Coordinated School Health Programs

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Health Services refers to services provided for students to appraise, protect and promote Health. These services are designed to ensure access or referral to primary health services or both, foster appropriate use of primary health care services, prevent and control communicable disease and other health problems, provide emergency care for illness and injury, promote and provide optimum sanitary conditions for a safe school facility and school environment, and provide educational and counseling opportunities for promoting and maintaining individual, family, and community health. Qualified professionals such as physicians, nurses, dentists, health educators, and other allied health personnel provide these services.


Links of Interest 

The American Academy of Pediatrics 

The American Medical Association's Program on Child and Adolescent Health

The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools

The National Assembly on School-Based Health Care

National Association of School Nurses

The Society for Adolescent Medicine

Michigan Resources


MiChild Insurance Program

The Michigan Association of School Nurses

Michigan Department of Community Health
Immunizations

The Michigan Department of Education
School Health Services


This page last updated on: 01/30/03
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