School health education programs and health services can directly help meet 34 objectives of the national disease prevention and health promotion strategy and can contribute to the attainment of 33 others. Objectives of the disease prevention strategy are discussed, and evolution of the project is recounted. (PP)

Three case studies of students with special health problems serve as an introduction to a discussion of the role of the school nurse in a community-based School Problems Clinic. The school nurse is responsible for obtaining medical information and making referrals, counseling parents, and monitoring the needs of special students. (JN)

A clinical experience program for student nurses provides a unique learning experience for the students and a service to the community. Components include classroom observation, screening skills, community assessment, home visits, classroom teaching, and field trips. (CJ)

Reports a national telephone survey that measured public support for seven proposals to restrict youth access to tobacco products. Nearly all respondents believed child and adolescent smoking was a serious problem. Most supported all proposed measures to restrict children's access to tobacco and to increase the cigarette excise tax. (Author/SM)

Discusses how to decide who should know about HIV-infected students, presenting national guidelines for helping make the decision. Suggestions for actual policy implementation focus on developing a plan for decisions, determining who else needs information, and deciding what to do when parents and schools disagree on who should know. (SM)

Presents Healthy People 2000's school-related objectives, focusing on those that can be attained directly by schools (arranged under the eight components of a multidimensional school health program) and those that can be influenced in important ways by schools. (SM)

Describes the Massachusetts experience of developing medication-administration regulations for public and private schools and implementing those regulations within the commonwealth. The model recognizes that school nurses and school physicians are the decision makers about medications in school. The regulations demand that school districts…

Ongoing behavioral research has documented the growing prevalence of adolescent health risk behaviors, such as tobacco use, sexual activity, alcohol and other substance use, nutritional behavior, physical inactivity, and intentional injury. Newer youth risk behaviors, such as pathological gambling, are emerging as threats to public health. Risk,…

The major objectives of child health strategy are the improvement of the health status of mothers, children, and adolescents, and the maintenance of coordinated, effective, and accessible systems of health care delivery, combining the resources of the Public Health Service and the states in cooperative undertakings. (JD)

This article presents the results of research to determine the extent to which school nurses see themselves functioning as part of a school health team, problems they perceive in their roles as team members, and if job satisfaction is related to the reported level of team functioning. (JD)

A nationwide campaign to improve and maintain immunization levels for selected preventable childhood diseases was instituted in 1977, and another program, whose goal was to eliminate indigenous measles by 1982, was instituted in 1978. Immunization levels have improved so much that attention is now focused on ways to maintain these high levels.…

This article advocates formation of six specific partnerships to facilitate establishment of comprehensive school health education, a planned sequential K-12 program that helps students develop knowledge and skills to lead healthy and fulfilling lives. Recommended partners include schools, public health agencies, private agencies, parents,…

Reviews accepted and nonaccepted modes of transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection, highlighting the estimated risk of each accepted mode. Concludes that schools must follow recommendations for universal precautions and avoid having fear become a barrier to admission of children with HIV infection. (SM)

Commentary is provided on the role of celebrities as media advocates for health education, particularly in light of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic. It is suggested that the media advocacy approach offers greater effectiveness to celebrity messages in stimulating health policy improvements. (GLR)

This article outlines aspects of maltreatment of children by parents or other adults, the ways of identifying symptoms of neglect or abuse, and the school's responsibility in observing and reporting such cases. (JD)