Defining a Comprehensive School Health Program An Interim Statement (1995) / Chapter Skim
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4 ISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED IN THE FULL REPORT
4 ISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED IN THE FULL REPORT
Pages 26-34
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In cases where insufficient evidence exists or no consensus can be reached, the committee will seek to point out the knowledge gaps and recommend how they might be addressed. The committee also recognizes that it may not be feasible to answer all of these questions, but they may provide the basis for future studies.
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Therefore, the committee will seek answers to these questions: . What are the realistic and measurable student, teacher, parent, organizational, and community outcomes that can be expected from comprehensive school health programming?
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· What role should the various program components (e.g. health education, physical education, health services, nutrition services, counseling and psychological services, social services, staff work-site health promotion, and healthy school environment)
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What are the principal sources of health services and health information for students? Are these sources adequate?
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RESEARCH AND EVALUATION Comprehensive school health programs have not been implemented to a sufficient extent to provide a broad knowledge base about these programs. Research and evaluation of varying quality have been done in categorical areas, both in instruction and in services, but typically programs have not been studied comprehensively.
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· Should health services be considered part of the guarantee of free and appropriate education? LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL POLICIES Local control of education has been a tradition in this country.
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Questions relating to training issues are: · What kinds of educators and health care providers will be required in the future? How might the reorganization or blending of traditional roles produce new careers, and possibly new disciplines, in the field of child and adolescent health?
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The committee also realizes that it may not be feasible to address all of these questions in this study, but they may provide the basis for future studies. The committee has charted an ambitious course for its work but trusts that its full report will be of vital interest to families, educators, health service providers, and policymakers-in short, to everyone concerned with the health, education, and quality of life of our nation's children and young people.
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