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Show Healthy children emphasized maintaining a safe school environment en-vironment ; coordinating special education health services; and establishment of a school-community school-community health program. For more information about school health, contact Kathleen Stillion-Allen at 533-4575. "A Healthy Child: The Key to the Basics" is the 1984 emphasis of a state and national effort to promote the importance of comprehensive school health programs. "As more and more parents, teachers and administrators urge their local school boards to return to the basics, one basic that cannot be overlooked is good health," said Kathleen Stillion-Allen, R.N., M.S., school health consultant for the Utah Department of Health, Division of Family Health Services. According to Stillion-Allen, healthy students perform better academically than unhealthy students. "A comprehensive school health program encourages students to lead a healthy, active life and can identify those health problems that may interfere with a successful academic career," she added. The school nurse plays a central role in the comprehensive school health program. The school nurse is involved in many activities designed primarily to prevent illnesses and injuries, and where health problems exist, identify and deliver needed services to students. A school nurse's services may include: hearing, vision and other screening programs; health education; managing com-' municable disease . programs |