After more than two years of disrupted lessons during the pandemic, it's clearer than ever that schools are more than just places to learn: they are vital safe spaces for students to build friendships, receive nourishing meals and talk to trusted adults. And they can be more—schools can also provide health care.
The pandemic was hard on existing school-based health centers, and as we reckon with lost years of education, it's time for government at all levels to recognize that all children need accessible and affordable health care.
Delivering health care through schools has been shown to improve kids' physical well-being and educational outcomes. A 2005 study in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that after health centers opened in U.S. public schools, their students' risk of hospitalization for asthma went down 2.4-fold, and their trips to the emergency room for asthma decreased by 33.5 percent.
Got PPO the right to op out of unnecessary treatment and medication that can be harmful 🛑
Should be scam instead of sciam ... If only you would have stuck to Science and left politics out of it! your bias ruins your credibility! biased politics
Love the idea of health clinics at schools, but I hate large schools. How do we get the same benefits in smaller learning communities? We need to rethink schools (in USA at least) completely to make them more humane and to give every child a chance to thrive in the 21st century.