Assessing The Implemention And Practice Of The School Health Program In Some Basic Schools In The Kwabre
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2008-07-12
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This was a cross sectional descriptive study of the School Health Program in some basic schools
in the Kwabre district. The study was carried out between March and September 2008. The main
objective of the study was to assess the implementation and practice of the School Health
Program in some basic schools in the Kwabre district.
The district has two (2) hospitals, ten (10) Health Centers, ten (10) maternity homes and four (4)
clinics serving the population in the district.
Some of the issues that bothered the implementation and practice of the program, such as the
seemingly weak collaboration between the implementers, sponsorship of the program and the
health support services for the program, were studied. The study, therefore, sought to describe
the structure of the program as practiced in the district, the physical environment of the schools
that promote health, the health services and the role of implementers of the program.
The World Health Organization Expanded Program on Immunization (WHO EPI) 30 x 7 cluster
survey was used in determining the sample size of the survey. This included 30 basic schools, 30
community health nurses and a total of 210 parents (thus parents of 7 children in each school).
This was selected from the eighty-nine (89) communities in the five (5) sub districts.
Structured questionnaires and checklists were used for the data collection. The data were
analyzed using Epi info version 3.9.1.
The study revealed the program is poorly funded and implementers are not fully abreast with an
in-depth knowledge about the structure of the School health program. The implementation of the
program faces a major systemic challenge in the sense that there are no measures to monitor and
evaluate the activities of implementers. Also, the study brought to light the fact that the
community/parents are unaware of the role they are to play in supporting the implementation of
the program.
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A Thesis Submitted To The School Of Graduate Studies, Kwame
Nkrumah University Of Science And Technology, In Partial
Fulfilment Of The Requirement For The Degree Of Master Of Science
In Health Services Planning And Mangement
By
Nana Abena Afrah Boateng