Specialists of the offices that ensure the strengthening of public health in communities and educational institutions of the country are preparing for the upcoming school year and invites parents of students to cooperate with public health specialists in educational institutions, to contact them on all matters related to the preservation and strengthening of children’s health.
SAM reminds that public health care services in educational institutions are provided by municipalities public health officesof which there are 49 in Lithuania. The health sector is represented by a large number of public health specialists in nurseries-kindergartens and schools implementing general education programs – as many as 843.
The main goal of their activity is to protect and strengthen the health of students, actively cooperating with parents (guardians, caregivers), teachers, student support specialists, and the school’s child welfare commission. Public health specialists carry out health monitoring of students, monitoring and prevention of health risk factors, develop students’ healthy lifestyle skills, organize students with chronic non-infectious diseases, the help necessary for student self-care in the educational institution.
August 28 In Kaišiadorys, the annual meeting-discussion of public health specialists was held “Current issues of public health care in the academic year 2023-2024”. During it, the challenges and topical issues of public health care for the coming academic year were reviewed, and good practices were shared with specialists.
“Public health offices operating in municipalities today are the main pillar that helps ensure health promotion activities throughout Lithuania, including educational institutions operating in their territory. In order to adapt to the changing conditions, it is necessary to assess progress every year and look several steps ahead – predict what challenges lie ahead in the coming school year and prepare for them,” says Audrius Ščeponavičius, director of the Public Health Department of the Ministry of Health.
Vidita Jonaitė, head of the Kaišiadorių District Public Health Office (VSB), says that a public health specialist in an educational institution is an important helper for the administration and teachers. “He is a person who has a large amount of knowledge based on science, is very creative and constantly improves his knowledge. Therefore, in institutions that accept a public health specialist in their school team, the result is clearly felt”, says V. Jonaitė.
The head of Kaišiadorių VSB emphasizes that the new school year will bring changes. “Life skills classes start in autumn – we hope to actively contribute to the start and success of these classes. And other long-term problematic issues are not going anywhere, for example, the organization of day rest in pre-school and pre-school educational institutions or primary and basic educational institutions, the sensitive issue of electronic cigarettes”, says V. Jonaitė.
At the same time, SAM invites parents of students to cooperate with public health specialists at the school, to contact them on all issues related to the preservation and strengthening of children’s health – starting with school hygiene issues and ending with ensuring the implementation of the family doctor’s recommendations. We encourage you to feel free to apply for the organization of help necessary for self-care of a student with a chronic non-infectious disease.
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