WHO guideline on school health services: Web Annex A. Compendium

Overview

This compendium is a supplement to the WHO guideline on school health services. It lists each of the 87 interventions that were identified by the Guideline Development Group (GDG) as essential or suitable for inclusion within school health services (SHS), either everywhere or in certain geographic areas only. Each intervention is shown with its GDG categorization, as well as its WHO source category and supporting WHO procedures or activities (PAs).

The sources cited in this compendium are from a literature review of global WHO publications focused on health service procedures or activities for 5–19-year-olds. For this review, a search was conducted through online WHO search engines, department website publication lists and other compilations of WHO recommendations. In total, 342 recent global WHO publications and WHO recommendation webpages were reviewed to assess their potential relevance for SHS, of which 149 publications had content used to produce a master list of 531 health service PAs that are relevant to 5–19-year-olds.