Encyclopedia of School Health – eBook PDF: Children and kids spend more time at school than anywhere else except home; thus, schools can have a major effect on a kid’s health by providing a healthy physical environment, serving meals and snacks built around sound nutritional guidelines, and teaching about health, as well as promoting and modeling healthy behaviors. School health services programs involve not only school nurses and focus not only on nursing standards,practice, and performance issues; they also include services and classes to teach school students the information and skills they need to become health-literate, to maintain and improve...
Encyclopedia of School Health – eBook PDF