Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics

The Korean Pediatric Society (대한소아청소년과학회)
권호 표지
DOI QR코드

DOI QR Code

The current status of the Korean student health examination

  • Received : 2013.03.15
  • Accepted : 2013.07.03
  • Published : 2013.08.15
Download PDF
⟨ Previous Next ⟩

Abstract

Recent trends place an emphasis on school health care, the ultimate goal of which is to protect, maintain, and promote students' health. School health care is a program that integrates health care services, health education, health counseling, and local social health services. The student health examination (SHE) system is a part of school health care and schools and communities must be available to provide professional health services. Pediatricians also have important roles as experts in both school health care and the SHE system. In this article, the history of school health care, its legal basis, and the current status of the SHE system in Korea are reviewed. Furthermore, sample surveys from the past few years are reviewed. Through this holistic approach, future directions are proposed for the improvement of SHE and school health care.

Keywords

References

  1. Veselak KE. Historical steps in the development of the modern school health program. 1959. J Sch Health 2001;71:369-72. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1746-1561.2001.tb03518.x
  2. Chang CG. Development of school health system and projects in Korea from 1945 to 2010. J Korean Soc School Health 2012;25: 143-6.
  3. Encyclopedia of Korean Culture. School health [Internet]. Seongnam: The Academy of Korean Studies; [cited 2013 Mar 1]. Available from: http://encykorea.aks.ac.kr.
  4. Song JC, Shin HJ, Kim IA, Kwon SC. Research on actual condition and improvement plan for SHE (sources of support for research: Daejeon Metropolitan office of Education). Daejeon: Daejeon Metropolitan office of Education, 2011:16-194.
  5. Lee HK. Report about the health status of Korean adolescents: a comprehensive overview of the Korean adolescent health through demographics. Korean J Pediatr 2006;49:1267-74. https://doi.org/10.3345/kjp.2006.49.12.1267
  6. Lee CG, Ahn DH, Seo JW, Shin CH, Lim DH, Jung SH, et al. Systematic research for the development of the Korea National Health Screening and Promotion Program for Children and Adolescents. Seoul: Korean Pediatric Society, 2009:61-234.
  7. American Academy of Pediatrics. Bright futures. 3rd ed. Elk Grove Village: American Academy of Pediatrics, 2008.
  8. U.S. Department of health and human services agency for healthcare research and quality. The guide to clinical preventive services 2010-2011. Recommendations of the U.S. preventive services task force. Rockville: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2010.
  9. Royal College of Paediatrics and Child. Health for all children, 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003:106-268.
  10. Greig A, Constantin E, Carsley S, Cummings C. Preventive health care visits for children and adolescents aged six to 17 years: the Greig Health Record - Executive Summary. Paediatr Child Health 2010;15:157-62. https://doi.org/10.1093/pch/15.3.157
  11. Royal Australian College of General Practitioners; National Preventive and Community Medicine Committee. Guidelines for preventive activities in general practice. Aust Fam Physician 2001; Spec No:S1i-xvi, S1-1-61.
  12. Chung SH, Park SS, Kim SD, Cho BS. The impact of early detection through school urinary screening tests of membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis type. Korean J Pediatr 2007;50:1104-9. https://doi.org/10.3345/kjp.2007.50.11.1104
  13. Yum MS, Yoon HS, Lee JH, Hahn H, Park YS. Follow-up of children with isolated microscopic hematuria detected in a mass school urine screening test. Korean J Pediatr 2006;49:82-6. https://doi.org/10.3345/kjp.2006.49.1.82

Cited by

  1. School Urine Screening Program in Korea vol.18, pp.2, 2013, https://doi.org/10.3339/jkspn.2014.18.2.57
  2. The current status of health data on Korean children and adolescents vol.39, pp.None, 2017, https://doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2017059
  3. Incidence and Surgery Rate of Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Nationwide Database Study vol.18, pp.15, 2013, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18158152