Health Services
Definition of Health Services in the Coordinated School Health ModelServices provided for students to appraise, protect, and promote health. These services are designed to ensure access or referral to primary health care services or both, foster appropriate use of primary health care services, prevent and control communicable disease and other health problems, provide emergency care for illness or injury, promote and provide optimum sanitary conditions for a safe school facility and school environment, and provide educational and counseling opportunities for promoting and maintaining individual, family, and community health. Qualified professionals such as physicians, nurses, dentists, health educators, and other allied health personnel provide these services. (Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/cshp/)
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Tools and Resources
- CDC.gov Widgets and Gadgets
- Healthier Students are Better Learners: A Missing Link in School Reforms to Close the Achievement Gap
- Integrating Mental Health Into Chronic Disease Prevention Strategies for Youth: An Opportunity for Change
- New Look at Obesity Prevention Policies in Schools Reveals Greater Need to Address Adolescents
- Obesity Epidemic (The) and Missouri Students
- Recommended Community Strategies and Measurements to Prevent Obesity in the United States
- School-Based Obesity Prevention Strategies for State Policymakers