A Study of Periodic School Medical Examinations. IV. Education Aspects

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Abstract
A group of school children who had received 4 annual pediatric health appraisals in schools were questioned and their mothers interviewed 8 to 18 months after the last examination. When compared to responses of a control group of mothers and children no significant educational effect of the annual examinations was apparent Significant differences by socioeconomic level existed for both groups. It appears more important to adjust all features of a school health program (including the frequency of routine medical examinations) to the differing needs of the individual school and communities than to follow a standar-ized pattern of. frequent examinations whose case-finding and educational values are dubious.

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