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Children across India are back to school for in-person classes after an unnecessarily prolonged and arguably unwarranted closure (especially for the last year) in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is time for concrete policy measures and actions that target schoolchildren. On the education front, while there has been some discourse on ‘learning recovery’, there is an urgent need to factor in the health needs of schoolchildren. One of the reasons school health services receive inadequate policy attention is because healthcare needs are often equated with medical care needs. Though school-age children have a relatively low sickness rate (and thus limited medical care needs), they do have a wide range and age-specific health needs that are linked to unhealthy dietary habits, irregular sleep, lack of physical activity, mental, dental, and eye problems, sexual behavior, and the use of tobacco and other substances, addiction, etc. Then, the health knowledge acquired, and lifestyle adopted at the school-going age are known to stay in adulthood and lay the foundations of healthy behavior for the rest of their life. For example, scientific evidence shows that tobacco cessation efforts are far more successful if started in school.

The first documented record of school health services in India goes back to 1909 when the then presidency of Baroda began the medical examination of schoolchildren. Later, the Sir Joseph Bhore committee, in its 1946 report, observed that school health services in India were underdeveloped and practically non-existent. In 1953, the secondary education committee of the Government of India recommended comprehensive policy interventions dealing with school health and school feeding programs. The result was programmatic interventions, led by a few selected States, that mostly focused on nutrition. However, school health has largely remained a token service.