School Heath
Resource Brief
Table of Contents
Web
Sites
Recent Publications
Additional Organizations
to Contact
Related MCH Library Resource Lists
Web
Sites
- American
Academy of Pediatrics, Council on School Health: School
Health Resources
Resources for pediatricians and other health professionals.
- Center
for Health and Health Care in Schools
Information for policymakers and the public on alternative
approaches to school-based health programs and services,
including opinion polls and survey results, bibliographies,
brochures, fact sheets, research papers, an electronic
journal, and information kits.
- Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, Division on
Adolescent and School Health (DASH)
School heath programs, strategies, databases, and curricula;
data and statistics; featured health topics; additional
resources.
- ERIC
Education Resources Information Center
Database of publications on many educational topics,
including school health, breakfast and lunch programs,
physical education, school nurses, and sports medicine.
Free full-text access is available for many documents.
- MedlinePlus:
School Health
News, overviews, nutrition, related issues (safety,
disease prevention, mental health), research, organizations,
law and policy, statistics, children, teenagers,
and links to sources of information in Spanish and
local school health services in some states.
- National
Assembly on School-based Health Care
Resources to enable school-based health centers to
deliver affordable, high-quality services and play
an active role in public policy. Tool kits, health
education materials, behavioral health and clinical
resources, virtual tour of two school health centers.
- National
School Boards Association (NSBA), School Health
Programs
Resources to help policymakers and educators make
informed decisions about health issues including
"101" information
packets such as Asthma in Schools 101 and Tobacco
Use Prevention 101, a health newsfeed, NSBA health-related
publications, and the School Health Resource Database,
which contains abstracts of more than 3,000 articles,
training tools, and policy samples.
From the MCH
Library Databases
Recent
Publications
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Organizations to Contact
Related
MCH Library Resource Lists
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Authors: Olivia K. Pickett, M.A., M.L.S., Beth DeFrancis
Sun, MCH Library
October 2006
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