Universal health coverage for students as the fundamental task of school health
10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2020.01.001
- VernacularTitle:学校卫生的根本任务是实现学生健康全面覆盖
- Author:
TAO Fangbiao
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Author Information
1. Universal health coverage for students as the fundamental task of school health/〖WTBX〗TAO Fangbiao.Department of Maternal,Child,and Adolescent Health,School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Key Laboratory of Population Health Across Life Cycle，Ministry of Education of the People&rsquo
2. s Republic of China, Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Population Health and Aristogenics, Hefei(230032), China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Student health service;
Child;
Adolescent;
Hygiene
- From:
Chinese Journal of School Health
2020;41(1):1-4
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Abstract:Children and adolescents undergo striking physical, intellectual, and emotional growth while receiving collective education. It’s a developmental period highly influenced by the unhealthy behaviors and lifestyles, and characterized with multiple newly emerging health issues, including lower mortality declines in adolescents compared with children under five, higher prevalence of myopia and obesity at younger ages, improved but still declining physical fitness, as well as vulnerability to a range of mental health conditions. School health is an indispensable component of public health in China, with an ultimate goal of maintaining and promoting good health for children and adolescents. School health in the new era should echo the action of Healthy China initiative, fulfilling government functions fully and correctly, and achieving universal health coverage for students, which is broadly guaranteed by the implementation of Healthy China strategy at present. Collective action for myopia prevention and control presents as the forerunner of universal health care for students across China.
