Health of School-aged Children

A course organised by the Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCL Institute of Child Health

This five-day course will be relevant to doctors and nurses working with school age children and to a range of other health and social care professionals involved with this age group.

Developed with reference to the Healthy Child Programme: from 5-19 years old (Department of Health 2009), topics covered include:

• An overview of the health of school aged children; epidemiology of common
causes of morbidity and mortality in school aged children and adolescents
• The policy context for services for children, young people and their families
• Health inequalities
• Healthy schools
• Health needs assessment and screening
• Promoting healthy weight and activity
• Emotional health, psychological wellbeing and mental health in the school
setting
• Adolescent mental health
• Working and communicating effectively with adolescents
• Health promotion
• Specific issues such as reproductive health and teenage pregnancy, self harm, substance use and misuse, healthy weight and exercise and interventions for prevention and management
• The role of school health services
• Addressing the needs of children, young people and families with additional
needs
• Provision of effective young people friendly services
• Supporting parents.

The module can be taken on its own, either as an assessed qualification or, on a non-assessed basis, to support continuing professional development. The assessed module carries 15 credits which can be used to build to a UCL ICH MSc in Community Child Health.

Participants may also attend single days.

Module Fee: £500
Module Fee with assessment: £600

Contact: Carole Davies, MSc Course Administrator
Tel. 020 7905 2107
Email: c.davies@ich.ucl.ac.uk

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