School Health Services Slideshare. The initiative is designed to improve the health of students, school personnel, families and other members of the community through schools. The expansion of mental health services in schools can be traced to the high demand for mental health services in the first school health programs in los angeles high schools in the 1980s.
• selective services for students identified as at risk for a mental health concern or problem. The school nurse has a crucial role in the seamless provision of comprehensive health services to children and youth. Although a universally accepted definition of the term ''school health services has not been adopted, the school health policies and programs study (shpps) has described school health services as a coordinated system that ensures a continuum of care from school to home to community health care provider and back (small et al., 1995).
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Join slideshare to discover, share, and present presentations and infographics on the world’s largest professional content sharing community. Introduction school health services is a iind component of comprehensive school health programmes. The seed for renovating the school health programme in the state was sown with the starting of a school health clinic in 2007 december in the largest girl’s school in india, the cotton hill girls higher secondary school in the capital city thiruvananthapuram. The main objective of school health services is to look after the health of children ,prevent and control of common diseases.