PH837 : School Health

Department

Department of Public Health

Academic Program

Bachelor in public health

Type

Compulsory

Credits

03

Prerequisite

Overview

By the end of the course, students are able to:

1. Understand the relationship between schools and their mission, and the history, policies, and interventions to promote health and prevent disease in schools.

2. Describe the structure and function of coordinated school health programs and the social, health, and academic benefits of these programs to schools, families, and communities.

3. Analyze how each coordinated school health program component contributes to the social, health, and academic outcomes of students, schools, families, and communities using a combination of current literature and in-school observations.

4. Apply the principles of coordinated school health to a specific public health problem to develop a set of policy and program recommendations for school health programs to address this problem.

Intended learning outcomes

A. Knowledge and Understanding

A.1

Describe the school health and structure of school health programs.

A.2

Describe Importance of school health programs.

A.3

Identify Objectives of school health programs

A.4

Describe Development of school health systems

B. Intellectual Skills

B.1

Assessment helps to plan and organize school health programs.

B.2

Describe the most important methods of Preventive for School Health

B.3

Future Vision of the school health.

B.4

Creation of data base (health information systems) for monitoring health.

B.5

Describe the Elements of school health programs.

C. Professional and Practical Skills

C.1

Observe the health history of the student

C.2

detection of illness and treatment.

C.3

Evaluative service of student’s health.

C.4

Identify Preventive services of the school health

D. General/Transferable Skills

D.1

Participate actively in teamwork.

D.2

Appreciate team work in seminar.

D.3

Interpret School Health reports.

D.4

Formulate a systematic approach for diagnosis of common school health problem .

D.5

Follow measure for infectious disease .

Teaching and learning methods

1. Lectures, power point presentations.

2. Discussion sessions.

3. Practical training.

4. practical visit for schools .

5. Assignments.

Methods of assessments

s.n.

Assessment Method

Due (week)

Weight (%)

Notes

1

Midterm exam

Week fifth and tenth

20%

Written

2

Oral exam

3

Practical exam

Week fourteen and sixteen

10%

Presentation or Report

4

Final exam

Week seventeen and eighteen

60%

Written

5

Assignments/HWs

Week four and week twelve

10%

Quizzes

Total (%)

100 %

Course References

Type

Title

Publisher

Edition

Author

Availability

Lecture notes

Sheets

Book shop

Reload this every year

Course coordinator

AV.

Textbook

Guideline Manual for School health

Reference books

Periodicals

Websites

Other

National strategy of School health

2013

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