Importance: Children experiencing parental opioid use disorder are a growing population at heightened risk of physical and mental health issues over the life course. Yet these children are less likely to receive comprehensive, ongoing health care and their parents are more likely to report barriers to access health care for their children.…

Students with diabetes deserve a school nurse who can effectively manage the disease. Tensions between the school and families sometimes emerge when a child with diabetes goes to school. To resolve these tensions in Colorado, stakeholders collaborated to implement a statewide program to meet the needs of students with diabetes. Colorado school…

Background: Asthma is the most common chronic disease among children today, yet surveillance is limited to national and state estimates which can vary over time, by location and by population types. This article describes a comprehensive statewide school-based asthma surveillance program and examines 5?years of surveillance data. Methods: After…

State Compensatory Education (SCE) is a supplemental program in Texas designed to eliminate disparities in (a) student performance on assessment instruments administered under chapter 39 of the Texas Education Code (1995), and (b) the rates of high school completion between students who are at risk of dropping out of school, as defined by Texas…

A brief description of the information dissemination program of the Sacramento City Unified School District (California) and eight informational brochures are presented. The program involves setting up "information centers" (display boards with pockets for eight brochures) in schools, school administrative offices, and public libraries…

The University of Massachusetts Simmons School Health Institute delivers a series of professional development programs across Massachusetts to improve statewide delivery of comprehensive school health programs to children and adolescents. The programs emphasize student risk assessment, health program design and management, and school-based clinic…

This report summarizes AISD's evaluation results of its 2003-2004 state compensatory education programs.

The views and objectives of the Colorado School Health Council, formulated largely through the efforts of Colorado public school nurses, are set forth. (LH)

The first section of the document consists of the questionnaire/survey instrument completed by 70 professional ancillary staff (including speech, physical, and occupational therapists, adapted physical education teachers, and registered nurses) as part of a study designed to evaluate the quality and efficiency of early education programs serving…

The guide delineates the expanded Louisiana migrant health program for the 1980-81 school year and focuses on the task of motivating migrant children to take responsibility for their own health. Fourteen unnumbered sections contain: an excerpt from the April 3, 1980 Federal Register stating conditions for grants to state education agencies; a…

In the biennium 1926-1928 the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of modern physiology was celebrated. A tercentenary is an exceedingly small fraction of the time since man discovered the use of fire, invented clothes and houses, and began to huddle together under conditions which have rendered knowledge of hygiene imperative to his…

A three-part study provides supportive data to reinforce a request for revision of Pennsylvania's school vision screening standards in order to properly identify visually limited children. The school vision screening policies of 35 states are surveyed in nine tables, and the problems involved in screening practices are discussed. The reactions of…

This index is a compilation of school health policies and concepts recommended by Florida's School Health Medical Advisory Committee from 1958 through May, 1972. The goal of school health programs K-12 is to reflect sound health and educational practices designed to protect, maintain, and improve the health of the school child. Each of these…

The 1994 Nebraska Governor's round table subcommittee established the goal of lowering teenage pregnancies in the state by the year 2000. School nurses are in key positions to provide continuous support and surveillance of adolescent health through graduation. This publication presents guidelines and resources to encourage and assist school nurses…