Questions: Chapter 10
Continuing Education Questions for Chapter 10:
School-Site Health Promotion for Staff
Health Is Academic: A Guide to
Coordinated School Health Programs
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Area of Responsibility: Responsibility II -
Planning Effective Health Education Programs
The following questions are directly related to Chapter 10:
School-Site Health Promotion for Staff written by J.P. Allegrante in Health Is
Academic: A Guide to Coordinated School Health Programs.
The answer sheet is available by clicking here: Chapter 10 Answer Form.
Please answer the following questions:
1. The definition of school-site health promotion
for staff found at the beginning of Chapter 10 includes:
- Employee assistance programs, screening, and emergency care
- Physical and mental health services, insurance programs, and
aerobics activities
- Assessment, education, and fitness activities for school
faculty and staff
- All of the above
2. Examples of reported benefits of school-site
health promotion for staff include:
- School staff from 25 states improved their safety,
nutrition, and exercise behaviors
- A staff wellness program reported a significant drop in
teacher absences and saved schools $8,000 in costs for substitute teachers
- Participants in a health promotion program for school staff
emerged with positive attitudes and better morale
- All of the above
3. The essential functions of school-site health
promotion for staff are promotion of physical, emotional, and mental health, as well as
the prevention of disease and disability among school employees. Full-scale programs
typically involve:
- Screening and education
- Employee health care
- Employee assistance programs
- Any combination of the above
4. Examples of risk-factor reduction education and
activities for school staff given in Chapter 10 include:
- Special events, such as field days
- Information sharing through media such as inserts with pay
stubs
- Training in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- All of the above
5. Employee assistance programs handle confidential
information and generally are staffed by:
- Counselors in the employee's school
- The psychologist that serves the employee's school
- Mental health professionals who serve at the district level
- Union-hired mental health professionals
6. The first major effort to promote health among
teachers as an occupational group was:
- Schools Health Lifestyles Program in Battle Creek, Michigan
- Oregon's Seaside Health Education Conference
- The Health Enhancement Program developed in New York by a
physical education teacher
- The Team Nutrition Project fostered by the U.S. Department
of Agriculture
7. The PATH program demonstrated:
- How to cope with job stress and burnout while teaching in
urban centers
- How a university can provide technical assistance for
school-site health promotion
- How small grants can launch a successful school-site health
promotion program
- All of the above
8. Successful school-site health promotion
programs:
- Have a strong coordinator and a trained team
- Include leadership training and involve teamwork
- Work with a variety of providers, including colleges and
universities, and with local health care providers, such as hospitals
- All of the above
9. Key concepts that will guide future school
health promotion efforts for staff include all of the following except:
- Going beyond individual-level risk reduction activities
- Improving methods for evaluating the health outcomes and
cost-effectiveness of such programs
- Extending the focus to include all school staff, not just
teachers and administrators
- Using a variety of media to publicize and promote the
program
10. National- and state-level organizations can
support school-site health promotion initiatives by doing all of the following except:
- Providing economic and other incentives for schools that
implement such programs
- Identifying examples of exemplary school-site health
promotion for schools to replicate
- Creating mandates requiring such programs as part of block
grant funding
- Monitoring the impact of school-site health promotion
efforts on health benefits and insurance claims
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