Health
Services:
Services provided for students to appraise, protect, and promote
health. These services are designed to ensure access or referral to primary
health care services or both, foster appropriate use of primary health care
services, prevent and control communicable disease and other health
problems, provide emergency care for illness or injury, promote and provide
optimum sanitary conditions for a safe school facility and school
environment, and provide educational and counseling opportunities for
promoting and maintaining individual, family, and community health.
Qualified professionals such as physicians, nurses, dentists, health
educators, and other allied health personnel provide these services.