School-based health care [electronic resource] : advancing educational success and public health / editors, Terri D. Wright and Jeanita W. Richardson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wright, Terri D.

Richardson, Jeanita W., 1957-

American Public Health Association.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School health services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (501 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : APHA Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While there are numerous books and articles that concern themselves with dimensions of health and school-aged children and youth, this will be the first volume addressing practice, policy, and applied research on outcomes and impacts particular to school-based health care. This edited book, the first of its kind in over 20 years, attempts to address that need by capturing the current knowledge on school-based health care from the field of practitioners, researchers and policy advocates.

Contents:

section 1. School-based health care : practice interventions, outcomes, and impacts from the field

section 2. Propelling the school-based health care movement : the W.K. Kellogg foundation school-based health care policy program

section 3. Strategic partnerships for fiscal and policy advocacy

section 4. School-based health care : looking to the future.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-87553-261-6

OCLC:

826853577