Abstract
Most schools have health programs and policies. Written or unwritten, consistent or inconsistent, these policies and programs affect the present and future welfare of all school personnel, as well as students, and the community.|The study reported here deals with the school health service areas of four midwestern states (Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Colorado) with particular reference to the school health programs of the large cities in each of the four states. Presented here is certain information of a statistical nature regarding health services in school systems and an evaluation of each program of the four selected cities. The study also shows that much still needs to be done in this field, and that an ideal school health program should be foremost in the minds of educators in every city of the United States. Much needs to be done in the United States if all our thirty million school children are to have adequate school health service programs.|One of the primary objectives of modem education is health. Health was named as the first of the seven cardinal objectives of education in the 1918 report of the commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education.