The School-Based Health Center at Johnson Elementary School
In this age of decreasing resources and emphasis on cost-cutting and
efficiency, the School-Based Health Center at Johnson Elementary School
is a model for primary preventive health care and the promotion of health
with health education, early on-site assessment, diagnosis, treatment,
and referral, and maintenance of chronic conditions. These disease prevention
and health promotion activities are crucial for the conservation of dwindling
funds to provide low cost, resource-economizing solutions for potentially
costly long term health problems such as those associated with obesity.
Johnson Elementary School is one of 38 elementary schools in the Jackson
Public School district. It has an enrollment of almost 500 students,
all of whom are African-American. Approximately 80-90% of the students
are enrolled in the School-Based Health Center project.
In its sixth year of operation, the School of Nursing faculty involved
in the project continue to focus on the collection of health and educational
data as a basis for outcome measurement and future long-term studies
that may demonstrate correlation between school-based health care and
the School of Nursing’s Research Center for Excellence.
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