Identify and discuss the eight components of a comprehensive school health program.

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1. Health Education: providing students with accurate, developmentally appropriate information and skills to make healthy decisions and promote lifelong health.

2. Mental Health Promotion: recognizing mental health as an essential part of overall health; promoting social-emotional learning and skills for stress management, conflict resolution, communication, problem solving; fostering supportive school environments that prevent violence and substance misuse; identifying mental health issues early on and connecting those in need with services.

3. Nutrition Services: providing safe access to nutritious foods throughout the day through cafeteria meals, school breakfast/lunch programs as well as classroom nutrition education activities.

4. Physical Activity Programs: offering physical activity options that meet the needs of all students while teaching them how to stay active throughout their lives by integrating physical activity into curriculum instruction when possible; organizing physical activity events or programs before/after school or during lunch hour; modeling staff engagement in physical activity whenever possible.

5. Health Services: increasing access to healthcare by connecting families with community resources; providing basic first aid services in case of minor illnesses or injuries such as cuts, scrapes etc.; requiring medical clearance from parents prior to any strenuous sports activities;; offering vision screenings for students in grade levels where deemed necessary per state laws (i.e kindergarten); ensuring proper immunization records are kept up-to-date according to state law requirements so that no student is excluded from school due lack of immunization records.