Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Abstract

Many states in the United States have mandated school health screenings for early identification and referral to professional services for a set of health conditions. Healthe Kids, a community-based program, began offering school-based health screenings to Missouri elementary schools in March 2007. The purpose of the article is to provide a description of the Healthe Kids program, including the team members, screening process, and the program’s underlying technology. Further, we present data gathered during the first 5 years of the Healthe Kids program in Kansas City, Missouri, and describe improvements to the program from lessons learned and implications to school nurses and health care delivery.

Keywords

screening risk identification electronic health records elementary early childhood early intervention

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

American Academy of Pediatrics. (2000). School health assessments. Committee on School Health. Pediatrics, 105, 875–877.

American Academy of Pediatrics. (2013). Health and mental health services. Retrieved November 1, 2013, from http://www.nationalguidelines.org/guideline.cfm?guideNum=4-18

Brener

N. D.

Wheeler

Wolfe

L. C.

Vernon-Smiley

Caldart-Olson

(2007). Health services: Results from the school health policies and programs study 2006. Journal of School Health, 77, 464–485.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2011). Healthy weight—It’s not a diet, it’s a lifestyle! About BMI for children and teens. Retrieved May 31, 2013, from http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/childrens_bmi/about_childrens_bmi.html

Children’s Hospital St. Louis. (2013). Advocacy and outreach. Healthy kids express. Retrieved November 1, 2013, from http://www.stlouischildrens.org/health-resources/advocacy-outreach/healthy-kids-express

Early and Periodic Screenings Diagnosis and Treatment and Title V Collaboration to Improve Child Health. (2013). EPSDT program background. Retrieved May 29, 2013, from http://mchb.hrsa.gov/epsdt/epsdtbackground.pdf

Institute of Medicine—Committee on Prevention of Obesity in Children and Youth. (2005). Preventing childhood obesity: Health in the balance. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.

Johnson

K. H.

Bergren

M. D.

(2011). Meaningful use of school health data. Journal of School Nursing, 27, 102–110.

Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences. (2013). Score 1 for health. Retrieved November 1, 2013, from https://www.kcumb.edu/departments/programs-centers/score-1/

10.

Kaye

May

(2010). State innovations in EPSDT. Washington, DC: The National Academy for State Health Policy. Retrieved May 31, 2013, from http://www.nashp.org/sites/default/files/StateInnovations.pdf

11.

Lear

J. G.

(2007). Health at school: A hidden health care system emerges from the shadows. Health Affairs (Millwood), 26, 409–419.

12.

Linchey

Madsen

K. A.

(2011). State requirements and recommendations for school-based screenings for body mass index or body composition, 2010. Preventing Chronic Disease, 8, A101.

13.

Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. (2013). Manual for school health programs. Retrieved November 1, 2013, from http://health.mo.gov/living/families/schoolhealth/pdf/ManualForSchoolHealth.pdf

14.

MoHealthNet. (2013). Professional billing book. Provider education unit MO HealthNet division. Retrieved June 28, 2013, from http://dss.mo.gov/mhd/providers/education/pro/promanual.pdf

15.

National Association of State Boards of Education State School Healthy Policy Database. (2013). Screening for health conditions. Retrieved May 29, 2013, from http://nasbe.org/healthy_schools/hs/bytopics.php?topicid=4100&catExpand=acdnbtm_catA

16.

National Institutes of Health, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, & U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2005). The fourth report on the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of high blood pressure in children and adolescents (NIH Publication No. 05-5267). Retrieved November 13, 2013, from http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/prof/heart/hbp/hbp_ped.pdf

17.

Schor

E. L.

Abrams

Shea

(2007). Medicaid: Health promotion and disease prevention for school readiness. Health Affairs (Millwood), 26, 420–429.

Health e Kids

Abstract

Keywords

Get full access to this article

References