The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

22 The Health Bulletin June, 1951Dr. Bertlyn Bosley, Nutrition Section,State Board of HealthMr. Charles E. Spencer, Director, SchoolHealth Coordinating ServiceMrs. Annie Ray Moore, Health Educator,School Health Coordinating Service.B. Ten Regional Planning Conferences.The staff of the School HealthCoordinating Service, with the cooperationof other divisions of the State Departmentof Public Instruction and theState Board of Health, the Welfare Department,the Parent-Teachers Associationand the State Medical and DentalSocieties conducted ten Regional SchoolHealth Conferences, to promote and assistwith planning for better schoolhealth programs on the local level.Many planning conferences in individualcounties were held after the regionalmeetings upon request of local healthofficer and school superintendent.Health EducationWorkshopA Health Education Workshop wassponsored by the School Health CoordinatingService and the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill from June13 to July 20, 1950.The purpose of the Workshop was toprovide opportunities for teachers, schooladministrators and health workers (1)to study the major health problems ofchildren and adults, (2) to assist themin planning functional programs to meetthe needs of their own particular schoolcommunitysituations, and (3) to gainbasic information and a mastery ofskills and techniques essential to thebest implementation of such programs.Six semester hours of graduate orundergraduate credit was given by theUniversity to those who completed thework.Financial aid in the amount of $750was given by the North Carolina Divisionof the American Cancer Society tothe University of North Carolina to beused toward general expenses of theWorkshop. Local Tuberculosis Associationprovided scholarships to individualparticipants from their respective countiesand cities. The State TuberculosisAssociation made a grant of $250.00 forgeneral expenses of the Workshop.Other Service of the Staff of the SchoolHealth Coordinating ServiceState planning and promotional workand services to school and health departmentpersonnel through consultativeservices, field visits, planning andcarrying on in-service education, productionof certain materials, reviewingand recommending use of materials, locateand recommend use of local, stateand national resources, evaluative procedures,joint state conferences andcommittees, state and national organizations.A. Health Services. This involvesworking with school and health departmentpersonnel in teacher screening andobservation of children with obvious deviationsfrom normal. Audiometer testing,physical and psychological examinationsare done and follow-up workwith parents carried on to get neededcorrections of defects. Consultant andpromotional and advisory services arealso given to promote better records andreports, and a promotion of activities isdirected towards making educational experiencesout of health services.B. Health Instruction. This involvesworking with teachers and administratorsin identifying and solving childhealth needs through experiences directedtowards improvement of habits, attitudesand knowledges. It involvesdirecting work with teachers in preparationof materials of instruction andevaluation in such areas as mental hygiene,community health, family lifeeducation, communicable disease controland sanitation, safety and personalhealth problems such as nutrition, dentalhygiene, rest and sleep, and care ofthe eye, ear, nose and throat and educationwith reference to harmful effectsof alcohol and narcotics.C. Healthful School Living. "The EnvironmentalAspects of Health." Thisinvolves assisting administrators inselecting and improving environmentalfacilities and in the care and use ofsuch facilities. It also involves work withadministrators in the organization ofthe total school health program to pre-