School health centers improve grades
Posted by on February 20, 2011
Another sound investment
About 1,900 U.S. school-based health centers (SBHC) that deliver comprehensive healthcare to students are improving academic success, according to the National Assembly on School-Based Health Care; African-American male SBHC users were three times more likely to stay in school than their peers who did not use an SBHC.
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