Identify the objectives of the School Health Services from the following:
1. Ensuring education of handicapped children at home.
2. Improving the general nutrition of the child.
3. Preventing diseases, especially infections.
4. Early diagnosis and treatment of various conditions.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
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Answer: B
The objectives are 2, 3 and 4.
School health services aim to promote positive health, improve the nutrition of schoolchildren (for example through mid-day meals), prevent diseases, especially infections, through immunization and hygiene, and provide early diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of defects and illnesses through regular medical examinations.
Education of handicapped children at home is not an objective of the school health service, which works through the school. So the options containing 1 are wrong, and '3 and 4' leaves out nutrition.
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