{"id":22407,"date":"2026-08-05T21:11:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T21:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/?p=22407"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:14:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:14:54","slug":"consumer-health-minute-student-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/consumer-health-minute-student-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Health Minute: Student Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping students healthy is vital to academic success.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing a little about health and various health conditions that may be affecting students\u2019 health can help teachers, administrators, and staff and parents understand how health can affect learning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Perhaps a child has been diagnosed with a chronic or fatal condition.<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps a child doesn&#8217;t have access to regular meals.<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps a child has experienced trauma.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These and many other health factors can contribute to poor academic and social experiences.<\/p>\n<h2>Resources<\/h2>\n<h3>MedlinePlus<\/h3>\n<p>What to learn more about various health conditions? Check out MedlinePlus learn more about various <a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/childrenandteenagers.html\">health topics associated with children and teens<\/a>. MedlinePlus also includes a health topic page on <a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/schoolhealth.html\">School Health<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>KidsHealth.org<\/h3>\n<p>Another great resource is <a href=\"https:\/\/kidshealth.org\/\">KidsHealth.org<\/a> from Nemours Children\u2019s Health, a healthcare system dedicated to healthcare, research and education. It includes sections for kids, for teens, for parents, and one for educators. The section for educators includes teacher guides to learn about health and the body. The other sections provide quality information about the health of children in English and Spanish, including audio.<\/p>\n<h3>healthychildren.org<\/h3>\n<p>The American Academy of Pediatrics\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthychildren.org\/English\/Pages\/default.aspx\">healthychildren.org<\/a> is a comprehensive resource of information covering a wide range of topics.<\/p>\n<h3>Additional Resources<\/h3>\n<p>But don\u2019t forget that many disease or event specific websites also may include information specific to school age children such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>American Diabetes Association\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/diabetes.org\/advocacy\/safe-at-school-state-laws\">Safe at School<\/a><\/li>\n<li>American Cancer Society\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/cancer\/childhood-cancer\/going-to-school-during-and-after-cancer-treatment.html\">Going to School During and After Cancer Treatment<\/a><\/li>\n<li>National Child Traumatic Stress Network is another great resource and has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nctsn.org\/trauma-informed-care\/creating-trauma-informed-systems\/schools\">section for schools<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping students healthy is vital to academic success. Knowing a little about health and various health conditions that may be affecting students\u2019 health can help teachers, administrators, and staff and parents understand how health can affect learning. Perhaps a child has been diagnosed with a chronic or fatal condition. Perhaps a child doesn&#8217;t have access&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/consumer-health-minute-student-health\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[457],"tags":[488,489],"class_list":["post-22407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-health-minute","tag-school-health","tag-student-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22409,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22407\/revisions\/22409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}