The Health and Well-Being of San Fransisco Unified School District Students K-12

Abstract:
This report is an assessment of the health status of the San Francisco Unified School District's (SFUSD)students, as of 1999. The report was developed under the auspices of the San Francisco Citywide School Health Planning Committee as part of a needs-assessment process in the planning for public school-linked/school-based health services. It has compiled available health status indicators for the K-12 population, in addition to economic and psychosocial measures that greatly influence a population's health. It highlights the recurrent themes found among the statistics gathered; namely, the poverty among the SFUSD students, a listing of the most immediate threats to the health and education of students, the disparities of African American students, and some positive notes. The report then presents the compiled statistics under the following headings: demographics, poverty, school attendance, dropouts/suspensions, special education, health insurance, disabled children, teen pregnancy, immunizations, dental health, asthma, youth risk behaviors, and school-based health services. This report can serve as a baseline from which the SFUSD can establish goals and actions to ensure the health promotion of its students.


Date Published: 11/1/1999

Pages: 23

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Location Code: 8425