Providing medical services through school-based health programs
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School-based health programs constitute a promising avenue for providing health services to young people, especially in areas where medical care is not widely available. Benefits of school-based health programs include their potential to serve those who would not otherwise have access to medical care, to educate students and reduce behavior-related health problems, to introduce students to the health-care system, and to identify and treat specifically adolscent health problems. The most common health services include assessment and referral, diagnosis and treatment of minor injuries, and primary health care. Counseling services include health and nutrition education and pregnancy counseling. The limits to school-based health programs are primarily a lack of funding but also include the exclusion of older teenagers who drop out of school, reduced hours of operation due to the times that school is not in session, and limited ability to follow up in patients.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1989
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Hepatitis B virus transmission in an elementary school setting
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The transmission of hepatitis B from a grade-school child to a teacher should not prevent teachers from admitting infected children to their classrooms. The teacher saw a doctor when she developed symptoms of hepatitis and testing revealed that she had hepatitis B infection. She denied the usual risk factors and none of her family members was infected. A child in her class was known to be infected and tests revealed that the teacher was infected with the same strain of virus. No other children in the class tested positive for hepatitis B.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1997
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Measles outbreak among school-aged children - Juneau, Alaska, 1996
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An outbreak of measles in Juneau, Alaska was traced to the Seattle-Tacoma airport. It was the first measles outbreak in Alaska since 1976 and affected 63 schoolchildren. This occurred despite widespread use of a measles vaccine. During the 1995-1996 school year, 99% of all schoolchildren in Juneau had received at least one dose of measles vaccine. However, almost half the children who got measles had not been vaccinated. The virus responsible for the outbreak resembled viruses prevalent in Europe but not in the US.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1996
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