Abstract
Adolescents may not regularly visit healthcare providers unless required for sports, camp physicals, or urgent matters. The one consistent place they do frequent, however, is school. School health services (SHS) address health by providing first aid or emergency care, or management of chronic conditions, as well as potential health problems (Center for Disease Control and Prevention & Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development in Components of the whole school, whole community, whole child (WSCC). Author, Atlanta, 2015). SHS staff include school nurses, dentists, nurse practitioners, physicians, physician assistants, health educators, and allied health providers. School nurses are the most common providers in schools (Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Results from the school health policies and practices study 2014. Author, Atlanta, 2015b). This chapter reviews the history, current structure, and future of SHS in the USA.
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Maughan, E.D., Bergren, M.D. (2017). School Health Services to Meet Adolescent Needs in the USA. In: Cherry, A., Baltag, V., Dillon, M. (eds) International Handbook on Adolescent Health and Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40743-2_27
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