Why School-Based Health Care?
• Students spend one-third of their waking hours at school. • Transportation is not a barrier to receiving health care. • Students do not miss school, reducing absenteeism. • Accessible health care enhances academic and social success. • Working parents do not have to miss work to take their child to the doctors. • The focus is on prevention, reducing community-wide medical care costs. • School-based health care provides “one-stop health care” for all Roanoke adolescents’ health care needs.
