School Health Basics

School Health Basics

  • How school health is organized: An organization chart 
  • Lear JG. Health At School: A Hidden Health Care System Emerges From The Shadows. Health Affairs, March/April 2007; 26(2): 409-419. An overview of health providers and programs located in schools.

  • School-based Health Services and Adolescent health: Past, Present and Future. A research summary published in Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1996.
  • The Case for School Health, A presentation by Center director, Julia Lear to the Washington State Public Health Association, Yakima, WA, 2003 that focuses on the history of school health and its current opportunities.
  • The Future of Children’s Health at School: Opportunities for Community Schools and Health Program Partnerships. 
JG Lear at the Coalition for Community Schools Conference, Chicago, IL, March 10, 2005 on the importance of school-community partnerships in developing school health programs.
  • The Answer Is At School: Bringing Health Care to Our Students. Fifteen years ago, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s School-Based Adolescent Health Care Program (a predecessor to the Center for Health & Health Care in Schools) published this guide for the states and communities that were seeking to replicate the school-based health model. We continue to hear from people that The Answer Is At School: Bringing Health Care to Our Students remains helpful. For the complete original publication in pdf format, click here.