Defining a Comprehensive School Health Program An Interim Statement (1995) / Chapter Skim
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These programs propose to combine health education, health promotion and disease prevention, and access to health and social services, at the school site. While earlier generations of school health programs were predominantly concerned with stemming the threat of infectious disease, such problems have now to a large extent been superseded by the "new morbidities" injuries, violence, substance abuse, risky sexual behaviors, psychological and emotional disorders, problems due to poverty and by concerns about many students' lack of access to reliable health information and health care.
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The interim statement also identifies additional questions and issues that emerged in the process of formulating the definition, which the committee intends to explore during the course of its study. The provisional definition of a comprehensive school health program adopted by the IOM Committee on Comprehensive School Health Programs in Grades K-12 follows: A comprehensive school health program is an integrated set of planned, sequential, school-affiliated strategies, activities, and services designed to promote the optimal physical, emotional, social, and educational development of students.
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