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General school health services tools
HIV/AIDS school health services tools
Universal Precautions to Prevent the Transmission of HIV
This tool describes the standard precautions to be taken in schools to prevent HIV transmission, along with a list of the supplies that the school will need in order to apply them.
Screening for Abuse among Pregnant Teenagers
This tool provides basic techniques and a set of questions for school-based counsellors, clinicians, or teachers who work with pregnant teenagers, especially those who have been sexually or physically abused.
Characteristics of Youth-friendly Services
This tool is designed to help teachers, counsellors, service providers and other staff working in schools and HIV/AIDS or reproductive health clinics to improve their existing services for students at risk and make them “youth-friendly”.
Making Effective Referrals for Students at Risk of Infection with HIV
This tool is designed for school staff and school-based service providers responsible for students’ health care needs. It provides guidelines for assessing an individual’s risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, for making referrals to needed services, and for assuring the quality and efficacy of referral services.
Special Eating Needs of People Living with HIV
This tool provides information for service providers and teachers about special eating needs for people, including young people, living with HIV.
Food and nutrition school health services tools
Nutrition Services Questionnaire/Checklist
Intended for schools which already have a meal or food service programme in place, this tool will help the appropriate school staff, including service providers, to improve their services and assure effective implementation.
Guidelines to Develop and Implement School Feeding Programmes that Improve Education
This tool sets out seven step-by-step guidelines that will enable teachers and administrators to enhance the impact of School Feeding Programmes (SFPs) on education.
ORS Solution: A Special Drink for Diarrhoea
The information in this tool could be used to teach young people about ORS/ORT, to prepare education materials for families and the community, and to guide the delivery of health services related to diarrhoea at the school.
Helminths and hygiene school health services tools
School based Deworming Interventions: An Overview
This tool summarizes why and how schools might go about providing deworming interventions.
Dosage and Estimated Effectiveness of Drugs in Current Use for Treating Helminth Infections
This tool sets out the dosage and estimated effectiveness of drugs in current use to treat six common helminth infections: roundworm, whipworm, hookworm, schistosome, intestinal flukes and liver and lung flukes.
Using a Tablet Pole to Determine the Correct Dose of Praziquantel
This tool describes how to make and use a tablet pole that can be marked to show the correct number of praziquantel tablets, to the nearest half tablet, that should be given to a child, depending on his or her height.
Do's and Don'ts in School Worm Control
This tool provides basic recommendations for the planning and implementation of school-based treatment of heminthiasis.
Teacher Training to Recognize and Respond to Helminth Infection at School
This tool is meant to be used in a training workshop with teachers. It includes a short questionnaire that teachers use to evaluate and share their knowledge about helminths and helminth infections.
Important Helminths in School Children
This tool provides basic information about the helminths that most commonly affect school-age children.
Malaria school health services tools
Proper Care, Treatment and Use of Insect-treated Bednets (ITNs)
This tool provides full information about the appropriate care, treatment and use of insecticide-treated nets (ITN).
Diagnosing and Treating Malaria
This tool contains detailed information about the symptoms and treatment of malaria, including information about malaria drug resistance patterns and malaria chemoprophylaxis.
Violence school health services tools
Convention on the Rights of the Child
This tool provides information about the UN sponsored Convention on the Rights of the Child, its vision, current status, and global implications for children. Teachers could use this tool in secondary schools to inform their students what the international community considers to be the basic rights of every child.
Identifying and Helping Children with Aggressive Behaviour
This tool sets out a list of warning signs of potential violence among students and offers some useful tips on how to help students with violent behaviour apply a variety of strategies and methods.
Drugs, alcohol and tobacco school health services tools
Alcohol Screening Instrument
This tool is designed for school staff or school-based service providers to assist them in understanding why their students use alcohol. It can also be used by students who drink alcohol to make self-assessments.
Guidelines for Individual Drug Counselling in Schools
This tool is intended for use in a variety of substance abuse counselling settings. It has been adapted here for use by teachers or drug counsellors at schools to help them to understand the art of individual counselling.
Basic Skills for Identifying, Counselling and Making Initial Contact with Students who Use Drugs
This tool sets out expert recommendations and offers guidelines to teachers and other school staff to assist them in identifying students they suspect to be using drugs, approaching suspected drug users, and making initial contact with them. |
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General school health services tools
HIV/AIDS school health services tools
Universal Precautions to Prevent the Transmission of HIV
This tool describes the standard precautions to be taken in schools to prevent HIV transmission, along with a list of the supplies that the school will need in order to apply them.
Screening for Abuse among Pregnant Teenagers
This tool provides basic techniques and a set of questions for school-based counsellors, clinicians, or teachers who work with pregnant teenagers, especially those who have been sexually or physically abused.
Characteristics of Youth-friendly Services
This tool is designed to help teachers, counsellors, service providers and other staff working in schools and HIV/AIDS or reproductive health clinics to improve their existing services for students at risk and make them “youth-friendly”.
Making Effective Referrals for Students at Risk of Infection with HIV
This tool is designed for school staff and school-based service providers responsible for students’ health care needs. It provides guidelines for assessing an individual’s risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, for making referrals to needed services, and for assuring the quality and efficacy of referral services.
Special Eating Needs of People Living with HIV
This tool provides information for service providers and teachers about special eating needs for people, including young people, living with HIV.
Food and nutrition school health services tools
Nutrition Services Questionnaire/Checklist
Intended for schools which already have a meal or food service programme in place, this tool will help the appropriate school staff, including service providers, to improve their services and assure effective implementation.
Guidelines to Develop and Implement School Feeding Programmes that Improve Education
This tool sets out seven step-by-step guidelines that will enable teachers and administrators to enhance the impact of School Feeding Programmes (SFPs) on education.
ORS Solution: A Special Drink for Diarrhoea
The information in this tool could be used to teach young people about ORS/ORT, to prepare education materials for families and the community, and to guide the delivery of health services related to diarrhoea at the school.
Helminths and hygiene school health services tools
School based Deworming Interventions: An Overview
This tool summarizes why and how schools might go about providing deworming interventions.
Dosage and Estimated Effectiveness of Drugs in Current Use for Treating Helminth Infections
This tool sets out the dosage and estimated effectiveness of drugs in current use to treat six common helminth infections: roundworm, whipworm, hookworm, schistosome, intestinal flukes and liver and lung flukes.
Using a Tablet Pole to Determine the Correct Dose of Praziquantel
This tool describes how to make and use a tablet pole that can be marked to show the correct number of praziquantel tablets, to the nearest half tablet, that should be given to a child, depending on his or her height.
Do's and Don'ts in School Worm Control
This tool provides basic recommendations for the planning and implementation of school-based treatment of heminthiasis.
Teacher Training to Recognize and Respond to Helminth Infection at School
This tool is meant to be used in a training workshop with teachers. It includes a short questionnaire that teachers use to evaluate and share their knowledge about helminths and helminth infections.
Important Helminths in School Children
This tool provides basic information about the helminths that most commonly affect school-age children.
Malaria school health services tools
Proper Care, Treatment and Use of Insect-treated Bednets (ITNs)
This tool provides full information about the appropriate care, treatment and use of insecticide-treated nets (ITN).
Diagnosing and Treating Malaria
This tool contains detailed information about the symptoms and treatment of malaria, including information about malaria drug resistance patterns and malaria chemoprophylaxis.
Violence school health services tools
Convention on the Rights of the Child
This tool provides information about the UN sponsored Convention on the Rights of the Child, its vision, current status, and global implications for children. Teachers could use this tool in secondary schools to inform their students what the international community considers to be the basic rights of every child.
Identifying and Helping Children with Aggressive Behaviour
This tool sets out a list of warning signs of potential violence among students and offers some useful tips on how to help students with violent behaviour apply a variety of strategies and methods.
Drugs, alcohol and tobacco school health services tools
Alcohol Screening Instrument
This tool is designed for school staff or school-based service providers to assist them in understanding why their students use alcohol. It can also be used by students who drink alcohol to make self-assessments.
Guidelines for Individual Drug Counselling in Schools
This tool is intended for use in a variety of substance abuse counselling settings. It has been adapted here for use by teachers or drug counsellors at schools to help them to understand the art of individual counselling.
Basic Skills for Identifying, Counselling and Making Initial Contact with Students who Use Drugs
This tool sets out expert recommendations and offers guidelines to teachers and other school staff to assist them in identifying students they suspect to be using drugs, approaching suspected drug users, and making initial contact with them. |
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