Building a Partnership to Evaluate School-Linked Health Services: The Cincinnati School Health Demonstration Project

Autor/inn/en	Rose, Barbara L.; Mansour, Mona; Kohake, Kelli
Titel	Building a Partnership to Evaluate School-Linked Health Services: The Cincinnati School Health Demonstration Project
Quelle	In: Journal of School Health, 75 (2005) 10, S.363-369 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4391
Schlagwörter	Urban Youth; Educational Facilities; Demonstration Programs; Urban Schools; Student Mobility; School Health Services; Integrated Services; Elementary Education; Program Evaluation; Partnerships in Education; Child Health; Student Welfare; Computer Uses in Education; Organizational Communication; Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Urban area; Urban areas; Youth; Stadtregion; Stadt; Jugend; Bildungsstätte; School; Schools; Schule; Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; Schuleingangsuntersuchung; Elementarunterricht; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Studentenseelsorge; Computernutzung; Analogiemodell
Abstract	The Cincinnati School Health Demonstration Project was a 3-year collaboration that evaluated school-linked health services in 6 urban elementary (kindergarten to eighth grade) schools. Partners from the Cincinnati Health Department, Cincinnati Public Schools, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati wanted to determine if levels of school-linked care made a difference in student quality of life, school connectedness, attendance, emergency department use, and volume of referrals to health care specialists. School nurses, principals and school staff, parents and students, upper-level managers, and health service researchers worked together over a 2.5-year period to learn about and use new technology to collect information on student health, well-being, and outcome measures. Varying levels of school health care intervention models were instituted and evaluated. A standard model of care was compared with 2 models of enhanced care and service. The information collected from students, parents, nurses, and the school system provided a rich database on the health of urban children. School facilities, staffing, and computer technology, relationship building among stakeholders, extensive communication, and high student mobility were factors that influenced success and findings of the project. Funding for district-wide computerization and addition of school health staff was not secured by the end of the demonstration project; however, relationships among the partners endured and paved the way for future collaborations designed to better serve urban school children in Cincinnati. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10