School age is a period of physiological and psychological changes.
Support for an adequate level of physical health for children requires constant monitoring and supervision. Some parameters of physical health of schoolchildren require preventive examinations, X-ray and ultrasound examinations, laboratory data.
Healthy surrounding school environment
A significant part of their lives children spend in school. Very often, school premises do not meet sanitary and hygienic standards and present an increased risk to the health of children.
There are many steps taken by parents and teachers that contribute to a healthy school environment. Various programs are being developed, thanks to which the health of children is protected in one of the important places in their life - schools. The health of students in school depends largely on the quality of the water they consume, the cleanliness of the air in the premises.
School location
School placement and design are examples of how a certain environment in which they spend most of their time affects children's health. When a child goes to school, which is at a considerable distance from home, this deprives him of the opportunity to actively move. The child has to get to school by public transport. And this is a high probability of the emergence of infectious diseases and nervous tension, which adversely affects the health of the student.
Many schools are designed and reconstructed, taking into account the promotion of children's health and their academic performance. Such schools have large windows that give a lot of light, fresh air and space, and also use building materials that do not pose a danger to children's health.
Parks and greenery around the school are another example of anthropogenic environment that contributes to the health of children. Studies show that most children benefit from the ability to play and exercise outdoors. Playgrounds and sports facilities, safe routes leading to and from school from home are an invaluable strategy for a design community that is healthy for children.
Physical activity
The motor activity of children is an important factor in supporting overall well-being, which affects all aspects of health - physical, psychological and social.
Motor activity develops muscles, helps maintain an ideal weight, reduces the risk of various diseases. Physical education of children in school is a guarantee of good health for many years.
Healthy Eating
One of the main indicators of good health is the proper nutrition of schoolchildren. The role of nutrition in maintaining child health is very great.
The rational nutrition of children in school is of no small importance for their health. The composition of products entering the school canteens is strictly controlled. The composition of a full-fledged diet should include fats, proteins and carbohydrates, as well as vitamins, inorganic substances and microelements. For healthy eating of children, more than forty essential substances are needed. Among them, and fiber, which promotes the leftovers of food in the intestines.
Features of the action of tobacco and alcohol
Smoking, unfortunately, today is a very common bad habit among children who study at school. Their health can be undermined already from school. Everyone knows about the dangers of smoking, but not all students can refuse it. Smoking affects, first of all, the nervous system, mental activity, leads to a morning cough and discomfort in the heart and digestive tract.
The use of alcoholic beverages causes irreparable harm to the health of children. Alcohol causes a disturbance of cerebral circulation, destroys the vessels of the brain and causes disturbances in mental development. Communicate with children, talk about the dangers of smoking and alcohol. This will save your child's health and protect you from undesirable consequences.