School Health Resources

Studies have shown that attentiveness while seated behind the desk is directly proportionate to properly balanced rest, nutrition and exercise. Children who benefit from a well-rounded physical education program tend to be more alert, attentive, and focused in school, able to concentrate and stay on task for longer durations.

School Health

Infrastructure Components

Effective development of a coordinated school health program entails the commitment of resources within an education agency, and across state and local agencies. Four areas that are key to developing and maintaining a coordinated school health program are listed below. Here you will find links to sites that will help you develop your program.

Authorization and Funding

School Health Funding

National PTA School Health Resources

This area of the National PTA site has great resources for school health. You can sign up for Our Health, a bi-monthly publication highlights information on HIV Prevention and Comprehensive School Health Promotion Programs.

Communication and Linkages

http://catsis.weber.edu/pberger/17.htm

Offers a discussion of how to integrate your communication with other marketing efforts. Integrated marketing communication (IMC) is a cross-functional process for establishing and strengthening profitable relationships with customers and other stakeholders.

Resources

Sources for school health funding and the procedures required to access funds vary from state to state. The state revenue survey collected information about which states appropriate state revenue for school health programs, what programs and the amounts appropriated

Evaluation

Evaluation Resources provides a user-friendly program evaluation primer, step-by-step guidelines and online bibliographies and directories offer a wealth of information and assistance.

Community Level Indicators presents a discussion on ways to monitor the health of your community when you may not have enough resources for extensive surveying, feel that existing data (such as census data) are inadequate, and believe environmental factors influence health and want to find ways of measuring them. Examples given apply to communities. However, a bit of creative thinking could surface many examples of how these concepts could be applied in schools health and where they stand on the issues of school health.

National PTA information on integrated services. PTA statement and information about integrated services.

Communication and Marketing Offers

Social Marketing

This social marketing manual contains information on what social marketing is, what it can accomplish, the ethics and challenges of social marketing, a bibliography, and links to other social marketing web sites.

The Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University is a collection of over 3600 abstracts of children's picture books in a computerized database. Books may be sorted by over 850 keywords on a particular topic, concept, or skill. Health education teachers can search the database by health topics, concepts, and skills in order to create thematic, literature-based lessons for elementary school children.