Medical examination – a planned complex of medical actions for observation of the state of health of school students. The purpose of this action - timely identification of sick children and also prevention of incidence.
Every year school students undergo medical examination. Many children studying at schools have problems with health: - the wrong bearing, - a backbone curvature,
- deterioration in sight, - gastritises,
- headaches, etc. Parents not always manage to find out in time that their child is unhealthy. School medical examination detects the diseases at children with the subsequent purpose of treatment, and those at whom during survey the chronic diseases are detected are registered to the corresponding expert.
Complex survey
Such doctors as the surgeon, the neuropathologist, the orthopedist, the pediatrician, the stomatologist, for girls since fourteen years participate in school medical examination, the gynecologist is invited. Also, during medical examination take blood on the analysis of hemoglobin and glucose from children. Obligatory stages of survey is the fluorography, the cardiogram, ultrasonography of a thyroid gland and the general medical questioning.
By means of survey of the doctor can determine the suitable level of physical activity for the child at physical education classes, if necessary, school students are distributed on medical groups. In the first (main) group include pupils with good health and normal physical development, in the second – children with weak physical training and also those to whom physical education class under special observation of the teacher is shown. There is also the third (special) group where children with the expressed diseases are engaged. The special course of medical physical education as they are not able to implement the usual curriculum is developed for them.
Advantages of medical examination at school
Under the law the medical examination in educational institutions is carried out free of charge. Carrying out surveys in school is convenient - children can receive medical care, without leaving institution walls, without distracting from study process. Health workers pay attention at once to a large number of children as they are not distracted by other patients if it happened in policlinic. Practice shows that at school medical examination children communicate with the doctor more quietly in a familiar situation when schoolmates and peers are near. Shortcomings: - at medical examination there are no parents, and the child himself can not always adequately answer questions of the doctor and read the complaints; - parents learn medical recommendations not from the doctor, and from the school nurse or the child, information is quite often distorted. It is important to parents to refuse medical examination of children as in time the performed inspection prevents development of serious diseases never.