Health Care Strategies for Elementary Schools.
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2015
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Aim: Every society uses a kind of strategy to provide health care for schools, so the aim of this study was to determine health care strategies for elementary schools.
Study Design: This is a qualitative study that conducted content analysis.
Place and Duration of the Study: This study was conducted in Isfahan, Iran, during 2014.
Methodology: This study was conducted on health care providers of elementary schools. By targeted sampling 17 healths care providers from 22 elementary schools were selected. 20 semi-structured interviews were performed. Data was analyzed using qualitative content analysis.
Results: Three concepts of social contribution (with two sub-categories of responsibility toward peers and cooperation), family-oriented (with three sub-categories of school and family interaction, parents’ desperateness and transparency of information between teachers and parents) and holism (with four sub-categories of students’ health problems, multidimensionality of health, social skills and promoting spirituality).
Conclusions: Using these approaches to provide health care for students could help to enhance the health of this group.
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Schools’ health, elementary school student, content analysis
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Abbaszadeh Abbas, Abedi Heidar Ali, Motaghei Minoo.Health Care Strategies for Elementary Schools. British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research. 2015; 9(12): 1-9.