Public Health Care Foundation

Proposal
on
School Health Program
1. Introduction :
School health program is an integrated set of planned activities and service designed to promote the
optimal physical, emotional, social and educational development of students and staffs. This program
should be supported by families and local communities since it is based on their needs, resources,
standards and requirements. This program is conducted and supported by a multidisciplinary team and
accountable for the comprehensive development of the health status of the children by ensuring
preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative health service to them.

Health and learning are inextricably intertwined. For the better performance in the studies and also for
overall development it is necessary for a child to be a healthy. In our context being a developing
country, we don't have sufficient infrastructure and resources. They also don't have facilities for regular
physical health checkup and assess to health information for the prevention and proper treatment. Due to
these various constrains and limitation school childrens are facing various sorts of health problems like,
nutritional problem, infections diseases due to poor hygine, violence, drug abuse, sexually transmitted
diseases including HIV infection, unintended pregnancy, dropout from the school, disrupted family
pressure. Similarly there is also a high chances of spreading the communicable dieases.

These various problems have serious negative influence in their studies as well as effect their physical
and mental health development. It also influence greately on the social and emotional well being of the
childrens. So by conducting the school health program we can address their problems by providing the
opportunity to have assess to information and by giving regular health examination service for the
timely treatment of the health problems.

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School health program is a promising approach to address these concerns. It is also a cost effective
approach for improving the overall health status of the school children. promoting the health and well
being of children and adolescents is a generally regarded to be important in our society. because they
lack the resources, knowledge and skills to function independently. It is also important to realize that
the children and adolescents of today are the productive citizens of tomorrow who have a great
responsibility for their nation, so it is all an investment focused on the most valuable resources i.e. on
our youth who are the future builders of this nation.

School should play an important role to prevent and promote the healthy behaviour of the students and
also to cure and rehabilate their health issues, if they are suffering from any of such problems. So for
addressing such things school health program helps to achieve this goal.

2. Rational
The Importance of school health program can influence the health and well being of students since it has
a great influence on the children.

Health and learning are closely interrelated. If the students have good health and the environment
within the school is safe, clean and healthy then it well have positive influence in the learning process.
As such, health was place first with regards to the objectives of education.

School is also the very susceptible place for the spread of communicable diseases, so we should be
concerned about the health status and wellbeing of the students, which can be ensured by regular health
examination and by providing sufficient information.

In various literatures we could find that, student who are not healthy, suffers from an undetected vision
or hearing deficit, or who is hungry, or who is impaired by drugs or alcohol, is not a student who will
profit optimally from the educational process, Likewise, an individual who has not been provided
assistance in the shaping of healthy attitudes, beliefs and habits early in life will be more likely to suffer
consequences of reduced productivity in later years.

It is a costeffective approach from which we can get outcome with minimum resources.

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3.Components of School Health

Health
Healthy Education
Parent and
school Community
environment involvement

School
Physical Health
education Program Health Service

Counselling
Health
and
Promotion
Psychological
for staff
service
Nutrition
service

4. Goal
To improve the overall heath status of the students, by providing comprehensive health care service
through school health program.

5. Objectives
To prevent the illness, cure the disease; rehabilitate the disabilities as well as promote the health and
well being of the students through:
 Early detection and care of students with health problems
 Provide regular health check service for the students
 Development of healthy attitudes and healthy behaviors of students
 Ensure a healthy environment for school children

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  Prevention of communicable diseases at school
 Strengthen the community involvement for the improvement of overall health status of the
children

6. Target Group
 Children studying in the school and School staffs
 Community Peoples
7. Mathodology
 By conducting lecture on various health awareness activities
 By conducting regular health screening camps is school
 By providing appropriate referral service
 By organizing the talk program with the involvement of school teachers and parents of the
students on the emerging health issues.
 By the publication of the bulletin containing the healthful information

8. Planned Activities
Activities Planned for below class seven
 Regular physical examination ( General check up, dental, eye check up and if necessary provide
the referral service)
 Provide the importance of immunization and also immunize the children with various vaccines
that are provided after one year e.g. (Polio, Hepatitis ,Thyphoid ,TT etc)
 Maintain the personal health record file of each student.
 Conduct health education to prevent various infections diseases (e.g. Intestinal worms, Diarrhoea
and dysentery etc) that are commonly occurring among the school children.
 Aware the students on personal hygiene (Dental caries, importance of bathing and washing,
clean and regular nail cutting)
 Inform about the consequences of drinking unclean and polluted water and also provide various
ways to purify water and drink safe water.
 Importance of nutrition for proper growth and development ( importance of Vitamins, Minerals,
fat diet, protein diet and carbohydrate as a major energy providing food). Similarly discourage

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 the use of various confectionaries and junk food that have low nutritious value but have negative
consequences on health.
 Establish healthful school clubs

9. Activities Planned for class seven to ten

 Regular physical examination ( General check up, dental, eye check up and if necessary provide
the referral service)
 Provide the importance of immunization and also immunize them with various vaccines that are
provided after one year like Hepatitis , thyphoid etc
 Maintain the personal health record file of each student.
 Awareness program on physical ( growth and development) and reproductive health issues.
 Address the behavioral problems and psyschological changes
 Counseling to overcome such problems and to improve their concentration.
 How to stand up against Peer pressure
 Ability to recognize the difference between reality and media portrayal
 Address on the various communicable/infectious disease (STDs and HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis etc)
and various other problems (like Drug abuse, underweight, Obesity) that occur among this age
group.
 Address various life style related diseases and ways to improve it.

10. Activities for the teachers and school management committee

 Provide various health related trainings which are friendly for improving the health status of the
students and to maintain the healthy school environment

11. Activities for Community

 Conduct various awareness program and health service by organizing health camps
 Conduct Vaccination program

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12.
Public Health Care Foundation Nepal
School Health Programme

Complete Package Service

S.n Program Time Rate Total cost Remark
per year

1. Health Education and awarness Yearly Supported By : PHCF Nepal If the classroom education Program
and SCH&RC to be conducted more than yearly th
programe should be supported by School and V
& other Organization
a. Communicable Diseases ,,
b Non – Communicable Diseases ,,
c. Reproductive and sexual health ,,
d. Nutrition ,,
e. Health and hygine ,,
f. New emerging disease ,,
h. Community and School health Environment Half Yearly Joint
program
2. Health Service
a. Periodic General Health Examination Regular OPD Rs.10 per student per month Rs.120
yearly
b. Eye check up Half Yearly Rs.25 per student Rs.50
c. Dental Check up Half yearly Rs.25 per student Rs.50
d. Ear Check up Half Yearly Rs.25 per Rs.50
e. First aid service Regular Free free
3. Speicmen Investigation
a. Blood Grouping Once Rs.50 per student Rs.50 These services can be taken more tha
mentioned in the schedule with
b. Stool check up Half Yearly Rs.25 per student Rs.50 additional cost. Similarly
investigation can also be done
demanded by the school with addit
As needed ................. ................ ........... cost.
c.
4. Establishment of the School Health Committee Supported By : PHCF Nepal
a. Establis School health center and Student Clubs
and train the clubs students on health issue
b. Provide first aid training and Using first aid
c. Regular Monitoring of the School health
5. Maintiain personal health record file of each students
6. Training for SMT and Teacher
7. Community Program
a. Screnning
b. Awareness Program