KYLE ANDRE V.

LUCERO
GRADE 10- ST. MICHAEL

TOPIC:

The importance of school healthcare programs: Nurturing Healthy students

for a brighter future.

Introduction:

Provide mandated screening and immunization monitoring. This implies an intensive

effort to ensure that screening and immunization are carried out thoroughly and
comprehensively. Provide systems for the identification and solution of students' health
and educational problems. Provide comprehensive and appropriate health education.
Provide a healthful and safe school environment that facilitates learning.

Body:

Times have changed, and so have school health programs. Many adults remember school
health as consisting of lessons about first aid and the four food groups, with occasional
visits to the school nurse for minor illnesses or injuries themselves. While these issues
have not disappeared, today's school health programs also are faced with a new array of
difficult and seemingly intractable problems: the "new social morbidities"—violence, drug,
and alcohol abuse.

Access to health care can include concerns beyond mere financial issues. Transportation,
convenience, and cultural sensitivity are also factors. In addition, parental support and
encouragement, as well as understanding the importance of healthcare and how to
approach the system, influence students' access to health care. Even with access to
health care, young people may not be receiving the attention they need themselves. When
adolescents with access to physicians are asked what they want to discuss and what
they actually discuss with the physician, the percentage drops on virtually every topic
from nutrition to sex, to drug use. Even those adolescents with insurance and family
doctors do not seek help from health care professionals for problems of the greatest
importance for their high-risk behaviors. In fact, doctors themselves do not feel qualified
to discuss most adolescent health behaviors.

Conclusion:

The school health project aims to strengthen school health care services and manage
malnutrition cases for students and educational staff for schools in HCD.