ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITY

The roles and responsibilities appropriate for each school health team to meet the
aim/objectives of School Health Services. After assigning roles and responsibilities, explain why
you chose the role and responsibility of that health team.

1. The school principal

- To ensure the program has been approved by the administrative authority.
- Setup a school health committee/ school health council to work out the school health plan.
- Ensure that teachers are adequately trained for health care of school-children.
- Provide facilities for school health activities.
- Make sure that proper health records are maintained.
- Ensure that parents are involved and follow up of children is done.

2. The school teacher

- Daily inspection of children for personal hygiene and cleanliness.
- Help in control of communicable diseases.
- Referral of child having any problem to school health clinic for further action.
- Informing the parents and maintaining follow up.

3. The parents
- They can help in correction of defects if any and follow up on children found sick.
- They can help in formation of good healthful living habits and behavior.
- Through PTA the parents can be involved in planning, organizing and implementing of school
health program.
- Participate in implementation of program activities.

4. The community
- Providing suitable land for school building.
- Providing funds and labor in building proper school.
- Participation in school health committees or council and contribute in formulation of school
health
policies and plan.
- Participate in implementation of program activities.
- Motivating parents to send their children to school.

5. The children
- Learn values of medical and health examinations, personal hygiene, good nutrition,
environmental
sanitation.
- Co-operate in various aspects of school health program.
- Develop positive habits and healthful living activities as educated upon.
- Extend this knowledge to other members of the family, and neighborhood.

6. The medical officer

- Help assess and diagnose needs and plans of action for individual and families.
- Giving first aid an emergency care to children.
- assesses the overall system of care and develops a plan for ensuring that health needs are met.

7. The school health nurse

- Help in providing safe environmental sanitation.
- Maintaining health records of children.
- Observation of children’s deviation from normal health, behavior, any communicable disease,
and malnutrition.

The above-mentioned roles for each school health team in which I believe they need to
specialize because those roles befit them which I divided among them although they have the
same objective which is to detect any health problems that can hinder academic achievement
of school children and early referral to enable early intervention and placement of students in
special education system, they need to perform these roles for the betterment of everyone
especially the health of those in school.

Estella-Rose Bayeng/Paul Marcos

AUGUST 2020