[Planning and assessing the activity of a school health service based on health and social indicators: the experience of Villeurbanne].
In 1998, the municipality of Villeurbanne decided to review its school health service in order to restructure and adjust its activity to better meet the needs of schools which had evolved and developed differently according to their areas of location. In view of the rarity of available information to measure the needs, an information system was built using a participatory and consensual approach. The system has been operational since the year 2000. It was evaluated in 2003 and then adapted according to the results. It has a variety of uses for planning purposes: to classify the schools according to their requirements, to plan the working time and schedules of the nurses, and to programme and evaluate specific actions. It also allows for mapping the health status of the pupils in Villeurbanne and to describe the service's activity. This article presents the design and construction of the information system and serves as a platform to debate the benefits and limitations of this approach in Villeurbanne.
Guerrier-Sagnes
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Ville de Villeurbanne, Direction de l'hygiène et de la santé publique.
Fortin
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Beynel-Mélinand
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