PUBLIC HEALTH, NURSING AND MEDICAL SOCIAL WORK

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
Previous discussions in this column have reviewed the logic behind health services for children of school age and have discussed the kinds of plans likely to be successful and to be of benefit to the children, the community, and the practicing pediatrician. Several recent reports, notably the First Report of the Expert Committee on School Health Services of the World Health Organization, have called attention to the specific reasons why particular attention needs to be given school children in the broad spectrum of child health services, as well as in the practice of the clinical pediatrician. There are two unusual needs—the ever present process of growth and development with its complications in adolescence, and the stress, strain, and exposure to contagion in the group living characteristic of school life; there are two unusual opportunities—the inherent educational environment with its possibilities for lifelong sound health attitudes and habits, and the existence of the school as a community unit, involving participation by almost the entire population. There has been repeated emphasis on the need for wholehearted participation by private practitioners in this program, particularly because of the recognized and accepted fact that the most desirable status is for each child to be followed continuously by his own pediatrician.

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: