A computerized health and nutrition assessment for school children

Abstract

A comprehensive school health and nutrition program requires an interdisciplinary (team) approach to the delivery of services. To achieve this, a management system requiring participation of project components (mental, physical, educational, and nutritional) was implemented. The project required a comprehensive effort to assess the student's health status. The decisions were basically limited to set levels or values less than normal. This was accomplished by comparison of data collected with the charts shown in Tables 1 and 2 (all comparison charts are not shown in this paper). It is the intent of this health record to place emphasis on areas of weakness for individual students as well as strong areas.