Background: The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model offers a comprehensive framework for creating safe, healthy, and supportive school environments. However, few studies to date have examined the degree to which school policies represent a comprehensive and integrated approach to this goal beyond nutrition and physical…

Background: Bereaved children often struggle in the school environment and school personnel often feel inadequately prepared to support them. This pilot study explored the experiences and opinions of school staff regarding approaches to addressing the needs of bereaved students in the classroom. Methods: Teachers/school personnel (N = 29)…

Background: School violence is a significant public health concern. Most perpetrators exhibit psychosocial and behavioral warning signals which are often inadequately addressed. While policy and funding typically reinforce politically popular target hardening and threat assessment strategies, these are not most supported by research or requested…

Background: In school year (SY) 2014-2015, 128 schools in 24 districts and 14 states were randomly assigned to receive either onsite or online support to implement a school-based wellness program. The objective of this study was to assess the cost-effectiveness (CE) of the 2 models of implementation support: onsite and online. Methods: We adapted…

The article discusses the many and varied forces which influence the practice of school nursing and goes on to reassess the role in terms of activities essential to effective practice. (Author/BY)

The author contends that all educators must share in making health education more meaningful and relevant to the youngsters they serve. (Author)

In a speech presented before the 45th annual meeting of the American School Health Association, Chicago, 1971, the author speculates about the new role school physicians will play in the area of learning problems. (Author)

The author relates the experience of a high school with a pregnancy testing program. The most positive aspects of the program accrue from the fact that it permits followup by the nurse and school personnel of those girls continuing their pregnancies, and the reassurance that all possible alternatives to pregnancy and motherhood were explored…

The data indicate that physician and teacher have complementary skills, one in the form of refined diagnostic techniques applied at a moment in time, and the other in the form of relatively gross observation over prolonged periods of time. Teacher and physician need to combine resources to assess school health. (Author/BY)

Visits to the health office, described in this survey, were significantly greater among the oldest children, black students, children from families in which mothers had been recently hospitalized for illness, and among those lowest academic achievement. (Author)

The author focuses on the problems of adolescence. The aim of the paper is to: (1) examine and understand the problems of both the adolescent and his parents; (2) examine support available to both parties; and (3) suggest alternative ways for parents, adolescents, educators, and health professionals to cope with the core issues and difficulties of…