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With school budgets seeming to be inexorably contracting, and with welfare reform looming, the future of school health programs is both important and uncertain. Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld begins by clearly defining the key issues in the debate and outlining the history of school health programs. She then turns to more contemporary examples of school health care delivery, with a special emphasis on the Arizona model—crucial due to its being the first state to go to a managed care Medicaid program. Finally, she theorizes on the likely future of school health care in the light of proposed changes to Medicaid and other welfare initiatives. Schools and the Health of Children will be of great interest to scholars and professionals in the area of public health, educational administration, as well as social work and public policy.
Introduction
Introduction
The health of children is one of those topics about which people have strong reactions. In theory, most Americans are fond of individual children and believe that children have a greater claim for help from society and for a share in the resources of the greater society than do many other groups. Although people will articulate these ideas in both public and private conversations, the social situation of many children is not indicative of a country that places special value on children. Children are the age group in American society most likely to live in poverty. Current estimates are that 21.9% of U.S. children live in poverty. Many children live in even worse situations than poverty statistics indicate. Though estimates of the homeless vary, ...
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