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Checking Diseases Among Student: Now, a health policy for schools
By Leo11, Section News
It's not just the academic performance, now, schools will look after their students' health too. The ministry of human resources development (MHRD) and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), in association with World Health Organisation (WHO), have been formulating a comprehensive health policy under which schools will be equipped to prevent and control communicable disease and other health problems.
By making timely interventions, schools would also look after the emotional and social well being of children and initiate nutrition service programmes under the policy. The policy could be implemented from next year. The policy aims to advocate the value of a comprehensive and planned approach to school health through education and encourage partnerships with key stake holders including parents, students, health professionals, teachers and counsellors. ``Under the policy, there will be a sequential health education curriculum, which is to be taught from pre-kindergarten to Class XII to motivate and help students maintain and improve their health, prevent diseases, and avoid health related risk behaviours. It also emphasises on a nutrition service programme integrated within comprehensive school health education curriculum encouraging students to make healthy food choices,'' said a senior CBSE official.
Besides regular and systematic health check-ups, the policy involves psychological and social services programme designed to ensure access or referral to assessments, interventions, and other services for student's mental, emotional and social health. All these programmes will be supported by trained professionals.
The comprehensive health policy would apparently view ``health holistically, addressing the inter-relatedness of problems and the factors that influence health, within the context of the human and material environment and other conditions of life'' and ``harmonise health messages from various sources that influence students, including messages from the media, advertising, family and peers, among others.'' For getting the policy in place, schools needs to form action groups, plan and implement school health promotion activities beside monitoring and evaluating activities. ``There is a need for the school going children to learn, grow and move towards generating awareness and responsibility towards a health life, and sooner the better," said Dr Jitendra Nagpal, senior consultant psychiatrist of VIMHANS, who is also being consulted on the matter. "This policy would enhance the capacity of children and minimising their vulnerability towards a spectrum of health related concerns - physical, mental and social,'' he added. Source: TOI, 26/12/2007
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