Health Care Strategies for Elementary Schools
Abbas Abbaszadeh
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Heidar Ali Abedi
Department of Medical Sciences, Khorasgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.
Minoo Motaghei *
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kerman University of Medical sciences, Kerman, Iran.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
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.
Keywords: Schools’ health, elementary school student, content analysis