH provides the integration of education and health.

- health services provided by school health workers to appraise, protect, and promote the health of students
- becoming more popular because poverty
- focus on prevention, intervention, and treating acute illness.

- Nutrition services: provide access to a variety of nutritious and appealing meals that meet the needs of all students
- offer students a learning laboratory for classroom nutrition and health education
- serve as a resource for links with nutrition-related community services.

- Family & Community involvement: - allows for an integrated school, parent, and community approach for enhancing the health and well-being of students.

- School linked health centres: the number is increasingly growing with majority being located in urban areas and in high schools

- Main goal: the ability to reach, in a cost effective manner, a large segment of the population that is otherwise without primary health care.