253983 Different Setting, Different Care: Integrating Prevention and Clinical Care in School-based Health Centers

Tuesday, November 1, 2011: 10:30 AM

Serena Clayton, PhD , California School Health Centers Association, Oakland, CA
     
Clayton provides several descriptive and promising examples of a range of programs and services offered by school-based health centers in California that have integrated clinical care and services with public health concepts. Centers are providing primary and public health programs that focus on obesity prevention and improved access to healthy food in schools for example. They are providing mental health services while changing the school climate for improved race relations between students and faculty and implementing anti-bullying campaigns. Asthma management offers a special opportunity to integrate public health with clinical care.

Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programs
Public health or related education

Learning Objectives:
Describe the ways in which SBHCs can promote health and prevent disease and risky behaviors in school-age youth.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have over ten years experience working with school-based health centers on evaluation, policy, and practice. I am the director of California’s state association of school-based health centers.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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