School health is the branch of public health that works to improve health outcomes among students by enhancing health promotion, health care and services, and health literacy through coordinated programs delivered in schools. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention frames this work through the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model, a student-centered framework built with education and public health partners that stresses the connection between health and academic achievement and the value of evidence-based school policy and practice. The model expands on an earlier eight-element coordinated school health approach by combining it with a broader whole-child framework of student support.
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Central QuestionSourced to the subject's own accountWhat health and nutrition services, delivered through the school system itself, catch and address disease, disability and abuse in school-aged children early enough to matter. 1 Key DebateSourced to the subject's own accountWhich institution actually carries responsibility for a child's health while at school, the health system or the school system itself, is answered differently country by country, which is itself part of what the field studies. 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: School Health and Nutrition Services
WikipediaLead section
School-based health and nutrition services are provided through the school system to improve the health and well-being of children and in some cases whole families and the broader community.
United Kingdom section
The health of children and youth in the UK is the responsibility of the NHS rather than schools
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