1.School health personnel in primary and secondary schools in China
ZHAO Tianjie, ZHU Guangrong, HU Zhen, YAO Haizhou, WANG Haixue, MA Jun,DONG Yanhui
Chinese Journal of School Health 2021;42(11):1732-1735
Objective:
To understand the current status of the team structure of health personnel in primary and secondary schools, and to provide suggestions and references for strengthening and optimizing school health workforce.
Methods:
A nationwide stratified random cluster sampling method was adopted to select provinces for investigation in stratification from 2015-2016, a total of 16 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, 26 survey sites, 10 027 primary and secondary schools, 9 536 questionnaires of health personnel were collected.
Results:
Among the 9 536 school health staffs, there were various types of positions, and different types of schools had different position types construction. Elementary schools had the most part time health care teachers, accounting for 77.6%, while full time school doctors only accounting 10.0%; high schools had the most full time school doctors, accounting for 65.7%, and part time health care teachers only accounting for 15.1 %. There were various employment channels, with the most transfer jobs in schools, accounting for 70.7%. The series of professional titles were diverse, with the teaching profession accounting for 67.4%. Most of school health teachers had junior and intermediate professional titles, accounting for 42.6%, respectively. Proportion of medium, medium low, and low level of salary accounted for 39.3%, 27.9% and 21.1% respectively.
Conclusion
The educational background and age distribution of school health personnel is reasonable, but the proportions of medical background and full time school doctors are relatively low. School health personnel have various job types, professional titles, salary level, and limited space of career development. Top level design from the policy level, and clearly defined improve the structure of school health personnel to meet the needs of high quality development of school health work in the new era.
2.Current status and demand of health services in primary and middle school clinic in 16 provinces of China
Chinese Journal of School Health 2020;41(11):1716-1718
Objective:
To analyze the current situation and needs of primary and secondary school health clinic services, and to provide a reference for strengthening school health service in China.
Methods:
Investigation provinces were selected according to China s three major economic zones, 1 or 2 survey centers were selected from each province, 16 provinces and 26 survey centers were selected. In each survey centers, six schools from primary and secondary schools, junior high schools and high schools in urban and rural areas were randomly selected as research sites. Each research site randomly selected 10 students in each grade(grade three, four, five from primary schools) to fill in the questionnaire anonymously. A total of 4 661 valid questionnaires were collected.
Results:
Among the services provided by the school clinics to students, "trauma treatment" "consulting health problems" "physical examination" accounted for 49.4%, 40.5% and 39.0% respectively. Within the past one year, 45.1% students went to the school clinic for consultation or consultation 1-3 times, 6.4% for 4-5 times, and 3.7% for 6 times or more. When students were sick in school, 65.8%(primary school), 64.0%(junior high school), and 54.4%(high school) of them selected to go to the school clinic. When suddenly suffered trauma in school, 78.2%(primary school), 73.2%(junior high school) and 69.6%(high school) of the students went to the school clinic.
Conclusion
Primary and middle school students have a great demand for school health services, and it is necessary to continue to strengthen the construction of primary and secondary school health clinics.
3.Investigation on the literacy of scientific exercising among middle school students
Guangrong ZHU ; Jianjun GUO ; Mengmeng WEN ; Xiaomian FAN ; Haixue WANG ; Haizhou YAO
Chinese Journal of Health Management 2017;11(5):427-432
Objective To understand the current situation of scientific exercise literacy of middle school students,including basic knowledge,attitude,skills and exercise habits.Methods One middle school was selected from each of Shulan county in Jilin province,Wuxi city in Jiangsu province and Chengdu city in Sichuan province,including two junior high schools and one senior high school.Two classes were randomly selected in each grade from each of the three schools.All students in the selected classes took part in the study.1 360 questionnaires were distributed and all were collected,1 355 of them were qualified questionnaires.The questionnaire contains knowledge (12 items),attitudes (10 items),skills (1 items) and habits (3 items).The one who correctly answered 80% or more of the questions was considered as having the competent literacy.Results Among middle school students,27.4% had the scientific exercise literacy,47.5% had the knowledge literacy and 49.0% had the attitudes literacy for scientific exercise.68.8% reported regular exercise,but only 12.5% had exercise habits.Conclusion The level of scientific exercise literacy among middle school students is low,suggesting that multiple measures should be taken to improve scientific exercising knowledge and concept among middle school students,helping them to develop a scientific exercising habit and improve their literacy of scientific exercising.