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are school health services meeting their needs?

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are school health services meeting their needs?

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Hillemeier MM; Gusic ME; Bai Y Department of Health Policy and Administration, Pennsylvania State University, 116 Henderson, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA. mmh18@psu.edu OBJECTIVE: Children with asthma spend a large portion of their day in school, and the extent to which public schools are prepared to meet their health needs is an important issue. The objective of this study was to identify asthma policies and practices in rural and urban school settings and to compare them with current National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute recommendations. METHODS: A stratified random sample of school nurses who represented each of the 500 active Pennsylvania school districts were surveyed in 2004 concerning nurse staffing patterns, availability of asthma monitoring and treatment-related equipment, emergency preparedness, availability of asthma-related support and case management services, school-specific procedures including identification of children with asthma and accessibility of i

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