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interactive components.
Eight Component Model
The following are working descriptions of the eight components of a
coordinated school health program.
Health Education: A planned, sequential, K-12 curriculum that addresses the
physical, mental, emotional and social dimensions of health. The curriculum
is designed to motivate and assist students to maintain and improve their
health, prevent disease, and reduce health-related risk behaviors. It allows
students to develop and demonstrate increasingly sophisticated health-
related knowledge, attitudes, skills, and practices. The comprehensive
health education curriculum includes a variety of topics such as personal
health, family health, community health, consumer health, environmental
health, sexuality education, mental and emotional health, injury prevention
and safety, nutrition, prevention and control of disease, and substance use
and abuse. Qualified, trained teachers provide health education.
Physical Education/Physical Activity: A planned, sequential K-12 curriculum
that provides cognitive content and learning experiences in a variety of
activity areas such as basic movement skills; physical fitness; rhythms and
dance; games; team, dual, and individual sports; tumbling and gymnastics;
and aquatics. Quality physical education should promote, through a variety
of planned physical activities, each student's optimum physical, mental,
emotional, and social development, and should promote activities and sports
that all students enjoy and can pursue throughout their lives. Qualified,
trained teachers teach physical activity. Physical Activity should be
encouraged daily.
Health Services: Services provided for students to appraise, protect, and
promote health. These services are designed to ensure access or referral to
primary health care services or both, foster appropriate use of primary
health care services, prevent and control communicable disease and other
health problems, provide emergency care for illness or injury, promote and
provide optimum sanitary conditions for a safe school facility and school
environment, and provide educational and counseling opportunities for
promoting and maintaining individual, family, and community health.
Qualified professionals such as physicians, nurses, dentists, health
educators, and other allied health personnel provide these services.
Nutrition Services: Access to a variety of nutritious and appealing meals
that accommodate the health and nutrition needs of all students. School
nutrition programs reflect the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans and
other criteria to achieve nutrition integrity. The school nutrition services
offer students a learning laboratory for classroom nutrition and health
education, and serve as a resource for linkages with nutrition-related
community services. Qualified child nutrition professionals provide these
services.
Health Promotion for Staff: Opportunities for school staff to improve their
health status through activities such as health assessments, health
education and health-related fitness activities. These opportunities
encourage school staff to pursue a healthy lifestyle that contributes to
their improved health status, improved morale, and a greater personal
commitment to the school's overall coordinated health program. This personal
commitment often transfers into greater commitment to the health of students
and creates positive role modeling. Health promotion activities have
improved productivity, decreased absenteeism, and reduced health insurance
costs.
Counseling and Psychological Services: Services provided to improve
students' mental, emotional, and social health. These services include
individual and group assessments, interventions, and referrals.
Organizational assessment and consultation skills of counselors and
psychologists contribute not only to the health of students but also to the
health of the school environment. Professionals such as certified school
counselors, psychologists, and social workers provide these services.
Healthy School Environment: The physical and aesthetic surroundings and the
psychosocial climate and culture of the school. Factors that influence the
physical environment include the school building and the area surrounding
it, any biological or chemical agents that are detrimental to health, and
physical conditions such as temperature, noise, and lighting. The
psychological environment includes the physical, emotional, and social
conditions that affect the well-being of students and staff.
Parent/Community Involvement: An integrated school, parent, and community
approach for enhancing the health and well-being of students. School health
advisory councils, coalitions, and broadly based constituencies for school
health can build support for school health program efforts. Schools actively
solicit parent involvement and engage community resources and services to
respond more effectively to the health-related needs of students.
http://www.state.tn.us/education/schoolhealth/
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