scholarly journals Access to a school health nurse and adolescent health needs in the universal school health service in Finland

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Kivimäki ◽  
Vesa Saaristo ◽  
Kirsi Wiss ◽  
Marjut Frantsi‐Lankia ◽  
Timo Ståhl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Adolescent Health ◽  
School Health ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
School Health Service ◽  
Health Nurse

scholarly journals Effective School Health Service: A Response to Adolescent Health Needs in Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 278-279.e1
Author(s):  
Pierre-André Michaud ◽  
Leyla Namazova-Baranova ◽  
Martin Weber ◽  
Anne-Emmanuelle Ambresin
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Adolescent Health ◽  
School Health ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Effective School ◽  
School Health Service

scholarly journals The community health nurse in school health services

Curationis ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Snyman
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Community Health ◽  
School Health ◽  
School Health Service ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Health Nurse ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Community Health Nurse

The Department of Health. Welfare and Pensions is responsible for rendering a school health service to Black, Coloured and Indian scholars in the Republic of South Africa.

scholarly journals Experiences of school health nurses regarding the provision of the school health service delivery in the Tshwane district

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Selebetswe T. Dibakwane ◽  
Mmapheko D. Peu
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
School Health ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Health Service Delivery ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Main Role ◽  
School Health Service ◽  
School Health Programme ◽  
School Health Nurses

Background: Irrespective of the provision of an integrated school health policy, the school health nurses continue to experience multiple challenges regarding the provisioning of school health service delivery.Aim: The aim of this paper was to explore and describe the experiences of school health nurses regarding school health service delivery in the Tshwane district.Setting: Schools in the Tshwane district in Pretoria were used in the study.Methods: A qualitative and descriptive phenomenological design was used to conduct the study. Purposive sampling techniques were used to select a sample from the population of school health nurses employed in the Tshwane district and conduct the enquiry because of their knowledge and experience of school health services. The researchers collected data by means of unstructured, one-on-one in-depth interviews. The Tesch data analysis method was used by the researcher and co-coder. The researcher identified categories, subcategories and themes and these were reduced into grouping topics that were related to one another.Results: Positive and negative experiences of school health nurses emerged. It was evident from the findings of the study that the factors affecting the quality of the integrated school health programme (ISHP) provided were interrelated. Most of these factors negatively affected service delivery.Conclusion: It was recommended that the partnership between the National Department of Health and National Department of Basic Education as the main role players should be sustained at all times to ensure the successful implementation of the ISHP.

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PEDIATRICS ◽  
1950 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 362-367
Author(s):  
GEORGE M. WHEATLEY
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Health Service ◽  
School Health ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Marked Change ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Health Examination ◽  
School Health Service ◽  
Antibiotic Drugs

THERE has been a marked change in our concept of the term "school health service." Early activities in this field were almost wholly devoted to the control of communicable disease. Today, thanks to immunization, the antibiotic drugs and health education, most of the old enemies of child health have been conquered. As a result, the years that a child spends in school have been made the healthiest period of life, when appraised by the crude measure of mortality. Why then school health service? Let me first define what I mean by this term. It comprises health supervision of the school child by educators, public health nurses and school physicians for case-finding and health guidance. At no other time of life is the child or family so readily available for preventive medical service and health education. Public health cannot afford to neglect this ready access to so large a segment of the population—actually more than 20 million persons. Entrance to kindergarten and first grade is perhaps the most valuable of these opportunities. For all too many children, this is the first health examination since the first year of life. Habit disorders or physical defects which have developed in the preschool years can be brought to light and treatment advised. A convincing demonstration of the value of a good medical examination at this time of life occurred recently when I was instructing a group of fourth year medical students. As part of their pediatric training, they visited a school to do some examinations under supervision.

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