The history of school health programmes.

1. OVERVIEW AND HISTORY OF
SCHOOL HEALTH
PROGRAMME
Presented By
Afolabi Moyinoluwa Amos
CLI/2017/024

2. OUTLINE
• Introduction
• Aims and Objectives of SHP
• Components of SHP
• History of SHP
• Reference
• Conclusion

3. • School Health is an important branch of Community health. According to
modern concept, SHP can be defined as the procedures that contribute to
the understanding, maintenance and improvement of the health of
pupils/learners and the school personnel.
• Its main goal is to ensure that learners are well enough to learn and the
school personnel are fit to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities.
• Dr Isaac Ladipo Oluwole (1892-1953) known as the Father of Public Health
also made a significant impact in School Health Programmes especially in the
1920s.

4. Health problems of the school child
• Malnutrition
• Infectious diseases
• Disease of skin, eye and ear.
• Dental caries.
All these warrant a programme that will emeliorate these problems.

5. Objectives Of SHP
• Promotion and maintenance of healthy growth and development in all
school
• Controlling the spread of communicable diseases in the school
• Promotion of optimum sanitary condition of the school
• Provision of emergency care for the learners
• Inculcating the principles of good health habit into the learners.

6. • Counselling learners, teachers and parents
• Offering good guidance to learners in the choice of professions
• Provision of social educational therapy for physically challenged children
• Protection and promotion of the health of the school personnel
• Appraisal of the health status of the learners in order to detect early any health
problems
• Promotion of school & community collaboration
• Early diagnosis, Treatment and follow up of defects.

7. Components of School Health Programme
1) Healthful School Environment,
2) School Feeding Services
3) Skills-based Health Education,
4) School Health Services,
5) School, Home and Community Relationships

8. HISTORY
• The recommendations for the school health programmes were defined at the
World Education Forum in April 2000 in Dakar.
• There they launched a new strategy for achieving the effectiveness of school
health in all countries of the world.
• This strategy was named FRESH (Focusing Resources on Effective School
Health)

9. • Before the 19th century, there were no school facilities. The British Empire started to
implement the western education in Nigeria only in the 19th century.
• The starting point was in 1842 with the primary education in Nigeria. The secondary
education in Nigeria started in 1859, with the First Grammer School in Lagos. However,
the sanitary standards for pupils were pretty low.
• Only in the beginning of the 21st century did the Federal Government of Nigeria start
to reform the National Health Policies and implement a new National Health
Programme. This is still active and has the goal of following the international standards
of health and the WHO recommendations.

10. CONCLUSION
If all components of School Health Programme are collectively adhered to,
there is a high guarantee of conducive and impactful learning process as well as
decreased risk of avoidable illnesses among learners as well as teachers and
other school personnel.

11. Thank you for listening.