[Healthy School network as a part of community information system]

Within the "Healthy School" preventive (health-educational) intervention project Healthy School Network was established to cover the whole country enveloping 13 schools in 11 places with the tendency to spread over Yugoslavia and include every single school in the country. In the Network numerous data about pupils, their families and schools have been produced. Information about pupils refer to their knowledge and behavior influencing health (nutrition, physical activity, smoking, alcohol consumption, etc.) and secondary socialization. Family is presented by data on general characteristics and relationship among the members, as well as by its living conditions. Schools have been described by information on general hygiene, facilities and human relationship. The main direct sources of information are pupils, parents and teachers, while the School Project Managers serve as indirect information sources. Data have been collected by the means of different forms (questionnaires) and routine project documentation (progress and annual reports) and stored in the data base at the Institute of Social Medicine. Some of these information have already been collected and processed by other information subsystems, while the greater number present the original contribution to the community information system. The potential users of these information are the related ministries, community administration, schools and health and social institutions in the local community.