Chapter III Health and Nutrition of Regulations on Promoting Students' Physical Fitness and Health in Jiangsu Province

Eighteenth local people's governments at all levels should include students in the basic medical insurance for urban residents or the new rural cooperative medical insurance.

Nineteenth health, education, human resources and social security administrative departments should jointly strengthen the monitoring of students' nutritional status, and establish and improve the student nutrition intervention mechanism.

Disease prevention and control institutions and related medical and health institutions shall designate special persons to guide school health work, provide preventive health care and other public health services, regularly supervise and monitor school food hygiene, drinking water hygiene and infectious disease prevention and control, and carry out immunization according to law, and the required expenses shall be included in the scope of public health funds.

Twentieth schools should incorporate health education into the teaching plan. Primary and secondary schools should offer health education courses, and institutions of higher learning (including higher vocational colleges) should offer health education elective courses or lectures, actively carry out health education such as disease prevention, scientific nutrition, health and safety, drug control and smoking ban, and anti-alcoholism, impart health knowledge, and cultivate students' healthy behaviors and habits.

Twenty-first boarding schools should set up clinics that have obtained the Practice License of Medical Institutions.

Non-boarding schools should be equipped with health professional and technical personnel or health teachers according to regulations.

Encourage schools to establish cooperative relations with medical and health institutions and do a good job in the prevention and treatment of student injury accidents and related diseases.

Twenty-second schools should organize health professionals or health teachers to do the following work:

(a) to formulate the school health care work plan and implementation plan;

(two) the establishment of student health records, responsible for student health management;

(three) the implementation of health education, actively carry out health publicity, cultivate students' good health behavior and habits;

(four) regular inspection of classrooms, dormitories, reading rooms and other public places, to carry out the prevention of common diseases, frequently-occurring diseases, endemic diseases and infectious diseases of students;

(five) to assist in the immunization of students;

(six) to improve the school's environmental hygiene, teaching hygiene, food hygiene, sports hygiene and labor hygiene;

(seven) to carry out primary medical care and first aid;

(eight) to organize and guide the work of student health workers and Red Cross teenagers;

(nine) to cooperate with the relevant departments to carry out safety and health supervision on various preventive, medical and health care activities of the school.

Twenty-third schools should do a good job in the prevention and control of public health emergencies such as infectious diseases, and establish and improve the corresponding reporting and emergency response mechanisms.

Twenty-fourth school teaching buildings, environmental noise, microclimate, lighting, ventilation, lighting and other environmental quality, as well as cultural and sports activities equipment, desks and chairs, etc., should meet the relevant national standards.

Twenty-fifth primary and secondary schools should teach students the knowledge and methods of scientific eye use, and organize students to do eye protection activities twice a day.

Primary and secondary schools should monitor students' eyesight twice every semester, correct students' incorrect reading and writing posture in time, control the time of using eyes at close range, improve lighting conditions and prevent students' eyesight from declining.

Twenty-sixth primary and secondary schools should limit students' concentrated study time at school, reduce students' academic burden and ensure students' necessary sleep time.

Primary school students should not spend more than six hours in school every day, junior high school students should not spend more than seven hours, and senior high school students should not spend more than eight hours.

Homework is not allowed in the first and second grades of primary school, and the total amount of homework written by students in other grades is controlled within one hour every day; The total amount of written homework for junior high school students every day is controlled within one and a half hours; The total amount of written homework for senior high school students should be controlled within two hours every day.

Article 27 The construction and facilities of school canteens shall meet the standards set by the state.

Schools should implement food safety laws and regulations, establish a food safety and health management system, and arrange special personnel to be responsible for the health and safety management of canteens. Employees in school canteens should have a health check-up once a year, and they can only engage in canteen work after obtaining a health certificate.

Twenty-eighth schools and families should provide nutritious meals for students, ensure students' balanced nutritional intake, and promote the healthy growth of students.

Relevant departments and units should strengthen the research and publicity of students' nutrition knowledge, and guide schools and parents to provide scientific and reasonable nutritious meals for students.

Twenty-ninth schools should establish and improve the health examination system for students, and organize students to have a health examination every year. Education administrative departments and schools should choose medical and health institutions that meet the requirements to undertake the physical examination of students.

The medical and health institutions undertaking the physical examination of students shall conduct individual and group health evaluation after the physical examination, and feed back the results of individual health examination and group health evaluation to students (parents), schools and education administrative departments, and put forward suggestions for improving the health status of students or further examination.

Schools should establish student health records. For the problems found in the students' physical examination, the school should promptly inform the parents of the students and cooperate with them to take corresponding intervention or preventive measures.

The cost of health examination for students in compulsory education stage is included in the compulsory education funding guarantee mechanism, and the cost of health examination for ordinary senior high school students is guaranteed by the government finance, while the cost of health examination for students in other non-compulsory education stages is arranged by the school according to the prescribed standards. The items, charging standards and safeguard measures of students' health examination are jointly formulated by the provincial administrative departments of education, human resources and social security, finance, price and health.

Thirtieth schools should cooperate with parents and society, according to the characteristics of students' physical and mental development, provide students with mental health education and psychological counseling, and give necessary care and guidance to students with behavioral deviations and psychological obstacles in time, so as to make students develop physically and mentally healthily.