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Health and Illness Policy
Health Requirements
One of the goals of Head Start is to make sure your child is healthy and able to participate in all Head Start activities. For this reason, we have some health requirements that must be met to help us assess your child's health:
- Vision Test
- Hearing Test
- Immunizations
- Dental Exam and Treatment
- Physical Exam including:
- Blood Pressure
- Urinalysis
- Hemoglobin (test for anemia)
- Height and Weight
If we have any concerns about your child's health, we will ask you to follow up with a doctor. Please help us by making these appointments as soon as possible. These should be completed before December 1st. We need your help in meeting the health needs of your child.
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When is a Child Too Sick
to Attend Head Start
At Head Start, we want to protect the health and safety of all children and staff in each classroom. For this reason, there may be times when your child is ill and should not come to class. Please review the following symptoms and and diagnoses of disease to know when to keep your child at home.
Symptoms:
- Fever above 101 degrees Fahrenheit
- Sore throat and/or uncontrolled coughing
- Difficulty breathing and/or wheezing
- Extremely tired or irritable
- Cold with yellow or green drainage from nose
- Diarrhea and/or vomiting: child can not return tot he Head Start classroom until it has been at least 24 hours since the last episode of diarrhea or vomiting
- Mouth or skin sores that are oozing
- Rash with fever or behavior change
Diagnoses:
- Pink Eye
- Head LIce
- Scabies
- Impetigo
- Strep Throat
- Chicken Pox
- Other infectious diseases
Bus personnel may ask you to keep your child at home if they feel your child is too sick to attend. If your child develops any of the above symptoms while in class, the teacher may call you to come and pick up your child.
Additional information about common diseases of children and when you must keep your child at home may be found on the "When Your Child is Too Sick to Attend" page in the Parent Handbook which is given to you at registration.
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Health Links
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
American Academy of Pediatrics: AAP is an organization of 60,000 pediatricians committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents and young adults.
American Cancer Society
American Council for Headache Education: ACHE is a nonprofit patient-health professional partnership dedicated to advancing the treatment and management of headache and to raising the public awareness of headache as a valid, biologically based illness.
American Dental Association
American Medical Association: This has current and past articles published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and American Medical News and others and is also a direct link to the AMA home page.
American Medical Association-Adolescent Health On-Line
American Public Health Association: APHA is the oldest and largest organization of public health professionals in the world, representing more than 50,000 members from over 50 occupations of public health.
Bright Futures: Bright Futures is a national health promotion initiative dedicated to the principle that every child deserves to be healthy and that optimal health involves a trusting relationship between the health professional, the child, the family, and the community as partners in health practice.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Since it was founded in 1946 to help control malaria, CDC has remained at the forefront of public health efforts to prevent and control infectious and chronic diseases, injuries, workplace hazards, disabilities, and environmental health threats. Today, CDC is globally recognized for conducting research and investigations and for its action oriented approach. CDC applies research and findings to improve people's daily lives and responds to health emergencies-something that distinguishes CDC from its peer agencies.
Department of Health and Human Services: The United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. The department includes 300 programs and is the largest grant-making agency in the federal government.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA): the homepage for the foremost consumer protection agency. This is a division of the Department of Human Services and includes information on human drugs, toxicology, medical devices/radiologic health, medical products reporting, etc.
Foundation Fighting Blindness
Health Resources and Services Administration
Healthfinder: A gateway site to help consumers find health and human services information quickly. Healthfinder includes links to more than 1250 Web sites, including more than 250 federal sites and 1000 state, local, not-for-profit, university and other consumer health resources. Topics are organized in a subject index.
Healthy Child: Bimonthly magazine devoted to health and safety for childcare providers published with the American School Health Association.
Immunization: Answers frequently asked questions about childhood immunization, including current recommendations on what shots children need and when. (Requires Adobe Reader)
Indian Health Services (IHS)
Institute for Child Health Policy (ICHP): The Institute for Child Health Policy is a unique, multi-disciplinary academic unit of the University of Florida. Their work centers on issues of health and health care for children and youth. The Institute houses two separate but integrated divisions: one dedicated to research and evaluation, and one dedicated to policy and program affairs.
KidsHealth: KidsHealth is the largest and most visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. Created by The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media, the award-winning KidsHealth provides families with accurate, up-to-date, and jargon-free health information they can use.
Mammography: Listing of facilities providing mammography which are certified by the Food and Drug Administration as meeting baseline quality standards.
March of Dimes
Maternal Child & Health Bureau (MCHB)
MedicineNet.Com: Home page has an alphabetical index for searching for specific diseases, pharmaceuticals and even Poison Control Centers in other states.
Medline: The world's most extensive collection of published medical information, coordinated by the National Library of Medicine. Originally designed primarily for health professionals and researchers, Medline is also valuable for students and for those seeking more specific information about health conditions, research and treatment. Free access to MedlinePlus will provide direct Web links between Medline abstracts and the publishers of full-text articles.
Merck Manual: This publication lists various conditions and treatment options, plans, etc. There is also a home edition that uses less technical, everyday language.
National Cancer Institute: Provides up-to-date, accurate medical information on cancer. Also contains a directory of genetic counselors, physicians, geneticists and nurses who have expertise in counseling about familial risk and genetic testing for cancer.
National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health: NCEMCH provides national leadership to the maternal and child health community in three key areas--program development, education, and state-of-the-art knowledge--to improve the health and well-being of the nation's children and families.
National Health Policy Forum: The National Health Policy Forum seeks to inform the public policy process by helping participants-federal health policymakers in the legislative and executive branches and in congressional support agencies-engage in rigorous, constructive, and respectful dialogue.
National Institutes of Health: The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research. Helping to lead the way toward important medical discoveries that improve people's health and save lives, NIH scientists investigate ways to prevent disease as well as the causes, treatments, and even cures for common and rare diseases.
National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)
National Pediculosis Association: NPA is the only non-profit health and education agency dedicated to protecting children from the misuse and abuse of potentially harmful lice and scabies pesticidal treatments. As part of its mission, the NPA works to encourage our nation's health and child care professionals to adopt standardized head lice management programs in an effort to keep the children in school lice and nit free.
National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care: The National Resource Center is located at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado, and is funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, HRSA. The NRC's primary mission is to promote health and safety in out-of-home child care settings throughout the nation.
NIH Health Information Page: Provides a single access point to the consumer health information resources of the National Institute of Health, including the NIH Health Information Index, NIH publications and clearinghouses and the Combined Health Information Database.
North Dakota Department of Health
North Dakota Department of Human Services
North Dakota Division of Maternal & Child Health
North Dakota SCHIP Office
North Dakota School for the Deaf Parent-Infant Program (for deaf and hard of hearing children)
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Parents Guide to Childhood Immunizations
State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Travelers Information: Provides international travelers with current information on disease outbreaks and health issues. It includes information on recommended vaccinations, and links to CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program for sanitation inspections on international cruise ships.
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Lead Screening Information
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